2018 Cybersecurity: Perceptions & Practices

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

China is following a national strategy to lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, including by pursuing “general AI” that can act autonomously in novel circumstances. Open-source research identifies 30 Chinese institutions engaged in one or more of this project‘s aspects, including machine learning, brain-inspired AI, and brain-computer interfaces. This report previews a CSET pilot program that will track China’s progress and provide timely alerts.

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

The demands of running global supply chains can be unrelenting – perfection of operations, innovation in support of lastmile delivery, and assurances of sustainability in the pursuit of delivering the “perfect order” as promised. Now, transportation companies face the additional challenge of sharpening their core competencies while increasing the pace of innovation, adapting emerging technologies, and sharing data with their customers to improve transparency and efficiency. Long characterized by capital-intensive assets, forward-looking cargo companies are turning their attention to the data that comes from their own assets and infrastructure as well as from their customers. It is a complex transition, one that requires knowledge-based labor, automation, and predictive planning to turn transportation companies into digital platforms.

whitePaper | April 16, 2020

A well-built store—one that is consistent with others under a retailer’s umbrella—is a powerful tool for communicating a brand. In fact, arguably nothing (beyond the product itself) is a more tangible signifier of the brand than the store environment. This puts the store planning team in the position of acting as brand managers and means that for the construction manager, whether he/she is employed in house by the retail company or as a contractor specializing in retail construction, understanding the brand (the retailer’s goals, visions, and marketing strategies) is a cornerstone of day-to-day work.

whitePaper | November 23, 2022

The modern distributed workplace—including enterprises with thousands of branches and remote workers—requires updated approaches to cloud, networking, and security infrastructure. Cloud migration has opened the door to a huge increase in sophisticated applications, requiring networks that can carry traffic to an increasingly remote workforce. In turn, this creates a unique set of new requirements for security, including special capabilities to handle unpredictable locations of users, applications, and traffic flows.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Low code and no code (LCNC) development platforms expedite the creation of new applications with minimal or no coding requirements, as well as offer tools for non-programmers to create applications of their own. Low code development was introduced in the early 2000s to increase developer productivity. It uses a variety of approaches that automate and abstract application development activities, such as drag and drop editors, code generation, component assembly and model-driven development.

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

An accident that will leave its mark. Yesterday morning, Mrs. D., an employee of the Pharma4.0 factory in Valenciennes, had her right wrist broken by an InCobot handling robot during an ordinary operation that until now had never caused any problems. In this factory, the operation called “pick and place” of cough syrup bottles is performed jointly by human operators and robotic arms in the same work area, and this on many stations.