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whitePaper | August 11, 2020

Authentication technologies are front-burner tools to protect your network from COVID-19 pandemic email vulnerabilities. With attackers focusing on your users, common sense and technology go a long way. Scott Mace reports.Without letup the cyberattacks keep coming but they are not necessarily aimed at your network’s protocols or software vulnerabilities — at least, not at first. Instead, they maneuver themselves into part of your corporation’s most vulnerable infrastructure and manipulate your employees to fall for some email message that is not what it appears to be.

whitePaper | January 8, 2020

AI in manufacturing is a game-changer. It has the potential to transform performance across the breadth and depth of manufacturing operations. However, the massive potential of this new Industrial 4.0 era will only be realized if manufacturers really focus their efforts on where AI can add most value and then drive the solutions to scale.

whitePaper | December 27, 2022

Welcome back to our white paper series about how to use AI and data throughout the new business and underwriting processes. In the first white paper we discussed the importance of product design and the benefits of using AI.

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

Communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide have been using robotic process automation (RPA) for many years to automate repetitive, low­value tasks. RPA frees up employees to focus on what they do best: helping customers and being innovative. Fast forward to today and operators are building on RPA with artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver intelligent automation (IA), which has become a strategic tool to help them reimagine their businesses.

whitePaper | November 3, 2022

At Land O’Lakes, a member-owned cooperative agribusiness, farmers are using data and artificial intelligence to make smarter decisions. Over the past 30 years, corn farmers have used advances in bioengineering, chemicals, and analytics to boost their average yields by 50%, from 120 to 180 bushels per acre. T

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.