Overview of a Reinsurance Smart Contract Deployment on a Private or Public Ethereum Blockchain. This project was created and on the Nivaura Financial Instrument Issuance and Administration Engine.
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
Basic introduction in blockchain, smart contracts, permissioned ledgersKoen Vingerhoets
Presented during Blockchain Vlaanderen #7 on 20/04/2017, organised by Kunstmaan and Antwerp Management School.
The assignment: host a basic introduction into blockchain, share some insights on smart contracts and explain why financial institutions choose other ledgers than bitcoin.
My presentation prepared for the one-day national level workshop on "Blockchain Technologies" organised by the Department of Information Technology, Academy of Maritime Education and Training. The presentation covers the definition, classification, components, structure and working of ethereum and bitcoin blockchains.
Slideware I used for the 10 minute talk on the FinTech Belgium Summit on 14 December 2017.
Why are financial institutions able to scale blockchain? Imho, it's because we know and pick up liability, regulations and governance. Alas, that only works well in private permissioned ledgers.
The question to solve in the future: how to manage the scaling? When projects run on a shared distributed infrastructure, how do you align updates, avoid rogue code,... Keep it all up and running, across consortia and technologies?
Blockchain in Banking Bucharest Meetup C1 “The fourth industrial revolution will be built upon a Machine-to-Machine economy with autonomous vehicles, 3D printer, robots, drones and IoT.
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
Basic introduction in blockchain, smart contracts, permissioned ledgersKoen Vingerhoets
Presented during Blockchain Vlaanderen #7 on 20/04/2017, organised by Kunstmaan and Antwerp Management School.
The assignment: host a basic introduction into blockchain, share some insights on smart contracts and explain why financial institutions choose other ledgers than bitcoin.
My presentation prepared for the one-day national level workshop on "Blockchain Technologies" organised by the Department of Information Technology, Academy of Maritime Education and Training. The presentation covers the definition, classification, components, structure and working of ethereum and bitcoin blockchains.
Slideware I used for the 10 minute talk on the FinTech Belgium Summit on 14 December 2017.
Why are financial institutions able to scale blockchain? Imho, it's because we know and pick up liability, regulations and governance. Alas, that only works well in private permissioned ledgers.
The question to solve in the future: how to manage the scaling? When projects run on a shared distributed infrastructure, how do you align updates, avoid rogue code,... Keep it all up and running, across consortia and technologies?
Blockchain in Banking Bucharest Meetup C1 “The fourth industrial revolution will be built upon a Machine-to-Machine economy with autonomous vehicles, 3D printer, robots, drones and IoT.
Price PRedictions for Crypto-Assets Using Deep LearningJesus Rodriguez
This slide deck provides an overview of the universe of prediction techniques applied to cryptocurrencies. The content covers emerging prediction models in the deep learning field and how they apply to crypto-assets.
Blockchain, smart contracts and use cases for the Legal HackersKoen Vingerhoets
On the 20th of June, the Brussels Legal Hackers invited @KristofVerslype and myself to explain #bitcoin, #blockchain and #smartcontracts. We added some use cases to spice up things. This set only contains my slides for the evening.
Kristof V. explained the basics of blockchain and smart contracts. Starting with the mechanics of bitcoin (introduced by the 2009 paper of Satoshi Nakamoto) he explains concepts of pseudonymisation, encryption, blockchain, mining, and distribution. After skimming high-level through some use cases he moves to "(smart) contracts", using the example of an auction.
Link to examples of "smart contracts": https://dapps.ethercasts.com
Link to the event follow-up page: https://www.meetup.com/Brussels-Legal-Hackers/messages/boards/thread/50920056
Legal hackers: https://www.meetup.com/Brussels-Legal-Hackers
Today, blockchain technology doesn't need to be implemented. A word that once was foreign has now earned accolades from individuals across the globe. This technology is being talked about by every business and investor. Blockchain started its journey as an underlying Bitcoin exchange technology, and it has gained so much popularity over the years. Everyone speaks about Blockchain, from students to working professionals; but what makes Blockchain so attractive is that you need to know the concepts of Blockchain technology for this.
