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Mid East Info
21-05-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Kiteworks Survey Kiteworks Survey Finds Zero-Day Threats and Compliance Failures Are Forcing a Rethink of Vendor Selection
Kiteworks, which empowers organisations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and use of private data, today revealed compelling evidence for its market growth through findings from the Data Security and Compliance Buyer Behavior Survey. The study, conducted by Centiment, demonstrates why regulated industries are gravitating toward the company's Private Data Network as their solution of choice for mission-critical security and compliance challenges. Zero-Trust Data Exchange The Data Security and Compliance Buying Behavior Survey reveals that security is the dominant factor in vendor selection decisions. This focus on security comes at a critical time, as Google's 2024 Zero-Day Exploitation Analysis Report found that 44% of zero-day vulnerabilities targeted enterprise data exchange systems, such as Managed File Transfer (MFT) platforms. Kiteworks' Zero-Trust Data Exchange architecture directly addresses these vulnerabilities by ensuring that all data exchanges are authenticated, encrypted, and monitored – regardless of the communication channel or endpoint. Compliance Certifications: A Critical Decision Factor The survey clearly demonstrates that organisations are increasingly prioritising regulatory compliance capabilities when selecting vendors, with 31% of respondents identifying compliance as a decisive factor in their final vendor selection. This focus is driven by the need to navigate complex regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, the EU Data Act, and the EU AI Act, effective September 2025. The importance of compliance is further highlighted by several key findings: 56% of respondents rate security certifications as 'extremely important' during the vendor discovery phase. More than half struggle to obtain adequate security information during vendor evaluations. 63% of respondents actively seek detailed security and compliance information before even engaging with potential vendors. Nearly one-quarter reject vendors over security concerns often tied to compliance failures. Kiteworks addresses these pain points with a robust compliance framework, including FedRAMP Moderate Authorized, FedRAMP High Ready, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and IRAP validations, ensuring seamless adherence to global standards. Compliance and Emerging Threats Require Unified Solutions As threats continue to evolve, the need for unified compliance solutions becomes even more critical. This trend aligns with the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, which shows third-party breaches have doubled to 30%, particularly through attacks on legacy file sharing and transfer solutions. Kiteworks' own annual survey reinforces this concern, finding nearly 60% of organisations lack comprehensive governance tracking and controls for their third-party data exchanges. Meanwhile, vendor reputation and stability remain key factors, with nearly two-thirds of respondents prioritising these attributes during the vetting process, including 30% indicating vendor stability is a high priority. Integration Capabilities Enhance Value While security and compliance form the foundation of vendor selection, the survey reveals that practical implementation concerns also heavily influence buying decisions. Seamless integration capabilities prove critical for customer satisfaction and long-term success, with 42% of survey respondents identifying integration capabilities as a key value driver. The importance of this factor is further emphasised by the 39% of respondents who reported eliminating potential vendors from consideration specifically due to inadequate integration capabilities. Organisations considering Kiteworks benefit from its comprehensive integration capabilities: Enterprise Authentication & Security Integration: Seamless connectivity with LDAP/Active Directory, single sign-on solutions, SIEM platforms, Splunk, HSM, and other security tools for comprehensive identity management and threat detection Productivity Suite & Legacy System Support: Deep integration with Microsoft Office, Outlook, G Suite, SharePoint, internal file shares, and legacy systems to maintain user productivity while enforcing security controls Automation & Administration: No-code MFT automation capabilities and centralised management through a single administrative console, reducing complexity while maintaining regulatory compliance across the entire data communication ecosystem API Extensibility: Comprehensive REST API and SCIM support for custom integration development and automated workflows 'Customers demand solutions that deliver robust security and compliance without sacrificing usability or integration capabilities,' says Tim Freestone, Chief Marketing Officer at Kiteworks. 'The survey confirms what we hear directly from our customers in regulated industries – that organisations need a unified approach to private data security that addresses the full spectrum of security threats while simplifying compliance and seamlessly integrating with existing workflows. This is precisely why our Private Data Network continues to be the preferred choice for organisations that can't afford to compromise on data protection.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Warren Tells IRS Nominee Billy Long He Shouldn't Be 'Within 1,000 Miles' Of Agency
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) didn't mince words during Tuesday's confirmation hearing for Billy Long, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next commissioner of the IRS. 'You shouldn't be within 1,000 miles of the directorship of the IRS' if you can't answer basic questions, Warren told Long after he refused to specify that, under his leadership, he wouldn't let Trump direct the IRS to start or stop an audit into any taxpayer. After telling Warren he doesn't 'intend to let anybody direct me to start an audit for political reasons,' she asked him if that included the president of the United States. Long offered a complex answer. 'They're not going to tell me what to do. I can't speak for others,' Long replied. 'There's other agents at the IRS that you're talking about, but I'm telling you what I don't want to have happen to my IRS.' Growing visibly frustrated, Warren accused him of wanting to 'sit there and dance around' her questions about the matter. 'Mr. Long, you'd have a lot more credibility if you just say, 'Yes, it's clear that the statute makes it illegal for the president to direct the IRS vis-à-vis any particular taxpayer,'' she continued. Warren also got fed up when Long refused to say, in his own words, that the president cannot tell the IRS to change an organization's nonprofit status ― as Trump is attempting to dowith Harvard. Long dodged Warren's questioning, saying Trump 'wouldn't do that' but that he'd 'have to go to the lawyers at the IRS' to find the answer. The closest he got to answering her was by reading the text of the law out loud, prompting Warren to ask him again: 'All right, so is it illegal?' Long once again offered a nonanswer. 