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.
Newtech Partners with Patchbox - A leading Cable Management Solution.
We are proud to announce a new partnership with the one of the world’s leading cable management solution, PATCHBOX à Simplify Cable Management.
PATCHBOX is the state-of-the-art cabling system for network and server racks that replaces conventional copper and fibre patch cords and cable management. Providing the exact length patch cord required, creating benefits by accelerating rack maintenance and building an efficient and sustainable working environment by preventing cable spaghetti. This solution will look to aid business’s in managing their network helping to become more organised and efficient. A simple but effective system for network & office administrators!
Newtech is proud to have been selected by Patchbox as their authorised distribution. This partnership adds to our extensive portfolio of solutions and providing more value to you, our esteemed clients!
WEBSITE – https://patchbox.com/patchbox
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PATCHBOX – Simplify Cable Management – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzTkBO7Xkxk
Any interest in the PATCHBOX Solution kindly get in touch via ntsales@newtech.mt to get hold of our NFR kits, price-lists and any marketing material.
Acunetix Product Overview with Mark Schembri.
Founded in Malta in 2005, Acunetix now forms part of Invicti security who are keeping the internet secure with DAST solutions that help protect web applications around the world. Trusted by some of the world’s most established brands, the company protects over 625 K sites, 33000 companies in 115 countries.
Contact us through this link on our website –
Stay connected while you work from home with Linksys & Belkin.
For many people today, their office is now their home.
This now means that the numbers of connected devices at home has increased significantly, from phones to laptops, to TVs.
How can you maximise your home network with Linksys?
While many products seem similar on the surface, not all are the same. With so many to choose from, it can be confusing as to where to start. What factors play into getting the most out of your home network?
Test Your Wi-Fi Speed
Currently, there are single-band, dual-band, and tri-band WiFi routers on the market. Single band optimal speed is up to 750 Mbps, a dual band WiFi router clocks up to 1625 Mbps, and a tri-band router provides the fastest speeds with up to 2166 Mbps on each band.
It is important to test your WiFi speed to make sure the speed you are paying for and receiving is matching your needs.
Ditch Your Old ISP Router/Modem
Many people try to make do with the ISP router/modem that they most likely got from their Internet provider. These routers are adequate for basic Internet needs but that’s what these routers are: basic. If you’re dependent on reliable, fast and consistent WiFi throughout your home office and home, these ISP provided routers likely aren’t optimal.
Upgrade to Mesh WiFi
Mesh WiFi, or whole home WiFi, consists of a main router that connects directly to your modem and a series of nodes you place around your home. This provides full WiFi coverage throughout your house. Think of it like an old-school stereo, with a main receiver and various satellite speakers around the house to carry sound — but in this case, it’s a router, nodes, and WiFi.
With a Linksys Mesh WiFi router, such as the MR9000 or MR8300, you create a mesh WiFi that delivers superior speeds through your home. It’s easy to install and you can expand your coverage as your WiFi needs grow.
Add WiFi Range Extenders
Some Mesh WiFi systems require to you upgrade to an entire new WiFi system if you want to expand on it. Fortunately, Linksys offers ways you can extend the range of your WiFi with affordable products. That means you’ll be able to augment and expand upon your original investment.
Linksys Velop Mesh WiFi benefits include:
- Faster Internet speeds
- Expand your WiFi coverage
- Easy to install
- Customizable
- Automated software updates
Optimize Your Home WiFi to Maximize Productivity
Overall, optimizing your home WiFi is about staying connected and in control so you can be as productive as possible. Your family members who rely on WiFi will be happy, too.
Learn More About Mesh WiFi
Newtech are the official distribution partners of Linksys & Belkin in Malta.
This blog was taken from the following link – https://www.linksys.com/us/r/resource-center/how-to-optimize-wifi-working-from-home/
Maltese Success Story: Acunetix World Leading in Cybersecurity.
Maltese Success Story: Acunetix
World Leading in Cybersecurity.
Acunetix is a global web security leader which is trusted by many Fortune 500 companies from the most demanding sectors, and government entities.
Globally the company is trusted by the U.S Air Force, NASA, HSBC, American Express, AVG and AWS, amongst many others.