Blockchain @ ArenA Live (Knight Moves - 26 October)Koen Vingerhoets
"A couple of years ago Bitcoin revolutionised the way we think about money transactions and the economic systems around it. The technology behind it - Blockchain - has only started to show its potential, and today it is used for all kinds of decentralised transactions and systems. Safer contracts for house ownership in troubled regions, easier ways to rent equipment from our local government, more secure solutions for connecting devices, .. The endless possibilities challenge us to rethink long-lasting paradigms and craft all kinds of unique services and experiences. Come discover it all with us in the ARENA!" (from https://www.arena.live)
In my slides, I highlight a few facts which counter popular bitcoin beliefs. I explain why banks pursue private permissioned ledgers and showcase some projects we're running at the moment.
This presentation takes the viewer through the basics of block chain concepts, its evolution and why it is a paradigm shift.
It also explores the ways in which the block chain concept can be put to use and how it has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses are conducted today.
Key takeaways
Idea of Blockchain.
The technology behind Blockchain.
Why it is a paradigm shift.
How it may be put to use in different industries.
Slides from my recent talk about Smart Contracts at the SVIA (Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator) Blockchain Bootcamp (http://sviaccelerator.com/insurtech-bootcamp-block-chain-01/). Professional edited video to come but not available yet. More about blockchain available at www.blockchaing.org and @audsinthecity (Twitter)
Blockchain: Definitions, Use Cases & ChallengesITU
Major application areas of blockchain, major functional characteristics and their variation across application areas, example use cases and fundamental security and trust mechanisms upon required within a compliant blockchain, across blockchains and around blockchains.
Author : Sian Jones, Chief of Staff at Credits, Head of European Digital Currency & Blockchain Technology Forum
Blockchain Projects - Core Pillars of Shipping Product, Feb 2018🔗Audrey Chaing
Thinking about building a blockchain project? What are the top areas of concern to ensure a successful ICO? Learn from founders and investors, lawyers, engineers, and marketing experts. From a talk given at Team Block Society.
BlockChain Strategists is the first French consulting company dedicated to BlockChain & Crypto-economies Strategies, organizations and governance models.
We are convinced BlockChain value generation is tightly linked to a deeper understanding of blockchain specificities and DNA: Internet of value, Trusted ecosystems, economic horizontalisation and peer to peer models, crypto-economies.
Master these specificities unleashes capacity to go beyond experimentations with a middle and long term roadmap, generating value via new products & services go to market, and enhanced economic models (clustering, fraud management, traceability).
Operational efficiency is questioned due to current offering dispersion and apparent immaturity. Our value added is to assist in building IT Strategy filtering technologies based on their respective business coverage and proven credentials.
At BlockChain Strategists, we make the bridge between Digital Strategic Consulting and BlockChain market play, to become YOUR partner in this upcoming digital disruption
Price PRedictions for Crypto-Assets Using Deep LearningJesus Rodriguez
This slide deck provides an overview of the universe of prediction techniques applied to cryptocurrencies. The content covers emerging prediction models in the deep learning field and how they apply to crypto-assets.
Blockchain, smart contracts and use cases for the Legal HackersKoen Vingerhoets
On the 20th of June, the Brussels Legal Hackers invited @KristofVerslype and myself to explain #bitcoin, #blockchain and #smartcontracts. We added some use cases to spice up things. This set only contains my slides for the evening.
Kristof V. explained the basics of blockchain and smart contracts. Starting with the mechanics of bitcoin (introduced by the 2009 paper of Satoshi Nakamoto) he explains concepts of pseudonymisation, encryption, blockchain, mining, and distribution. After skimming high-level through some use cases he moves to "(smart) contracts", using the example of an auction.
