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As Bellone seeks ‘centralized’ computer network, other Suffolk officials call for autonomy


As Suffolk moves to put a crippling ransomware attack behind it, County Executive Steve Bellone is touting a newly centralized infrastructure as the core of his efforts to secure disparate county networks.

“Never again will the county information technology security team be in a position to ask someone to fix a security concern because they don’t have the credentials to access systems themselves,” Bellone said.

But as Bellone moves to implement the long-planned vision, some other elected county officials, citing the impacts of the ransomware lockdowns and concerns about confidentiality, are pushing for even greater levels of security autonomy. The Sept. 8 cyberattack shut down a broad cross-section of county services for several months.

“We’re getting the hell out of there completely,” Suffolk Comptroller John Kennedy said of the county’s network. By the second week of March, Kennedy said he expects to have his office’s audit software application onto a remotely hosted cloud-based system that will be “completely off any county hardware or servers.”

WHAT TO KNOW

  • A newly centralized infrastructure is the core of County Executive Steve Bellone’s efforts to secure disparate Suffolk networks.
  • Other elected county officials, citing concerns about confidentiality, are pushing for even greater levels of security autonomy.
  • The consultant helping Suffolk search for its first chief information security officer said the county’s “siloed” structure of networks is one of its biggest challenges.

The structure of the network presents it with long-recognized challenges, with the county’s main Department of Information Technology controlled by the Bellone administration and sub-networks with varying levels of autonomy and responsibility, including separate IT staffs, and under elected officials such as the county clerk and sheriff.

Experts said that “siloed” approach can leave the county more vulnerable to attack and more of a challenge to get cyber insurance. But political realities leave others concerned that ceding too much control to the county executive could expose sensitive information to political foes.

Security dome over disparate systems

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smartphones with power, autonomy and creativity – CVBJ


New range made up of the edge 20 pro, edge 20 and edge 20 lite models.

According to Motorola, this new edge family goes beyond the company’s previous generation of smartphones in almost every category, bringing more powerful processors, a main camera with larger pixels and Motorola’s first periscope-style zoom, with up to 50x. . In addition, the screen refresh rate is higher, the battery charge is faster, and the number of experiences on the Ready For software platform has been expanded.

Cameras

Across the Motorola edge 20 family, the company has focused on improving camera quality. The Motorola edge 20 pro offers a new 108MP main camera with 1 / 1.5 ″ optical format. It features Ultra Pixel technology: every nine pixels are combined into one large ultrapixel, improving light sensitivity by nine times and resulting in better low-light performance. It also offers an ultra-wide-angle lens with built-in Macro Vision, allowing you to capture four times more of the scene in the frame to capture more of the surroundings and fit more people in each shot. Macro Vision also allows you to get up to five times closer to your photographed subject for extreme close-ups, up to 3 cm away, to capture photos of food, crafts, nature and more.

Telescope camera

The third camera represents Motorola’s first periscope-type telephoto lens, a rarely seen feature in this class of smartphones, which bends light 90 degrees for clarity greater than 5x away. In addition, the Super Zoom 50x allows you to capture details from incredible distances. And as a video feature, the Motorola edge 20 pro can record in incredible 8K resolution.

Screens

The Motorola edge 20 pro incorporates a large 6.7 ″ Max Vision display with OLED technology for a crystal clear viewing experience. This display offers 10-bit color, reaching the DCI-P3 color space and meeting HDR10 + standards. This means that users can see more than a billion shades of colors, which are reproduced vividly, brightly and realistically on the screen. For the first time, a 144Hz refresh rate is offered, the highest refresh rate available on a conventional smartphone. When it comes to dynamic, high-motion content such as…

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HP Acquires Control of Autonomy Corporation plc (HP)

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HP Acquires Control of Autonomy Corporation plc  —  Positions HP as a leader in fast-growing enterprise information management and data market  —  HP today announced that it has acquired control of Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L).  —  Holders of 213,421,299 Autonomy shares …

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