Critical Infrastructure Security , Governance & Risk Management , Operational Technology (OT)

If software is eating the world, cloud computing is eating infrastructure. Look no further than a push for cloud-hosted alternatives to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems.

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Traditionally, SCADA systems have been the antithesis of cloud: heavily localized, air gapped and monolithic. But not anymore, said the U.K. National Cyber Security Center. "During engagement with industry, the NCSC has noticed a clear shift in the attitude toward using the cloud for industrial applications," the cybersecurity agency said Monday.

Where once the operational technology world dismissed cloud computing out of hand, "organizations are now looking to the cloud for solutions," the center said in guidance it published to inform a risk-based assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of cloud SCADA.

Cloud-hosted SCADA presents both opportunities and challenges for OT organizations, the agency said. While the flexibility and scalability offered by cloud platforms can enhance resilience and enable the adoption of new technologies, the NCSC warned that a shift to the cloud fundamentally alters traditional management and security boundaries, necessitating careful consideration of connectivity models and access control mechanisms.

Cybersecurity should be a major consideration, the NCSC said, and it urged organizations to review its cloud security guidance.

The cloud SCADA guidance also addresses concerns surrounding data sensitivity and emphasizes the importance of implementing adequate security controls, including encryption measures for data at rest and in transit.

The NCSC advises OT organizations to collaborate closely with cloud service providers and SCADA vendors to ensure that security needs are met effectively.

Organizational readiness is a key focus of the guidance, and the NCSC highlights the importance of assessing the availability of necessary skills, policies and processes to support a shift to the cloud.

The guidance recommends that OT organizations invest in building internal expertise or consider engaging managed service providers with cloud-specific skills to support their migration strategy.

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Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of fun! The 4-hour live stream was packed with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3.

AWS Pi Day 2024 Twitch live stream on March 14, 2024

In case you missed the live stream, you can watch the recording. Well also update the AWS Pi Day 2024 post on community.aws this week with show notes and session clips.

Last weeks launches Here are some launches that got my attention:

Anthropics Claude 3 Haiku model is now available in Amazon Bedrock Anthropic recently introduced the Claude 3 family of foundation models (FMs), comprising Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and most compact model in the family, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Check out Channys post for more details. In addition, my colleague Mike shows how to get started with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on community.aws.

Up to 40 percent faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks up to 40 percent faster and has a new event calledCONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this event, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent resources within a stack, speeding up the whole process. The new event also gives users more controlto shortcut their stack creation process in scenarios where a resource consistency check is unnecessary. To learn more,read this AWS DevOps Blog post.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its model registry integration SageMaker Canvas has extended its model registry integration to include time series forecasting models and models fine-tuned through SageMaker JumpStart. Users can now register these models to the SageMaker Model Registry with just a click. This enhancement expands the model registry integration to all problem types supported in Canvas, such as regression/classification tabular models and CV/NLP models. It streamlines the deployment of machine learning (ML) models to production environments. Check the Developer Guide for more information.

Other AWS news Here are some additional news items, open source projects, and Twitch shows that you might find interesting:

Build On Generative AI Season 3 of your favorite weekly Twitch show about all things generative AI isin full swing! Streaming every Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko discuss different aspects of generative AI and invite guest speakers to demo their work. In todays episode, guest Martyn Kilbryde showed how to build a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws.

Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch TheAmazon S3 Connector for PyTorchnow lets PyTorch Lightning users save model checkpoints directly to Amazon S3. Saving PyTorch Lightning model checkpoints is up to 40 percent faster with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance storage. You can now also save, load, and delete checkpoints directly from PyTorch Lightning training jobs to Amazon S3.Check out the open source project on GitHub.

AWS open source news and updates My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open source newsletter in which he highlights new open source projects, tools, and demos from the AWS Community.

Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events:

AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 TheNVIDIA GTC 2024developer conference is taking place this week (March 1821) in San Jose, CA. If youre around, visit AWS at booth #708 to explore generative AI demos and get inspired by AWS, AWS Partners, and customer experts on the latest offerings in generative AI, robotics, and advanced computing at the in-booth theatre.Check out the AWS sessions and request 1:1 meetings.

AWS Summits Its AWS Summit season again! The first one is Paris (April 3), followed by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 1011), London (April 24), Berlin (May 1516), and Seoul (May 1617). AWS Summits are a series of free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS.

AWS re:Inforce Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 1012) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a learning conference focused on AWS security solutions, cloud security, compliance, and identity. Connect with the AWS teams that build the security tools and meet AWS customers to learn about their security journeys.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.