Link to examples of "smart contracts": https://dapps.ethercasts.com
Link to the event follow-up page: https://www.meetup.com/Brussels-Legal-Hackers/messages/boards/thread/50920056
Legal hackers: https://www.meetup.com/Brussels-Legal-Hackers
Today, blockchain technology doesn't need to be implemented. A word that once was foreign has now earned accolades from individuals across the globe. This technology is being talked about by every business and investor. Blockchain started its journey as an underlying Bitcoin exchange technology, and it has gained so much popularity over the years. Everyone speaks about Blockchain, from students to working professionals; but what makes Blockchain so attractive is that you need to know the concepts of Blockchain technology for this.
Blockchain @ ArenA Live (Knight Moves - 26 October)Koen Vingerhoets
"A couple of years ago Bitcoin revolutionised the way we think about money transactions and the economic systems around it. The technology behind it - Blockchain - has only started to show its potential, and today it is used for all kinds of decentralised transactions and systems. Safer contracts for house ownership in troubled regions, easier ways to rent equipment from our local government, more secure solutions for connecting devices, .. The endless possibilities challenge us to rethink long-lasting paradigms and craft all kinds of unique services and experiences. Come discover it all with us in the ARENA!" (from https://www.arena.live)
In my slides, I highlight a few facts which counter popular bitcoin beliefs. I explain why banks pursue private permissioned ledgers and showcase some projects we're running at the moment.
This presentation takes the viewer through the basics of block chain concepts, its evolution and why it is a paradigm shift.
It also explores the ways in which the block chain concept can be put to use and how it has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses are conducted today.
Key takeaways
Idea of Blockchain.
The technology behind Blockchain.
Why it is a paradigm shift.
How it may be put to use in different industries.
Slides from my recent talk about Smart Contracts at the SVIA (Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator) Blockchain Bootcamp (http://sviaccelerator.com/insurtech-bootcamp-block-chain-01/). Professional edited video to come but not available yet. More about blockchain available at www.blockchaing.org and @audsinthecity (Twitter)
Blockchain: Definitions, Use Cases & ChallengesITU
Major application areas of blockchain, major functional characteristics and their variation across application areas, example use cases and fundamental security and trust mechanisms upon required within a compliant blockchain, across blockchains and around blockchains.
Author : Sian Jones, Chief of Staff at Credits, Head of European Digital Currency & Blockchain Technology Forum
Blockchain Projects - Core Pillars of Shipping Product, Feb 2018🔗Audrey Chaing
Thinking about building a blockchain project? What are the top areas of concern to ensure a successful ICO? Learn from founders and investors, lawyers, engineers, and marketing experts. From a talk given at Team Block Society.
BlockChain Strategists is the first French consulting company dedicated to BlockChain & Crypto-economies Strategies, organizations and governance models.
We are convinced BlockChain value generation is tightly linked to a deeper understanding of blockchain specificities and DNA: Internet of value, Trusted ecosystems, economic horizontalisation and peer to peer models, crypto-economies.
Master these specificities unleashes capacity to go beyond experimentations with a middle and long term roadmap, generating value via new products & services go to market, and enhanced economic models (clustering, fraud management, traceability).
Operational efficiency is questioned due to current offering dispersion and apparent immaturity. Our value added is to assist in building IT Strategy filtering technologies based on their respective business coverage and proven credentials.
At BlockChain Strategists, we make the bridge between Digital Strategic Consulting and BlockChain market play, to become YOUR partner in this upcoming digital disruption
As per digital guarding system mechanism and model design by Banglalink, our technical department analyzed and lists for hardware devices. This costing represents hardware costing and valuation of replacement of human guard with digital guard. Listed Services are:01. Security Surveillance System development and Installation for BTS02. Software Development for Central Monitoring Cell03. App Development for Individual User monitoring cell
04. Security Surveillance Monitoring and Data Processing 05. Support and Maintenance
Blockchain investors have it really tough. Their management teams need to take some really "techy" cryptocurrency concepts and make them super-simple for stakeholders to understand.
