As organizations continue to navigate an evolving landscape, the demand for solutions supporting remote workforces and efficient application delivery has never been higher. Parallels RAS represents one such solution, and now that it can be purchased and deployed through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, additional options emerge for partners to extend this delivery to customers wishing to better deploy and manage their remote desktop and application infrastructure.

“With Parallels RAS now available in the Azure Marketplace, organizations worldwide can experience enhanced accessibility,” said Prashant Ketkar, Chief Product and Technology Officer for Parallels. “Listing Parallels RAS as a managed app alongside the existing BYOL options, simplifies the deployment process, making it easier for organizations to find, adopt, and integrate Parallels RAS directly from the Azure Marketplace. This move optimizes operations and removes barriers to adoption, ensuring a smoother and more efficient implementation.”

Deploying Parallels RAS within Azure Marketplace offers a significant advantage: complete automation. This streamlined process handles the initial setup of a full Parallels RAS infrastructure in the customer’s Azure subscription. It automates the deployment of infrastructure components, such as Connection Brokers, Secure Gateways, and Load Balancers, all customizable to the user’s preferences.

Furthermore, integration with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can automatically be configured. This allows organizations to jump start their Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, take advantage of all the benefits Azure Virtual Desktop provides, and get all the enhancements Parallels RAS bring to this platform.

During the automated deployment, a new pay-as-you-go license is configured, meaning there is no need to buy Parallels RAS licenses separately. With an Azure Marketplace deployment of Parallels RAS, organizations automatically pay for usage based on the highest concurrency each month, billed through Azure Marketplace.

Additionally, customers may be eligible to debit their existing Microsoft cloud commitment to purchase offers like this in Azure Marketplace. This alignment with existing cloud consumption commitments provides businesses with an incentive to leverage Parallels RAS on Microsoft Azure, optimizing IT spending while benefiting from its advanced features.

Tailored, private offers by partners

With Parallels RAS now available as a transactable solution within the Azure Marketplace, partners, such as Cloud Solution Providers, can now work together with Parallels to create unique offers for their customers and help promote revenue growth. A Multi-Party Private Offer (MPO) allows partners to create personalized offers, provide added value, add custom payouts, and sell directly to Microsoft customers with simplified selling through the marketplace.

A suggested private offer could be an extended offer with Parallels RAS as the secure application and desktop delivery solution, included with professional services for migration, consultancy and IT training from value-added partners.

Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp., said, “We welcome Parallels RAS to Azure Marketplace, where global customers can find, try, and buy from among thousands of partner solutions. Thanks to trusted partners like Parallels, Azure Marketplace is part of a cloud marketplace landscape predicted to grow revenue 500% from 2022 to 2025.

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

To learn more about Parallels RAS on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, visit the website here.

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PSPDFKit has announced its rebranding as Nutrient. Following a strategic investment from global software investor Insight Partners in 2021, the company acquired document processing technology from industry leaders ORPALIS, Aquaforest, and Muhimbi, along with the complementary workflow automation platform Integrify.

Having fully integrated the acquired companies, Nutrient is now able to deliver a cohesive portfolio of solutions that enhance, secure, and accelerate innovation in an organization’s document ecosystem. Documents have and continue to be the foundational medium for exchanging and recording knowledge. Modern document tools are critical for developers and their organizations to build document experiences that exceed the expectations and meet the needs of 21st century users.

“In a world that innovates so fast, digital documents continue to be limited by the constraints and use cases of the ‘90s,” said Jonathan Rhyne, co-founder and CEO of Nutrient. “We are on a mission to change that by evolving the way people experience and interact with documents.”

Nutrient provides an unrivaled breadth of modern document tools that developers and IT professionals need to deliver on the promise of digital transformation. By building with Nutrient software development kits (SDKs), product leaders and developers are able to create seamless, secure, and scalable document experiences. Whether building web, mobile, server, or cloud-based microservice applications, Nutrient SDKs help developers integrate document functionality — from viewing, signing, and form filling, to conversion, generation, authoring, and much more. Nutrient enables organizations to streamline document workflows and scale operations with off-the-shelf, low-code solutions and backend automation. With Nutrient’s Workflow Automation Platform, IT leaders and citizen developers can build structured, efficient, and auditable workflows for every department with a platform that’s easy to implement, use, and scale.