Thats all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

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Nvidia Corp. today announced that its expandingOmniverse Cloudwith application programming interfaces, which will open up the platform for industrial digital twin applications and software developers.

Omniverse acts as a collaborative metaverse platform for developers, artists and engineers to visualize and generate 3D models of projects. Objects simulated within Omniverse, also known as digital twins, act and react with hyperrealistic physics simulation of real-world objects and the platform provides a collaborative solution for users and enterprise teams.

Omniverse Cloud is a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution for artists, developers and teams to use the platform to design, publish and operate metaverse applications anywhere in the world.

Everything manufactured will have digital twins, Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang said ahead of the companys annual GTC conference in San Jose, California. Omniverse is the operating system for building and operating physically realistic digital twins. Omniverse and generative AI are the foundational technologies to digitalize the $50 trillion heavy industries market.

At the GTC 2024 developer conference, Nvidia announced five new Omniverse Cloud APIs, which can be used individually or in combination to connect applications or workflows to the platform for interoperability usingOpenUSD, a high-performance extensible format for describing animated 3D scenes for large-scale film and visual effects production.

These new APIs include USD Render, USD Write, USD Query, USD Notify and Omniverse Channel. These APIs permit the ability to generate ray-traced RTX renders with OpenUSD data, modify and interact with data, query scene data, track USD changes and connect users, tools and worlds to enable collaboration. With these capabilities, developers could create windows from applications into Omniverse Cloud, allowing metaverse scenes and digital twins to be pulled directly into software.

Through the Nvidia Omniverse API, Siemens empowers customers with generative AI to make their physics-based digital twins even more immersive, said Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens AG. This will help everybody to design, build and test next-generation products, manufacturing processes and factories virtually before they are built in the physical world.

The same Omniverse Cloud APIs open up the ability to stream Omniverse Clouds capabilities to Nvidias Graphics Delivery Network, a global network of data centers for streaming 3D experiences to Apples Vision Pro mixed reality headset.

Nvidia demonstrated how Omniverse-based workflows could be combined with Vision Pros high-resolution displays using the companys RTX cloud rendering capabilities to produce visually stunning experiences with just the device and an internet connection. The cloud-based approach allows real-time physically based renderings of virtual objects, called digital twins, to be streamed directly to the Vision Pro, in high fidelity making the visuals true to reality, the company said.

The Vision Pro headset is capable of mixed reality, where the headset uses cameras and sensors on the front to pass through a view of what the user sees and then overlays 3D renders of objects onto the real world. The headset can also generate immersive virtual reality experiences, where the view itself is completely computer-generated. Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook referred to the device as a spatial computer when it was unveiled, touting its ability to connect the virtual and the physical.

The breakthrough ultra-high-resolution displays of Apple Vision Pro, combined with photorealistic rendering of OpenUSD content streamed from Nvidia accelerated computing, unlocks an incredible opportunity for the advancement of immersive experiences, said Mike Rockwell, vice president of the Vision Products Group at Apple. Spatial computing will redefine how designers and developers build captivating digital content, driving a new era of creativity and engagement.

With the introduction of Apple Vision Pro, developers can combine remote cloud rendering and local on-device rendering. That means users can render fully interactive digital twins and experiences using Apples native SwiftUI and Reality Kit using Omniverse RTX Renderer streaming through GDN.

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DUBLIN, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --The"Global Fax Services Market - Outlook & Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added toResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global fax services market was valued at USD 3.18 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach a value of $5.96 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 11.05%

The global fax services market leaders are directing their efforts towards various essential business approaches, encompassing partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, product advancements, and collaborative ventures, all designed to broaden their product offerings and augment their market presence across diverse geographical regions.

The strategies related to expansion and investments encompass a spectrum of strategic initiatives, ranging from investments in research and development endeavors to establishing new manufacturing facilities and optimizing supply chains. Moreover, numerous vendors focus on improving their services by investing in R&D, technological advancements, and product development.

North America is experiencing robust growth in the fax services market, owing to the increasing demand for high-speed internet access and the widespread adoption of advanced fax technologies. Moreover, North America held the largest global fax services market share in 2022. The rapid proliferation of accessible and affordable internet connections, the rising popularity of cloud-based software and services, and businesses' imperative to enhance workflow efficiency and reduce operational costs contribute to regional market growth.