Acunetix was founded in Malta in 2005. At this time, many enterprises did not see the need to secure their web applications. Instead, they focused on protecting the network. Acunetix were the pioneers who realized that this is not enough because network scanners and firewalls are helpless against most web vulnerabilities.
The solution was to develop an automated tool used to scan web applications to identify and resolve security issues.
Since then, Acunetix grew as both the company and the product. The vulnerability scanner was originally developed for Windows only. In 2014, Acunetix launched an online (cloud) solution, in 2018 – a Linux version, and in 2019 – Acunetix 360 for enterprises on all platforms.
In 2018, the company was acquired by Turn/River Capital.
Acunetix is a fully automated tool that frees up your security team resources. It specifically looks at protecting your web applications, such as your website & mobile applications. In Layman’s terms, the technology looks to hack your web applications and generate reports on the vulnerabilities. Different reports are generated automatically that are both suited for individuals in managerial positions (Managers, CEO’S, CFO’s etc..) written in language that can be understood, and detailed reports for security analysts, showing them exactly where the vulnerabilities are located within the code and how to fix them.
This saves a lot of time for security teams as they no longer need to spend hours manually auditing their web applications for vulnerabilities. Acunetix is one of the best solutions on the market as it reports very few false positives, meaning additional time is saved as teams do not need to waste resources attempting to validate non-existent issues and vulnerabilities.
How does Acunetix work?
Acunetix can detect vulnerabilities that other technologies would miss because it combines the best of dynamic and static scanning technologies, constantly scanning for vulnerabilities on the application. Acunetix also has the AcuSensor and AcuMonitor, the proprietary technologies which aid in the accuracy of scans.
What Are the Benefits of AcuMonitor?
AcuMonitor increases the scope of vulnerabilities that the Acunetix scanner can detect. Without AcuMonitor, out-of-band detection is not possible. Also, vulnerabilities detected with AcuMonitor are never false positives. Here are some of the vulnerabilities detected by Acunetix with AcuMonitor:
- Blind server-side XML/SOAP injection
- Blind XSS (delayed XSS)
- Host header attack
- Out-of-band remote code execution (OOB RCE)
- Out-of-band SQL Injection (OOB SQLi)
- Email header injection
- Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
- XML External Entity injection (XXE)
How do you save time with Acunetix?
The software is at an advanced level and provides vulnerability management and compliance reporting functionality instantly. The template of the reports can be designed specific to each company. You can classify, prioritize, and retest issues. Allowing your security teams to focus on the vulnerabilities, creating more efficiency and most importantly saving time.
Acunetix 360 and its integration with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This is a big time saver as it integrates all the different parts of website development (development, bug tracking, auto-assignment, alerting, vulnerability management, auto re-testing, etc). Acunetix is able to integrate all these different job processes into a single, automatic, customizable flow.
Can you integrate Acunetix to your system / issue trackers?
Acunetix integrates with 3rd party applications, making it easier to track and protect against identified vulnerabilities. Acunetix scan results can be used by the following Issue Trackers and WAFs, and Acunetix can also be used as part of a Continuous Integration environment.
Issue Trackers
An Issue Tracker is a powerful and essential tool in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of almost any software project. It helps development teams streamline collaboration and manage their work without getting lost in an endless stream of emails and PDF reports.
Acunetix can send vulnerabilities as issues to the following Issue Trackers:
- Microsoft TFS
- JIRA
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bugzilla
- Mantis
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
Acunetix integrates with popular WAFs to automatically create appropriate Web Application Firewall rules to protect web applications against attacks targeting vulnerabilities that the scanner finds. This allows you to temporarily prevent the exploitation of high-severity vulnerabilities until you are able to fix them.
Acunetix can export scan data to the following Web Application Firewalls (WAFs):
- Imperva SecureSphere
- F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager
- FortiWeb WAF
- Citrix WAF
Newtech has proudly partnered with Acunetix as the local distributor, continuing its growing portfolio of brands within the technology sector. Specifically increasing its representation in the realm of cyber security which also includes Darktrace and Bitdefender. The company strives to provide its clients with the best technological solutions available.
If interested in Acunetix and for a free demo, please contact us on ntsales@newtech.mt
Cyber Security Awareness Sponsored by Acunetix with Rosyln from Advisory 21.