We cut through the noise and helped our clients focus on what's most important: who benefits, how, and why? With a clear and cohesive story, this business showed its true colors - a crystal-clear value proposition.
Government contractors are under more scrutiny by the DCAA to effectively manage their contracts and stay compliant in a very competitive environment. The challenge for government contractors is adhering to the DCAA regulatory environment while maintaining profitability on your contracts. Understanding the regulatory environment is critical to running profitable contracts that comply with the changing landscape of the DCAA, FAR and CAS regulations. Accounting for key details of a project or contract, including measuring the degree of project completion, remains a huge challenge for government contractors. Join the Raffa Technology team for an update on the regulatory landscape and the best practices for keeping your organization DCAA compliant.
Outsourcing and Procurement: The Hot Points and PitfallsJon Hansen
eWorld Purchasing & Supply Conference
Day 1 - September 28th, 2010
10:20 to 10:50 AM Outsourcing and Procurement: The Hot Points and Pitfalls
Overview:
On paper, outsourcing holds significant potential for delivering much-needed efficiency gains and cost savings. But it can also present a legal minefield for procurement departments and getting the contract right from the outset is one of the most significant factors for realising these benefits. This information-packed briefing explains the key considerations for a successful outsourcing contract, including: defining project scope, employment issues & TUPE, intellectual property rights, agreeing service levels, benchmarking, reporting & audit rights, liability, data protection, confidentiality & Freedom of Information, dispute resolution, duration, termination and exit management.
Speaker:
Debbie Venn, Associate at asb law LLP
2017 07-26 Demystify the Government Contracting Challenges and Opportunities ...Raffa Learning Community
At the heart of every government contractor is a business system and effective cost structure that simplifies business process and improves productivity while supporting regulatory compliance. The ideal system focuses on making the system work for your business model and processes to keep you competitive in a cost sensitive environment.
Join industry experts from Raffa and JAMIS as we deliver insights and updates on effective indirect rate cost structures and 10% de minimis under the OMB Uniform Guidance, as well as introduce you to JAMIS Prime Cloud ERP, intuitive easy to maintain software designed for government contractors.
Digital Retail Africa 2023 hosted by IT News Africa - Carrie Peter speaks on Balancing User Experience and Security Compliance at Scale at the Digital Retail Africa 2023 conference. #retailtech #ecommerce #customerexperience #onlineshopping #securitycompliance
BGC Partners Limited Tokyo: DISCLAIMERS AND LEGAL INFORMATIONRad Arnold
To view BGC Partners, Inc.’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including annual (10-K), quarterly (10-Q) and currents reports (8-K), proxy statements (DEFA 14A) and registration statements (S-1, S-3, S-4, S-8, prospectuses, etc.) , please access the following link: http://ir.bgcpartners.com/financial-reports-filings/sec-filings/BGC-Filings/default.aspx
This webinar explains the many facets of Dodd-Frank rules and regulations and what companies, such as Producer companies, need to know now in order to be compliant. Our seasoned Compliance and Commodities experts describe exactly how the Dodd-Frank rules and rule changes affect Producer companies and what you can do now to mitigate these challenging risks:
--Producers’ Exposure to Dodd-Frank
--Clearing and End-User Exception
--Recordkeeping and Reporting
--Duties of SDs to Non-SD/MSPs – Counterparty Documentation
--Policies, Procedures, and Training
--Exchange Position Limits
--Achieving Compliance
Understanding Pre Qualification QuestionnairesLloyd Sewell
Tendering for contracts training offers a comprehensive training programme provided by small enterprise support specialists and public sector support specialists for small firms who wish to develop new revenue streams by tendering for public sector contracts.