In fax services, technological convergence involves the incorporation of fax functionalities into enterprise resource planning (ERP), systems applications and products (SAP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The emergence of various cutting-edge technologies, including 5G, Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, IoT, automated intelligence, cloud computing, and digital fax solutions, drive the fax services market. These innovations are expected to propel the market's growth during the forecast period.

Key drivers for the fax services market include the attributes of cloud-based fax services, which offer flexibility, high performance, and reliability to organizations seeking seamless fax communication from their ERPs, desktops, or other business applications. Automation, particularly as a feature of computer-based fax services, is in high demand, notably among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises operating in transaction-intensive environments.

Compared to alternative methods such as e-mail and web-based document transfer, the robust privacy advantages make the faxing services stand out compared to its competitors and are anticipated to catalyze market growth. Numerous vendors are offering HIPAA-compliant fax solutions, a move aimed at enticing healthcare providers to adopt fax services, thereby contributing to the robust market growth.

FAX SERVICES MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS

Increasing Online Scam and Data Breaches

For numerous corporations today, faxing remains an essential mode of communication, as fax is considered more than e-mail. Moreover, law enforcement and healthcare sectors are the major drivers of the fax services market because of stringent legal requirements governing the secure transfer of sensitive data.

Additionally, in 2022, nearly 3.6 million Russian internet users experienced breaches, marking an 11% increase. Such instances further propel the use of fax and its respective services to protect organizations from growing online scams and security concerns.

Rising Telecom Industry

The increasing telecom industry drives the global fax services market, using reliable, secure, cost-effective communication solutions to secure customer data.

Further, the rising expenditure on the implementation of 5G infrastructures, driven by changing consumer preferences toward cutting-edge technologies and smartphone devices, has increased the adoption of cloud-based fax services by the telecom industry because this service enables the transmission of exact documents over telecommunications networks and internet, which act a bridge among traditional and digital fax technology.

INDUSTRY RESTRAINTS

Unstructured Data

One of the reasons businesses continue to use fax is its extensive acceptance across numerous IT systems. However, since fax is a frequently supported messaging protocol, it is a capable interoperability standard. Although one of the downsides of fax is the nature of the file, it is an image file that might contain data.

SEGMENTATION INSIGHTS

INSIGHTS BY USER TYPE

The global fax services market by user type is segmented into large enterprises, small & medium enterprises (SMEs), and individuals & home offices. The large enterprises segment dominated the global market in 2022.

Large enterprises are characterized by a workforce exceeding 50 individuals and often encompassing Fortune 1000 companies, representing a substantial revenue source in the global automated fax market. They are primary contributors to international faxing revenue as well. Regardless of the deployment model, the large enterprises segment is one of the highest revenue contributors to the global market.

The major factors driving the migration to cloud-based fax services are reduced operational cost, improved productivity through automation, and increased flexibility and scalability. Large enterprises are involved in transferring thousands of faxes every month. Moreover, Apple uses the secure and reliable online fax service Fax App, which can turn an iPhone or iPad into a powerful fax machine and send faxes anytime, anywhere. All sent and received faxes are stored in a fully encrypted archive for further use and can be easily accessed without delay when required.

INSIGHTS BY SERVICE TYPE

The on-premises service type segment dominated the global fax services market in 2022. Enhanced control over data storage, high configurability, and customizability are prominent factors that propel the segment growth. These solutions also present integration options that can be tailored to align with the specific operational requirements of end-user businesses.

Furthermore, organizations operating in-house fax infrastructure and owning data centers and colocation facilities will likely prefer this operation mode. This will probably drive revenue growth in this segment during the forecast period. Open Text is the major player in this market, installing more than 100,000 RightFax on-premises fax servers. Vendors also offer desktop software solutions that can be integrated with the existing office mail system and other applications to transfer fax documents.

INSIGHTS BY INDUSTRY-USERS

The global fax services market by industry users is segmented as healthcare, banking, financial services, & insurance (BFSI), legal, manufacturing, and others. The healthcare industry user segment held the largest segmental share in the market. The healthcare sector is highly regulated, and securing patient information and maintaining privacy is important.

Although e-mails are an alternative to fax services, they are highly vulnerable, risking privacy. Many healthcare organizations use fax server (FOIP) solutions to transfer fax documents. Increased operational expenditure and initiatives towards operating a green environment are aiding the growth of the cloud-based fax services market.

Fax Services Market Overview

Market Opportunities & Trends

Market Growth Enablers

Market Restraints

Key Company Profiles

Other Prominent Vendors

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