For our second video in the series we invite Dr. Roselyn Borg Knight to talk about the legal requirements, challenges and threats of protecting data online.
Dr. Borg Knight specializes in employment law and industrial relations. Her company operates as the link between the UK and other foreign jurisdictions with a particular focus on Malta. As the Co - Founder at Advisory 21 she advises employers and individuals on all aspects of employment law, from recruitment to termination. They also offer bespoke training and also address conferences and workshops.
Dr. Borg Knight is also the Co-founder and co-editor of living law magazine.
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Cyber Security Awareness Sponsored by Acunetix with Matthew from Betsson.
Here Robin, our Marketing & Brand Executive interviewed Matthew Sciberras the Director of Information Security at Betsson to talk about his work, the technical aspects of the job and current challenges that he faces. Sponsored by Acunetix
What's new in Acunetix V13?
Find out what’s new in Acunetix v13
The new release comes with an improved user interface and introduces innovations such as the SmartScan engine, malware detection functionality, comprehensive network scanning, proof-of-exploit, incremental scanning, and more. This release further strengthens the leading position of Acunetix on the web security market.
The 2020 edition of the Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report contains a statistical data analysis for web vulnerabilities and network perimeter vulnerabilities.
The full report can be found here: https://www.acunetix.com/acunetix-web-application-vulnerability-report
Acunetix prepared the report by doing the following:
- Taking data from Acunetix Online for scans performed between March 2019 and February 2020
- Randomly and anonymously selecting 5,000 scan targets
- Focusing on High Severity and Medium Severity vulnerabilities
Our general observations are:
- The total number of web and network perimeter vulnerabilities is slightly less than last year
- Relatively new scan targets had more vulnerabilities than others
Acunetix is a global web security leader which is trusted by many fortune 500 companies from the most demanding sectors, and government entities. Globally the company is trusted by the U.S Air Force, NASA, HSBC, American Express, AVG and AWS, amongst many others.
Acunetix is Maltese of origin and was started by Nick Galea, in 2005 becoming the first company to build a fully dedicated and fully automated web vulnerability scanner. Acunetix carries unparalleled experience in the field and the scanner has been recognized as a leading solution multiple times.
It is a fully automated tool that frees up your security team resources. It reports very few false positives so your team does not waste time trying to find nonexistent issues. It can detect vulnerabilities that other technologies would miss because it combines the best of dynamic and static scanning technologies and uses a separate monitoring agent. It provides vulnerability management and compliance reporting functionality. You can classify, prioritize, and retest issues. You can also integrate with issue trackers and continuous integration solutions.
Covid 19 Impact in the technological sector.
Covid 19 Impact in the technological sector.
These are unprecedented times as various sectors adapt to a new way of life whilst Governments around the world are faced with a dilemma to mitigate the economic effects of the virus whilst abiding to the guidelines set out by the health authorities.
The IT sector has grown to represent 6.6% of the GVA generated by the Maltese economy in 2017, currently the industry is represented by more than 300 companies, employing over 7,300 persons. What is being observed in the market internationally that is having an effect on the market locally?
Below we wish to summarise the industries that Newtech are directly involved in.
I.T Hardware & Distribution
Shops all over the island have had to switch their business models, with a sole focus on e-commerce and deliveries, since physical stores have closed. The focus is on ensuing timely delivers to customers purchasing online. International distribution has also tightened due to the virus and products are generally taking longer to arrive, therefore purchasing managers are faced with key decisions on which items to keep in stock and at what risk. This may have a direct effect on the consumer who can purchase through international market places such as online vendors or similar, for items not available locally.
Internationally there are similar problems in the market, In the U.S According to CNBC 51.6 million PC units were shipped in the first three months of the year, down 12.3% from the previous year. It marks the biggest fall in shipments since 2013, and follows three consecutive quarters of growth for the market, showing that the downward trend is due to corona-virus market volatility. According to IDC, our partners Lenovo Group Ltd. 992, +2.68% shipments fell 4.3% year-over-year to 12.8 million units & Acer Group shipments fell 9.9% to 3.4 million units.
Software Licensing & Asset Management
When this crisis began, companies were faced with no option but to adjust to home circumstances. This new world means that companies are looking to increase their remote working capabilities, which has led to a number of changes in the market.