“Nutrient’s leading-edge document processing technology accelerated our PDF previewing capabilities in the Box mobile app, helping us achieve our mobile UX goals months earlier than planned,” said Klaudyna Szpara, a product manager at Box, the Intelligent Content Cloud.

Today, Nutrient powers thousands of global organizations, including more than 15% of Global 500 brands, thousands of commercial businesses across 80 nations, and more than 130 public sector organizations in 24 countries. Nutrient customers span nearly every vertical industry — from architecture, construction, and engineering to finance, healthcare, and software as a service.

In 2022, Stax, a market-leading consulting firm, estimated the total addressable U.S. commercial market for document developer tools to be nearly $1.9 billion — a remarkable 79% increase from 2019. This growth is fueled by new use cases and the accelerated shift to digital documents. Stax also projected that meeting the needs of all B2B document developer tools could potentially double the total addressable market, further enhancing Nutrient’s market position.

Nutrient is strategically positioned to capitalize on the acceleration of digital transformation, which is expected to drive growth by addressing a broader range of document and workflow use cases across various industries. The acquisitions of Muhimbi, ORPALIS, and Aquaforest in 2022 and Integrify in 2024 have significantly bolstered Nutrient’s capabilities, enabling the company to provide an unrivaled breadth of comprehensive solutions.

To learn more about Nutrient, visit the website here. 

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Addressing the ConfusedPilot Threat

ConfusedPilot attacks, a term coined by University of Texas at Austin students mentored by Symmetry CEO Dr. Mohit Tiwari, represent a new class of threats targeting RAG-based systems like Microsoft Copilot. These attacks can lead to the dissemination of misinformation, potentially compromising critical decision-making processes within enterprises.

“The research into ConfusedPilot attacks highlights the asymmetry of AI security threats – these attacks are as easy as uploading a file, but defending against them is difficult,” said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. “Our enhanced Data+AI Security suite now provides robust protection against Confused Pilot attacks, ensuring that organizations can confidently leverage AI technologies without compromising data integrity or decision-making processes.”

Key Features of the Enhanced Data+AI Security Suite

This enhanced product line offers six key capabilities:

• Advanced Document Scanning: Utilizes Symmetry’s advanced data discovery and classification algorithms to identify potentially malicious documents that could be used in ConfusedPilot attacks.
• Content Integrity Monitoring: Implements checks to monitor the origin, authenticity and integrity of data used by RAG-based systems, and alert on changes by unauthorized personnel.
• Decision Impact Analysis: Provides insights into how potentially compromised data could affect enterprise decision-making processes.
• Prompt Monitoring: Searches, monitors, and alerts on suspicious prompts being used across the enterprise.
• Information Flow Barriers: Implements Data Firewalls to segment data sources for users, ensuring appropriate access controls.
• External Data Source Alerting: Monitors and alerts on the use of external data sources that could potentially introduce vulnerabilities.

Comprehensive Protection for the AI Era

This update to Symmetry’s Data+AI Security suite complements Symmetry’s existing capabilities and offers businesses a holistic approach to Data+AI security, covering everything from deployment readiness to ongoing threat protection.

“As organizations rapidly adopt AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, the need for cohesive security measures that look at both the data+AI has never been more critical,” added Tiwari. “Our expanded capabilities not only address immediate threats but also prepare businesses for the future of AI in the workplace.”

Availability and Implementation

The enhanced Data+AI Security suite with ConfusedPilot protection is available as an add-on for existing Symmetry Systems customers and will be offered to all new clients. Symmetry’s team of expert consultants is prepared to assist organizations in implementing these new features and integrating them into their existing security frameworks.

Find our more at the Data+AI Security Summit 2024

For those interested in learning more about ConfusedPilot and other emerging threats in the AI security landscape, we invite you to join us at the Symmetry Data+AI Security Summit 2024. This event will bring together industry experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the latest developments in AI security. For more information and to register, please visit the website here.

To learn more about Symmetry Systems expansion of its Data+AI Security and DSPM capabilities to combat the emerging threat of ConfusedPilot attacks, visit the website here.

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“Every enterprise today faces the growing challenge of efficiently securing access across cloud resources and cloud providers. Apono has demonstrated its ability to provide a simple, innovative, and secure solution that addresses this critical need,” said Stephen Lowing, Vice President of Marketing. “I’m thrilled to join a company that understands the breadth and depth of this challenge and look forward to reaching and delivering for more customers.”