'I'm gonna follow the law, and if that's the law, yes,' he said. After more back and forth, Warren ripped into him. 'Why are you not having the answer? You've had three weeks to consult with lawyers. The statute is about as clear as plain English,' she said. 'I want to make sure that you understand what the law says,' she continued. 'If you think follow the law means you just get to make it up on the spot, then bud, you don't get to be the IRS commissioner.' Long is a Trump loyalist and former Republican congressman from Missouri. Democrats have been highly critical of Long's work as a tax adviser who encouraged businesses to look into a pandemic-era employee retention tax credit ― a program that's been subject to massive fraud and cost the government billions of dollars. Trump Tells IRS To Revoke Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status: Reports Trump Is Starting To Throw Out Federal Union Contracts Trump Admin Plans To End The IRS Direct File Program For Free Tax Filing, AP Reports
Toronto Star
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Star
Can the Maple Leafs recover from Game 5 embarrassment? We've certainly seen this curdle before
Florida has the edge. Toronto is on the ledge. Actually, maybe free-falling halfway down to that splatter on the pavement already. The Maple Leafs are staring down into the abyss of playoff elimination. How the heck did they get here, trembling on the brink and embarrassed to the gills, rag-dolled 6-1 at home? And the single goal came with 1:06 left in regulation. By the end, the gruesome end, this game had become so dirty that it should have been viewed on Pornhub. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The second round of the Atlantic Division playoffs was never going to be a walk in the park for either team. But now it's turned into a perp walk for the Leafs. Booked for blowing a two-games-to-none lead over the Florida Panthers. Without the stellar goaltending required to bail them out. And with the playoff-shrinking Auston Matthews — six shots in Game 5 Wednesday night, firing blanks again — and the playoff-shrivelling Mitch Marner unable to muscle this all-important game, arguably the most important game in their playoff careers, into submission. Nothing short of a disgrace, frankly. Rolling File Maple Leafs come out flat in pivotal Game 5 — and Panthers take control of series By now, Craig Berube probably knows what Sheldon Keefe must have felt like. 'The way that they play, I think that we just fed into what makes them successful,'' Matthews said afterward, not looking particularly stricken by the outcome, but then we've hardly ever seen a glimpse of the captain unmasked. 'They competed harder, more puck battles. That's the game. I think it's really as simple as that.'' But how can he reckon with that performance, given the rotten playoff history of this team and their to-a-man assurance that everything had changed: the lineup, the resilience, the annealing scar tissue? 'I don't think there's really any excuse or explanation,'' Matthews said. 'The only thing we can do is regroup and reset. We've got to win a game to keep our season alive.'' Good luck with that. After dropping a pair in Sunrise, Fla., the Leafs returned to the warm embrace of Scotiabank Arena only to come down with a case of the shivers, too easy prey for the much hungrier Panthers, who have completed their restoration — retransformation — into defending Stanley Cup champions mode. Rolling File The Maple Leafs didn't just lose two games in Florida, they let the Panthers rediscover their game They were staying at an oceanside hotel and some among the group spoke of the restorative va… In command and in control, which is pretty much where everybody expected the Panthers to be this deep into the post-season. Before the Leafs, who haven't got past the post-season second stage in a generation, threw up a chimera of giant-killing scrim. Except they don't have a killer gene, not really, not even now, despite all the sinew and snot and blue-line bona fides that GM Brad Treliving has added to the squad. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW We've seen this curdle before. It all looks very familiar. Thought they had it out of their system? More fool you. While Joseph Woll turned back into a pumpkin, neck glowing red from the goal lamp rather than orange as Florida turned him inside out. While Sergei Bobrovsky is showing off his Vezina Trophy pedigree, finally. What are they made of, these Leafs? What can they salvage? What can they prove of themselves in Game 6 on Friday? Rolling File Leafs to welcome fans inside Scotiabank Arena for Friday's Game 6 in Florida The Toronto Maple Leafs will see a full house when they host the Florida Panthers in Game 5 … 'Some sloppy play, not hard enough working, gave them way too many opportunities around our net,'' Marner said. 'Nobody's happy about it. Time to reset, refocus, be ready for our flight tomorrow, go into Florida and win a hockey game.'' The Leafs had been whining throughout about how stingy the Panthers are, their heavy forecheck stifling zone exits from the Toronto end, chasing slivers of daylight in the neutral zone. But that's a close approximation of Toronto's game, too. The difference on this night was that Florida looked way more stable in their game plan and critically got scads more out of their sorties into the Toronto end. Toronto always felt a little bit in trouble, from puck drop, taking no advantage of an eager and raucous crowd puffing wind beneath their sails. William Nylander did have a Grade A scoring chance early but his shot grazed the top of the post. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Meanwhile, Woll was kept rather busy 200 feet away, looking steadfast. But a head-shaking sequence of events that developed off hesitancy and loose puck battles lost around the cage culminated in Florida's first goal. Matthews had won the defensive zone faceoff yet the Leafs never managed to manoeuvre the puck into safe space. Outmanned, the Panthers nevertheless came up with the puck off the boards three times within a matter of seconds before Aaron Ekblad pounced on the relay off a rebound, up and over Woll. Florida's defence corps is certainly getting its licks in. Dmitry Kulikov made it 2-0 off Scott Laughton's stick — a lot of that going on in this bouncy-bouncy series. A neutral-zone turnover end up in Toronto's net by Jesper Boqvist. Niko Mikkola, batting cleanup, beat Woll with a slapshot at 14:01 of the second. After a frozen Jake McCabe merely watched A.J. Greer skin Woll alive for a fifth time, the Toronto starter was lifted, mercifully, and Matt Murray dispatched to the goal ramparts. The Panthers just kept coming, Sam Bennett making it a half-dozen on the power play, before Nick Robertson finally got Toronto on the board. As ugly as it's ever been.
