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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading cyber security platform provider of AI-powered, cloud-delivered solutions, announces the appointment of Ruma Balasubramanian as President for the Asia Pacific & Japan (APAC) region. Ruma succeeds Sharat Sinha who left earlier this year to take on another role in the industry. She will lead Check Point’s overall business across APAC, collaborating closely with sales, marketing, product engineering, and customer success teams. With her extensive experience in cloud and digital transformation, Ruma is set to drive Check Point’s growth through strategic partnerships and innovative, AI-powered security solutions.

COMPANY NEWS: A Rubrik Zero Labs report found that 66% of IT and security leaders report that data growth outpaces their ability to secure data and mitigate risk. Adversaries are noticing, increasing the sophistication of cyberattacks, and leveraging gaps in coverage to target critical data for destruction, theft, or extortion. As the volume of data continues to grow and exacerbate visibility challenges, organisations must find ways to manage and protect their constantly expanding data.

COMPANY NEWS:  Ricoh and its affiliates have been awarded the esteemed 'Gold Provider' Partner status in the Asia-Pacific region by Cisco, a worldwide leader in networking and security, marking a new chapter in the long-standing partnership between the two companies.

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Nadav Zafrir, renowned Cyber Security leader, will assume CEO role December 2024

Gil Shwed, Founder & CEO, will transition to Executive Chairman

COMPANY NEWS:  New SCW Trust Agent facilitates a Secure-by-Design approach for enterprises; equips security leaders with unparalleled visibility into their organisations’ software security posture.

Spending on switches deployed in AI back-end networks used to connect accelerated servers is forecast to approach US$80 billion over the next five years, nearly doubling the total data centre switch market opportunity, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Australian telco Optus has signed a multi-year partnership with American multinational digital technology company Cisco to strengthen the network security and data security services of Optus enterprise and business customers tackling complexities associated with hybrid workforces.

COMPANY NEWS: Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today revealed new research that shows how credentials, API tokens, and passkeys – collectively referred to as secrets – from organizations around the globe were exposed for years. By scanning the most popular 100 organisations on Github, which collectively includes more than 50,000 publicly accessible repositories, Aqua researchers found active secrets from open source organizations and enterprises such as Cisco and Mozilla providing access to sensitive data and software. The exposed secrets could lead to significant financial losses, reputational damage, and legal consequences.

AI data platform company Vast Data is collaborating with enterprise networking and security provider Cisco and tech giant Nvidia to offer enterprises an AI infrastructure coupled with an Ethernet-based AI fabric to handle large volumes of data at an exabyte scale.

Industry giants AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new industry standard called UALink enabling interconnection for data centre grade AI and HPC accelerators and rivaling software company Nvidia's NVLink.

COMPANY NEWS: Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new Nutanix AHV deployment options and programs to help customers fast-track infrastructure modernisation by reusing existing server hardware investments, while also adding more flexibility in deployment to meet different workload and cost management needs. Additionally, the company announced new capabilities in the Nutanix AHV hypervisor to strengthen resilience and support enterprise scale deployments, to help customers looking for a new virtualisation and containerisation platform.

Germany-based open source vendor SUSE has appointed technology and marketing veteran Pilar Santamaria as its new vice-president of AI.

Business solutions provider Spirit Business Centre has announced the launch of its “innovative new offer” aimed at empowering SMB partners to profitably sell collaboration solutions.

GUEST CASE STUDY: Noblecom Technology was established in 2008 in Malaysia and is a highly successful provider of building technology implementations.

With Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Observability Platform, customers have more flexibility and choice when it comes to tackling their most difficult security challenges.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, today announced the appointment of Jeff Reed who has taken on the organisation’s newly created role of chief product officer.

Leading advisory and IT solutions provider, Atturra, today announced that its managed services business has achieved Cisco Gold Provider status reinforcing the company’s ability to provide Australian enterprises and government agencies with technology solutions that enhance connectivity, efficiency, and optimise overall cybersecurity and network performance.

GUEST RESEARCH: An abundance of successful cyberattacks in the final quarter of 2023 resulted from threat actors leveraging known and exploitable vulnerabilities, according to Tenable, the exposure management company.

Communications technology group Singtel has signed three Memoranda of Understanding with Cisco, Fortinet, and Nokia, to provide quantum security solutions to enterprises through its Quantum Safe Network (QSN).

COMPANY NEWS: Twilio has welcomed two new leaders, reporting to CEO Khozema Shipchandler: Thomas Wyatt as president of segment and Inbal Shani as chief product officer of the Twilio Communications business unit.