“This is a very exciting time for Apono. The market opportunity is clear, and we’re thrilled to add the right talent to capitalize on it,” said Rom Carmel, CEO and Co-founder of Apono. “Steve and Dan will be instrumental in this phase of our growth. We’re excited to benefit from their expertise and look forward to building upon this momentum.”

To learn more about Dan Parelskin and Stephen Lowing and the rest of the Apono leadership team, visit the website here.

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The companies included in the 2024 State of the Staffing Industry report range in size from 20 to 1,500 employees across 32 different roles in the staffing ecosystem. Productivity was measured based on usage of various cloud tools (i.e., ATS, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack), which showed that employee productivity was on the decline in January through July but increased beginning in August.

• Highly productive employees display distinct work habits compared to their lower productivity peers. Employees in the “above average” productivity group spent approximately two hours and 11 minutes per day in meetings, while employees in the “below average” group spent approximately one hour per day in meetings. Additionally, employees in the above-average productivity group are active in cloud tools for over six hours daily, while those in the below average-group show less than three hours of activity.
• Manager to direct-report ratio is instrumental in identifying employee attrition. At high churn organizations, managers had 12 direct reports while at low churn organizations managers had five direct reports.
• Employees using Large Language Models (LLMs) are more productive and work longer hours. There is a 15-21% increase in productivity among employees who use LLMs; these employees also work 90 minutes more per day than those who don’t use LLMs.
• There is no difference in productivity whether employees are in-office vs. remote. Productivity remains consistent no matter where staffing employees are working from, countering concerns about their ability to work effectively outside of the office.

“Prodoscore has been pivotal in enhancing productivity and transparency across our workforce,” said Kevin Sailor, CEO and Managing Partner at Financial Recruiters International, a Prodoscore customer. “With real-time insights, we can make data-driven decisions that address potential issues before they impact our teams. We’ve learned that balanced manager-to-employee ratios are essential for reducing attrition, enabling our managers to better support their teams. Prodoscore has empowered us to better serve our employees more effectively by making informed decisions based on tangible insights rather than gut instinct.”

“Our 2024 State of the Staffing Industry Report underscores the transformative role data is playing not only in the staffing sector but across all professional services,” said Sam Naficy, CEO at Prodoscore. “As we navigate a rapidly evolving job market, insights into remote and hybrid productivity are more valuable than ever. By focusing on the metrics that matter, companies can identify the ways in which their employees work at their best and develop transparent performance expectations that encourage high levels of productivity for all employees. Prodoscore is creating a new category and revolutionizing the way companies of all sizes approach employee engagement and productivity, driving actionable changes that enhance business value.”

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With traditional approaches, enterprises often struggle to gain insights across unstructured data and text. This challenge only grows as the amount of unstructured data increases. With unstructured data representing more than 80 percent of all corporate data, companies are often forced to run queries and compile reports based on a small subset of data—the information stored in structured systems. As a result, reports and analyses may be incomplete or inaccurate, with valuable insight still locked inside disparate unstructured systems.

Cohesity Gaia brings the power of generative AI to enterprise data, dramatically improving the speed and quality of insights available for a variety of use cases. The solution indexes and provides insight based on data stored in many popular formats, including emails, documents, PDFs, text files, spreadsheets, HTML, XML, and presentations.

Gain Insights Faster with Auto-Generated Themes and Topics for Thousands of Documents

One of the biggest challenges users face when working with vast datasets is having access to data but not knowing where to begin or what valuable insights can be retrieved. Cohesity Gaia overcomes this by automatically providing a visual representation of the data, sorted by themes, giving users a clear starting point. The new visual explorer uses topic modeling, a set of advanced AI techniques with natural language processing, to instantly identify hidden thematic structures across documents and files. This deep insight and context into the nature of the data offers a framework for better understanding, empowering users to ask more informed and targeted questions as they search.

The Gaia visual data explorer further simplifies this process by allowing users to click through each theme, ask conversational questions, and interact with intelligent, context-aware prompts to quickly find the most relevant information. Aligned with Cohesity’s responsible AI commitment, Gaia gives customers insight into their data while keeping it secure and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Cohesity will host a series of AI workshops to give customers and prospects a hands-on look at the first-of-its-kind visual data explorer and learn more about how Cohesity Gaia can help unlock new insights from their business. For more information on the AI workshops, visit our website.