Winnipeg Free Press
08-05-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Yes, New Zealand still has more sheep than people. But humans are catching up
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country's scant human population has long been the subject of jokes aimed at New Zealanders abroad. It's true: The country is one of a handful in the world that's still home to more sheep than people. But humans are catching up, according to new figures released Tuesday. With a population of 23.6 million sheep and 5.3 million people, there are about 4.5 sheep for each New Zealander, government statistics agency data showed. That's down from 22 sheep per person in 1982, when farming sheep for meat and wool was New Zealand's biggest earner. Now, years of falling wool prices prompted by a global shift to synthetic fibers have led farmers to change what they do with their land, the sector's biggest lobby group said. FILE - Farmer Ross Turner feeds his sheep hay in his snow covered paddocks on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand, July 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Baker,File) A shrinking flock By land area, New Zealand is about the size of the United Kingdom, but it has a human population 13 times smaller than the U.K. That means there's plenty of room for sheep. For close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand's economy and numbers boomed — peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people. Before 'Lord of the Rings' brought waves of tourists to the country, images of green fields filled with placid sheep against backdrops of snow-capped mountains dominated the country's marketing abroad. But over years of decline for global wool prices since — and despite recent rallies — the national flock has steadily diminished. Now dairy holds the biggest share of New Zealand's agriculture and horticulture-dominant export market. Farmers try something new In 2023, Stats NZ, a government agency, said New Zealand in 2022 dipped below five sheep per person for the first time. The national flock had lost a million more sheep in Tuesday's figures, which recorded livestock numbers as of June 2024. Toby Williams, a spokesperson for sector lobby group Federated Farmers, said sheep farmers have switched to more lucrative pursuits — dairy, or the conversion of land from farming to pine forestry in order to sell carbon offsets. 'If I'm really honest, the wool industry is almost at that tipping point, if not already there, of not having a wool industry anymore,' he said. Winnipeg Free Press | Newsletter Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Sign up for The Warm-Up Measures to bolster wool The government has drawn up measures intended to slow the decline, including an announcement in 2024 that they will place limits on the scale of farmland that can be converted to carbon forestry. New government procurement guidelines launched in April urge the use of New Zealand wool products — such as carpets and insulation — in newly constructed or refurbished public buildings. But those measures are not expected to halt declining sheep numbers. Some sheep-farming countries are recording similar trends. New Zealand's closest neighbor Australia — the source of most of the sheep jokes about New Zealanders — is also home to more sheep than people, but the national flock is shrinking there too. The gap is slimmer: There are about three sheep per Australian.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Australians urged to claim $17.8 billion in lost superannuation after ATO pays out $502 million
Aussies could be missing out on an extra cash boost to their superannuation if they don't claim or find their missing money. (Source: Getty) Australians are being urged to check if they have extra superannuation accounts lying around gathering dust. You might have unwittingly signed up for an account when you started a new job years ago, and it could provide a nice cash boost in retirement. Thankfully, that money isn't out of reach, and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has been helping people find their unclaimed super. Last year alone, it paid $502 million into bank accounts across the country. "Don't miss out," the tax office said. RELATED What is unclaimed and lost superannuation? Unclaimed or lost super is the money that sits in an account that isn't your main one. If your superannuation is lost, it means your fund has lost contact with you, and the funds stay with them. If it's unclaimed (also called ATO-held super), then the cash has been transferred to the ATO and is waiting to be put in the right place. You might have moved house, changed jobs, switched phone numbers - whatever the case, you can't be reunited with the money unless you provide your most up-to-date details. The ATO estimated last year that there is around $17.8 billion in lost and unclaimed super waiting to be claimed. Even if you've retired and you think you have all your money, the ATO revealed there is around $471 million in unclaimed super belonging to people 65 and over. Do you have a story? Email How do I get it back? All your super accounts, including lost and ATO-held super, are displayed on ATO online services. The access this, you can log into myGov to have a look at what accounts are in your name or Tax File Number. From the top menu, you have to select Super, and then either:
