Monitor your Diabetes with Ticwatch
The Introduction of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices and Smartwatch Readers in Malta for children with Diabetes.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, 10.1% of all 20-79 year olds in Malta suffer from Diabetes. This places Malta in the first quartile within the European region. In recent times we have also seen a spike in the incidence of children who have Diabetes. We are seeing an increase of around 25 patients per year as the official statistics from the office of the deputy prime minister state.
The Government recently launched a programme whereby wearable glucose monitors have been handed out to all children with type 1 diabetes.
Wearable glucose monitors will be handed out to all children under 16 with type 1 diabetes, Health Minister Chris Fearne has announced. The device, which can be worn on the stomach, arm or back, will helps around 160 children manage their condition by monitoring glucose levels and transmitting data to an app which can be read on their phone or through a smartwatch.
Introducing Ticwatch for Diabetes Campaign
No more invasive and painful finger-pricks to get your glucose readings. There are new, easier and more accurate ways to assess and manage blood sugar levels.
Using a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device while connected to a smartwatch informs you of your glucose readings at a glance, right on the wrist. Small yet cutting-edge sensors placed on the surface of the skin continuously monitor blood sugar levels and send the readings from the CGM to the accompanying smartwatch app via Bluetooth connection.
We are keen to offer this feature for children with Diabetes and currently in stock we have the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS and Ticwatch C2 Plus. Data sheets for these products can be downloaded below.
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NATO to Pass a Policy In order to Protect and Counter against Cyber Attacks
Recent Political Events & Darktrace Governmental Cyber AI Programme
One of the main points of discussion in the recent meeting between Russian president Vladimir Putin and U.S president Joe Biden was the Cybersecurity space. The leaders seemed to agree on an alliance in order to combat ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure. In response, NATO has drawn up a new Cyber Defence Policy which has been backed after a summit in Brussels.
This policy has brought to light the importance of cybersecurity and the advancements that hacking organisations have made being able to target the most powerful Governments and entities in the world.
Our partners Darktrace have been at the forefront of this problem with government organisations all over the world, including here in Malta. Having deployed the technology to safeguard their environment. Darktrace uses AI to detect and respond to novel and sophisticated threats – from fast-moving ransomware to low-and-slow data ex-filtration.
Darktrace protects more than 270 government and defence organizations globally:
✔ Detects in-progress attacks with
self-learning AI technology.
✔ Stops emerging cyber-threats in
an average of 2 seconds.
✔ Reduces time to meaning by up
to 92%.
Primary Security Challenges
The task of sustaining normal functionality amid a global pandemic has considerably strained governments on a local, state, and national level. Alongside ensuring that public services and infrastructure – such as utilities, healthcare, and transportation – remain operational, governmental bodies have had to contend with additional challenges: implementing national contact tracing programs, enabling research into vaccines and treatments, as well as providing financial assistance to citizens. Securing the systems that facilitate these services is of vital importance. Additionally, like many organizations over the past year, government offices have had to transition to remote working. The usual cyber risks associated with working from home environments – such as rapid shifts in digital infrastructure and workforce behavior, as well as cyber espionage over video conference and hacked smart home devices – are particularly concerning in the government and defence sector due to the sensitive nature of the data and information that it controls.
How Cyber AI Safeguards Government and Defence Organizations
Proven to protect hundreds of government and defence organizations, Darktrace Cyber AI defends digital data and vital systems from threat – no matter how novel or sophisticated. As a self-learning technology, the AI is able to identify and respond to fast-moving ransomware at an early stage without relying on prior attack data, and operates across SaaS, cloud, IoT, email, endpoints, OT technology, and the traditional network. Inspired by the principles of the human immune system, Darktrace works by learning what ‘normal’ looks like for every user, device, and virtual machine in an organization’s dynamic workforce.
This understanding of ‘self’ allows the AI to spot the subtlest indicators of malicious activity as they emerge, instantly flagging them to security teams, and autonomously responding to neutralize the threat at machine speed. Darktrace Cyber AI Analyst augments teams during fast-moving attacks by autonomously investigating, triaging, and reporting on each security incident. This technology provides actionable intelligence via natural language reports that can be translated to various levels of technical detail – ultimately reducing time to meaning by up to 92%.
Autonomously Defending Against Eking Ransomware At a governmental organization in APAC, Darktrace detected an example of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). With Darktrace, the defenders were able to recognize the anomalous behavior as soon as it occurred and stop the threat from advancing, while Cyber AI Analyst autonomously investigated and reported on every stage of the incident.
The attack started when a corporate device was infected with Eking. Darktrace’s self-learning AI detected and alerted on this threat immediately, picking up on internal reconnaissance activity, SMB enumeration, and extensive scanning. Once the scanning was complete, files were encrypted on a second server, with the infected device transitioning from making just a few internal connections per day to making thousands in less than an hour.