“By addressing the challenge of managing and extracting insights from unstructured data across disparate systems, Cohesity Gaia and its new visual data explorer have the potential to revolutionize data accessibility for enterprises,” said Chirag Mehta, Principal Cybersecurity Analyst with Constellation Research. “This innovation not only could enhance data security and compliance but could also empower business users of enterprise customers with deeper, more contextual insights, significantly benefiting the decision-making process and operational efficiency.”

Access Vast Amounts of Data Stored in Sharepoint and NAS environments with Generative AI

Cohesity has also expanded support for new workloads and data sources within Gaia. Cohesity customers can now analyze corporate data protected on the Cohesity platform from Microsoft 365 Mail, Microsoft 365 Sharepoint, and Microsoft 365 OneDrive, as well as on-prem or cloud-based file servers, including popular systems like Dell EMC Isilon, Netapp NAS, physical file servers, and Cohesity Smartfiles.

The new visual data explorer feature in Cohesity Gaia visually maps customers’ data sets based on semantic indexing and creates a list of suggested questions and queries, illustrated here using test data.

To learn more about Cohesity Gaia visual data explorer, visit the website here.

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According to the 2024 State of OT Security report from Palo Alto Networks and ABI Research, 70% of industrial organizations experienced a cyberattack on their OT environment in the last year. Almost 25% of these organizations suffered attacks that led to operational shutdowns and disrupted business continuity.

Anand Oswal, SVP and GM, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks:
“The rise in the frequency and sophistication of OT attacks, often driven by AI, highlights the urgent need for robust, OT-specific security measures. Organizations must implement comprehensive solutions that ensure real-time visibility, end-to-end protection and simplified security management. Palo Alto Networks OT Security solution, powered by Precision AI, secures both OT and converged IT/OT in a consistent way to combat these challenges and protect critical infrastructure.”

Sid Snitkin, Vice President, Cybersecurity Services, ARC Industrial Cybersecurity: 
“Operational technology environments are becoming increasingly complex and interconnected, making them more susceptible to cyber threats. The ability to deploy AI-powered tools like guided virtual patching is a game-changer for industrial cybersecurity. It enables organizations to address vulnerabilities in real-time without the costly and often disruptive downtime that traditional patching methods would require. This approach not only reduces risks but also enhances the overall resilience of OT infrastructures.”

Palo Alto Networks OT Security solution safeguards all OT environments, including networks, assets, remote operations and 5G networks. It also provides specific visibility and capabilities to help customers simplify operations and increase efficiency.

New features include the ability to:

• Enhance remote operations with secure and easy-to-deploy access for OT: Privileged Remote Access delivered through the new Prisma Access Browser will empower OT security teams managing remote operations. This solution simplifies deployment and strengthens security by providing secure, immediate access to critical OT systems for all authorized users, including contractors and partners. It supports just-in-time access and session recording for essential workflows, ensuring that mission-critical environments are safeguarded while making remote access easier to manage.
• Quickly address critical OT vulnerabilities without interrupting operations: Keeping legacy OT assets secure can be challenging, especially when patches risk disrupting operations. Guided Virtual Patching with Industrial OT Security allows security teams to mitigate critical vulnerabilities swiftly without causing downtime. Powered by Precision AI, it automates asset inventory, assesses risks and prioritizes vulnerabilities to enable protection of hard-to-patch systems between regular patch cycles or maintenance windows. This prevents interruptions as well as extends the lifespan of these assets, ensuring that critical operations remain uninterrupted and secure.
• Protect remote industrial assets in harsh environments: Industrial operations sometimes need to happen in tough conditions, facing rain, wind and extreme temperatures. The ruggedized PA-400R Series firewalls offer reliable security tailored for harsh, space-constrained environments like utility substations and factory floors. Easy to install—even on DIN rails—they include models with 5G connectivity to keep remote sites connected. With features like fail-to-wire capabilities, these firewalls ensure continuous security and connectivity, helping reduce costs while protecting critical infrastructure.

During the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference this week, attendees can learn more about the power of Palo Alto Networks new capabilities, as well as experience an interactive tour of our OT CyberWall.

To learn more about Palo Alto Networks OT Security, visit the website here.

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