Microsoft reported in mid-March its Teams collaboration software had spiked to 44 million daily active users. That was up from 20 million in November, adding 12 million new users in the week prior to the announcement.
Microsoft Minutes Spent on teams per day, full report:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/09/remote-work-trend-report-meetings
Whilst Altassian stock and Slack Technologies both rose and stand-out as enterprise software companies who are outperforming despite corona virus driven market volatility. Throughout March, we witnessed a record high stock rise for conference calling applications such as Zoom, who have rose up by 117%, with schools, universities & businesses’ making use of the service to continue operation.
Software Licensing stocks seem to be performing well in the current climate as shares in cloud based solutions have also hit new records. As companies look to shift online we have seen an increase in licensing applications, however this can be seen as marginal as companies look to utilise the resources only available to them in order to save costs and not shift to new products or tools.
Cyber-Security
As companies shift online to cloud and remote working resources, the importance of cyber-security has increased. Cyber attacks are on the rise with a number of phishing attempts being disguised as COVID related news. Security analysts, are working around the clock to ensure the safety of companies’ data due to the prevalence of hackers during this period. Companies are starting to realize the importance of online security and are therefore more willing to look at high end solutions. Having said that, security budgets have been slashed in many cases due to operational costs, and even if companies wish to commit to long term solutions, they may no longer have the budget in place to do so.
Within the cyber-security realm a number of high values companies are privately listed, however publicly stocks have fallen as operational budgets are cut due to the current crisis. Within the local market, more awareness is still needed on the importance of Cyber-security and how it can safeguard business. However, companies are starting to realize the importance of having such tools in place.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the market has changed drastically and distribution is focused around the needs of business. As Hardware distribution declines, software licensing seems to have risen, and companies are starting to take note of the importance of investing into solutions that can improve productivity. Cyber-security is also important in order to safeguard the increasing number of data online. However one common issue remains, and that is revenue. As Business continues to loose revenue, investment into technology is set to damper.
Remote Working from Home & Virtual Client Computing - Parallels
Virtual client computing (VCC) includes software and systems designed to abstract applications and desktops away from the client device, allowing for additional layers of control and security. These systems may simply present another operating system on the device itself; draw on resources from a private cloud, a hosted environment, or the public cloud; or use a combination of these features along with the emerging concepts of edge computing and adaptive design to create complex digital work-spaces.
Consider Parallels RAS
- Enhanced Data Security – Protecting data is crucial to organizations – any loss can result in huge costs. Parallels RAS reinforces security by centralizing and managing data access.
- Flexible working – Allow employees to switch between devices and locations, increasing productivity and satisfaction. Parallel RAS provides seamless access to virtual apps and desktops anywhere, anytime.
- IT Agility – Increase the agility of your IT infrastructure to address business demands in real time. Parallels RAS provides central management for multi-cloud deployments, enabling scaling on demand.
Are you interested in improving your business remote working capabilities? Contact us on ntsales@newtech.mt or call on 25523000.
Due to concerns related to Covid-19 employers are faced with no option but to utilize remote working in many cases. However, for decades, the VCC market has revolved around a core set of compatibility, mobility, and security use cases and been tied to expensive/lengthy infrastructure purchase cycles. Digital workspaces are an emerging area in which the vendor expands the desktop workspace in a variety of ways, usually in conjunction with its existing virtualization technology. This expansion is generally around either task aggregation or work observation, with a focus on different approaches to enhancing individual awareness of and simplification of tasks to be completed. The workspace may also include edge computing, IoT devices, and artificial intelligence (AI) for aggregation, execution, or organization of information/tasks.
Parallels RAS
According to IDC analysis and buyer perception, Parallels RAS, acquired by Corel in December 2018, is positioned in the Major Players category in the 2019–2020 IDC MarketScape for worldwide virtual client computing.
How to Save Time with Delegated Session Management in Parallels RAS
Customer Profile
The work-space customer is faced with a work environment that has reached a level of complexity that can no longer be sustained. The work-space customer needs a solution that allows work to be organized and automated across multiple systems of action and record, without direct intervention from the end user either individually or as a team. This work-space needs to extend to and encompass any device (edge, mobile, traditional PC, tablet, etc.) the end users may interact with.
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Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Virtual Client Computing 2019-2020 Vendor Assessment Report.