While Darktrace’s alerts and investigations empowered the team to take action straight away, this all this occurred late at night local time – when the security team were out of office. As it was, they were still able to act faster than they otherwise would have and limit the damage when they arrived in the morning. Had Darktrace Antigena been deployed, the AI would have autonomously taken action at the first stage of the attack and prevented encryption occurring.
To discover Darktrace and for a free consultation, contact us on solutions@newtech.mt
Learn more about Darktrace here – https://newtech.mt/darktrace/
Microsoft partners with Darktrace
Microsoft & Darktrace will use AI to keep organisations safe from Hacking threats worldwide (Featured Video below).
This week two of our partners Darktrace and Microsoft announced a partnership to combat an increase in cyber threats with cutting edge artificial intelligence technology being deployed in order to improve cyber security for organisations worldwide. We couldn’t be more delighted here at Newtech having been partnered with both brands for a number of years. For us, this provides a seamless integration for both products and we would like to offer our services for business’ locally as we are offering discounts till the end of June.
Microsoft continues to lead the way through their hugely successful environments including Microsoft 365 and cloud applications like Azure Sentinel. As organisations worldwide continue to utilize remote tools and cloud applications there are increased hacking attempts and this partnership will look to secure business’ data.
Microsoft and Darktrace are collaborating to help organisations address new security challenges in a number of critical areas:
- Email Security – Antigena Email, which uses Darktrace’s artificial intelligence to stop the most advanced email threats, will be hosted on Microsoft Azure and listed on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
- Simplified and Streamlined Security Workflows– Darktrace now integrates seamlessly with Azure Sentinel, with a bespoke Workbook allowing users to send and visualize Darktrace alerts and Cyber AI Analyst incidents inside Sentinel
- Seamless Data Integration – Darktrace one-click integrations allow users to connect Darktrace’s AI detection capabilities to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
“I am proud to be partnering with Microsoft, bringing Darktrace’s Cyber AI and autonomous response into joint customer environments,” commented Poppy Gustafsson, CEO, Darktrace.
Clare Barclay, CEO, Microsoft UK, said: “As cyber-attacks become increasingly sophisticated, AI is adding a deeper level of protection in detecting these threats. The partnership between Microsoft and Darktrace will help keep organisations secure, enabling them to focus on their core business and customers.”
Please get in touch with us on solutions@newtech.mt or call 25523060 to inquire about Microsoft and Darktrace for your business.
Deep Learning & AI: Darktrace.
Transformative Approach of Darktrace: A technical overview.
Darktrace’s transformative approach to cyber defence relies on probabilistic methods developed by Cambridge mathematicians. Employing multiple unsupervised, supervised and deep learning techniques in a Bayesian framework, the enterprise immune system can integrate a vast number of weak indicators of anomalous behaviour to produce a single clear measure of threat probabilities.
For each unique environment, Darktrace generates millions of interrelated mathematical models which are correlated to ensure that only truly anomalous behaviour is detected without a profusion of false positives. Unlike rules-based computation, the results that probabilistic mathematics generate cannot simply be categorized as ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but instead indicate degrees of certainty, reflecting the ambiguities that inevitably exist in dynamic data environments.
Darktrace & Deep Learning
Darktrace also uses deep learning to enhance modelling processes. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses the cascading interactions of layered mathematical processes known as neural nets – to give intelligent systems a higher degree of insight. Multi-layered neural nets can improve the detection and remediation of certain threats, for example, in the identification of DNS anomalies, which are less effectively tracked by other machine learning methods. Darktrace’s deep learning system assigns a score to all DNS data from a device, with the purpose of identifying suspicious activity even faster.
Darktrace also clusters devices into peer groups, based on its own understanding of how those devices behave and uses supervised learning to uncover sequences of breaches, unusual patterns, or to detect aberrant activity at a higher more holistic level. For example, the WannaCry ransomware was easily detected by Darktrace as it breaches a number of different ‘pattern of life’ models. Using supervised learning Darktrace can replicate the process of a human interpreting various sets of breaches for a device or network over time and so present correlated alerts instead of a multitude.
Supervised learning is also used by Darktrace to understand more about the environment, without a human having to label it. For example by observing millions of different smartphones Darktrace gets faster and faster at identifying a new device as a ‘smartphone’ and even what type of smartphone it is.
Using deep and supervised techniques to complement its core unsupervised machine learning algorithms, Darktrace builds up unique, contextual knowledge about network activity and integrates the insights of our global deployments to improve threat detection.
Finally, Darktrace also uses deep learning techniques to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks carried out during investigation workflows. By analyzing how seasoned cyber analysts interact with the threath visualizer, triage alerts, and leverage third-party sources, Darktrace is able to replicate those expert behaviours and automate certain analyst functions. This allows for increasingly efficient and simplified investigations for analysts of all maturity levels. It also gives security teams the crucial time they need to focus on higher-value strategic work, such as managing risk and focusing on broader improvements to the business.