Similar to Nivaura Reinsurance Contract Deployment 2016 (20)
Ethereum Classic and Crypto Monetary Policy London EventAvtar Sehra
Update on what has happened so far in the ETC Ecosystem and future developments. Overview of the planned ETC monetary policy proposal and why it matters
Fundonomy is a platform for project funding using a public immutable distributed ledger as an independent escrow/register system. Vision of Fundonomy is to make decentralized funding available and accessible to everyone.
Fundonomy will be coming first to Ethereum Classic.
Message from Arvicco, the Initiator of Ethereum Classic
"People self-select into communities based on values and principles.
Only those communities that clearly define their values and stick to them, come hell or high water, will be successful in the world of free and voluntary cooperation without coercion.
Welcome to Ethereum Classic, a blockchain community dedicated to the principles of openness, neutrality and immutability."
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and Grafana
Nivaura Reinsurance Contract Deployment 2016
1. Confidential – for emailed recipients only, please do not distribute
Reinsurance Platform Deployment
2. Platform for Life Cycle Management of Decentralised Smart
Financial Reinsurance Instruments
• Execute bilateral or multilateral deals
• Coordinate and agree terms with counterparties with full
audit trail
• Structure standard legal documentation automatically
• Deploy decentralized smart contracts to administer
structured reinsurance contracts
• Interface reinsurance platform with internal systems and
or external data providers to securely trigger smart
contract events
• Easy to use communication channels
• Structure transferable instruments and enable trading
between platform users, with custody managed on
blockchain
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2 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
3. Platform Has Full Communication and Alert Functionality
3 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
4. Easy to Use Live Contract Management
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4 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
5. New Contract Terms Coordinated and Agreed Online
5 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
6. Contract Coordination and Change History Recorded
6 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
7. Agreed Contract Legal Documents Structured
7 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
8. Bilateral or Multilateral Contract Issuance
8 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
9. Agreed Contracts Deployed and Administered using
Blockchain Smart Contracts
9 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
10. Administrator Has Control To Manage Functions, Addition of
New Instruments and Users
10 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
11. Instrument Types Supported
COLLATERAL
(Trust Account)
SPECIAL PURPOSE
VEHICLE
(SPV)
INVESTORS
ISSUER
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Reinsurer)
MMF Principal
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MMF : Money Market Fund Returns
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Trigger Event
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TS2
TS3
TS4
TS5
TS7
TS8
TS6
11 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
• TS1: Instrument Terms Coordinated
and Contract Structuring
• TS2: Investment Register Updated and
Funds Transferred
• TS3: Delivery of Certificates /
Confirmations to Investors and Issuers
• TS4: Recurrent Premium Payments to
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• TS5: Recurrent Premium Payment from
SPV to Investors
• TS6: Trigger Event Confirmation and
Value -> Go to TS8
• TS7: Principal Payment to Investor and
Contract Closure (End)
• TS8: Principal Payment to Issuer and
Contract Closure in Case of Event (End)
• Reinsurance Swaps
• Catastrophe Bonds
• Reinsurance Bouquet
• Tradable Insurance Policies
12. 12 Confidential – for emailed recipients only. Any use beyond consideration for intended proposal strictly prohibited.
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Document Generation and
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• Key data for feature selection
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Allianz Risk Transfer
Reinsurer B
Allianze Re
Allianz SE (Audit)
Reinsurer A
Allianz SE (Finance)
Allianz SE (Risk)
Reinsurer C
• All Allianz Internal Functions
can have a Blockchain Node,
so data can be shared
seamlessly without need for
reconciliations
• Each Reinsurer in the
contract can have a
standalone interface on the
Blockchain
• In the test case the
transactions sent to the
network won’t be
encrypted, but in a
production solution data
encryption would be
leveraged to ensure all data
transmitted to the network
and stored on the network
is confidential
Private Blockchain Deployment Between All Relevant Allianz
Functions and Key External Stakeholders
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