Microsoft Surface Partners with Newtech as a local Maltese Distributor.
We are pleased to add Microsoft surface to our portfolio of products within the local b2b sector.
Work, Live & Play with Microsoft Surface
Microsoft surface provides exceptional all in one solutions designed to stay connected with all in one solutions.
Easily connect, share experiences, and celebrate big moments
Through Surface and Skype you can connect with up to 50 people. With people spending more time at home during this pandemic, why not make the most out of your experiences?
Built-in cameras that adapt to show the right camera angle
All Surface tablets have HD video webcams that orient towards your face from any angle that you take your calls, even whilst moving.
All the connections and accessories you need
Personalize your home workspace with a sleek wireless mouse, Surface Pen, Surface Headphones 2, Surface Earbuds, Type Cover or Surface Dock.
Get things done, wherever you are
With the surface signature kick stand you can work from anywhere. Whether you are on your kitchen table, sitting on the couch or at your work desk.
Improved Battery Life
The new models have enhanced performance and battery life.
Great Sound
Every Surface features built-in Dolby® Audio™ that’s perfect for listening to music, podcasts and audio books, and streaming your favorite shows.
Familiar Windows 10 features and built-in security
Surface has you covered with the Windows 10 you know, password-free sign-in, and secured cloud storage.
Protect your files and family
Sharing Surface is seamless and secure, with parent-managed screen time limits and content filtering – plus plenty of space for your photos, videos and music.
Keep your files private and confidential
OneDrive cloud storage gives you even more space for your family’s files, photos, videos and music. Plus, OneDrive Personal Vault adds an extra layer of protection for sensitive documents, photos, and videos.
Log in securely with Windows Hello
Windows Hello password-free sign-in is the fastest, most secure way to unlock your Surface.
Antigena Email by Darktrace
Darktrace Antigena acts faster than any security practitioner could to in order to prevent damage from attacks such as ransomware.
Powered by Darktrace’s multi-award-winning AI, Darktrace Antigena is an autonomous response solution that takes action against in-progress cyber-threats, limiting damage and stopping their spread in real time. The technology works like a digital antibody, intelligently generating measured and proportionate responses when a threatening incident arises, without impacting normal business operations. This ability to contain threats as they happen using proven AI is a game-changer for security teams, who benefit from the critical time needed to catch up and avoid major damage.
Bridging the gap between automated threat detection and a security team’s response, Darktrace Antigena represents a new era of cyber defense that autonomously fights back.
Darktrace Antigena works across your business and is offered in two modules: Antigena Network and Antigena Email.
Further Information available here: https://newtech.mt/darktrace/
AI and The next Generation of Cyber-Threat
While AI can be leveraged for cyber defense, it also presents new opportunities for cyber-attackers to operate at greater scale and to perpetrate more targeted attacks.
For instance, malicious software on your laptop might use AI to learn the way you communicate with different people on a daily basis, replicating your personalized communication styles and leveraging contextual information to trick recipients into opening a malicious attachment or link.
AI techniques might also be used to power advanced surveillance attacks with nefarious forms of speech-to-text processing. Imagine an attacker hacking into the connected smart TVs and video conferencing units installed in meeting rooms across your organization. By activating the microphones and streaming the audio in every meeting, an AI-driven translation and transcription service could produce transcripts of confidential discussions and immediately flag sensitive topics of interest to the hacker, such as the details of an upcoming legal trial or a confidential business merger.
As advances in AI continue to provide attackers with the opportunity to enhance the speed, scale, and automation of cyber-attacks, the war of algorithm is being fought within corporate networks around the world.
Due to this, we are now offering Darktrace as a cyber service which utilizes AI to protect against your whole network. Please contact us for free demo and for further information.
More information is available here – https://newtech.mt/darktrace/
Darktrace * Microsoft 365 Security
Darktrace’s AI understands normal ‘patterns of life’ to detect threats that other tools miss, protecting the dynamic workforce across email, SaaS and Azure AD.
As attackers continue to target remote workers via spear phishing, wire fraud and SaaS account takeover, Darktrace learns on the job, securing your entire Microsoft environment with a single AI engine.
Key Benefits for Microsoft Customers:
- Single, unified AI platform that provides complete coverage.
- Catches costly attacks missed by legacy security tools.
- 100% of your Microsoft users are analyzed as personas for behavioral modeling.
- 30-day free trial with full actioning capability.
- 5-minute install
Newtech the authorized service center for MSI, Lenovo & Acer.
Newtech Service Centre
Over the past few years, Newtech has seen significant growth in its service centre operations. The service centre continues to grow in terms of reputation to offer a reliable and efficient service for our clientele.
Newtech is the authorised service centre for :
- Lenovo
- Acer
- MSI
The service centre abides by partner requirements as per Newtech’s distribution agreements. The service centre is open to the receiving of all items, even if not purchased within the company. Service charge is dependent on warranty conditions and differs per brand.
