Infosys can once again become bellwether of IT industry: Sikka

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Leveraging next generation technologies like artificial intelligence, software servicesmajor Infosys is confident of returning to industry-leading growth and regaining its position as the bellwether of the over $100 billion Indian IT industry.

Vishal Sikka, who took over as CEO of the Bangalore-based firm in August, has been tasked with putting the firm back on the growth trajectory at par with peers like TCS and HCL Technologies.

"Infosys was founded on this notion, the dream, an idea of a next generation services company with a global delivery model and of pioneering things... We believe we can get back to that consistent profitable growth as well as achieve great growth and once again becoming a bellwether of the IT industry," Sikka said.

He added that he looked forward to leading an Infosys that can grow significantly and achieve great profitability.

In the last 70 days since assuming office, Sikka has been engaging actively with partners, customers and employees.

"We, at Infosys, see a tremendous opportunity in this world that we are emerging into. We have to ourselves deal with this duality of on one hand, renewing our existingservices and on the other hand, complementing that with new kind of services," he said.

The former SAP board member said the company wants to up the ante on innovation in area of big data, automation, analytics, artificial intelligence etc.

He added that the gap between Infosys and its rivals will not be bridged with practices of the past like merely lowering costs and faster hiring but rather with massiveembrace of automation and innovation.

Asked when the company expected to perform at par with industry rate, Sikka said he would stick to the three-year journey that Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy had spoken about.

The nature of the business is such that there is an inherent latency in the adoption and in being able to see the results, he added.

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NATO #39;s new secretary-general pledged support for its eastern allies during his first foreign visit to Poland. Speaking in Warsaw, Jens Stoltenberg tried to reassure Poland and the Baltics that...

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Fidel Castro compares NATO chief to ISIS

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HAVANA -- Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has jumped to the defense of Russia, comparing the new NATO chief to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in an article penned Monday evening.

Reacting to statements made Sunday by the new NATO secretary-general, former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Castro wrote: "How much hate in the face! What an incredible determination to promote a war of extermination against the Russian Federation!"

Stoltenberg spoke in Poland saying the Western alliance could deploy its forces wherever it wants. His statements were generally seen as a reaction to Russia's recent behavior in Crimea and Ukraine and as intended to reassure Poland, a NATO member, that it would be protected in the event of any Russian moves against it.

New North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of Norway speaks at his first press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on October 1, 2014.

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Castro, however, described the NATO chief's remarks as fanaticism comparable to that of ISIS.

"Who turns out to be more extremist than the very fanatics of the Islamic State?" he wrote in the article published by the Cuban media Tuesday. "What religion do they practice? After this, is it possible to enjoy eternal life on the right side of the Lord?"

Although a NATO summit a month ago turned down appeals from Eastern European NATO members to station thousands of troops there permanently, Stoltenberg, who as Castro points out became NATO chief just six days ago, appeared to take a harder line in Poland.

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Nato chief heads to Turkey for Syria crisis talks

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The Syrian civil war and march of Isil, also known as Isis or Islamic State, into Iraq has left Nato with a crisis on its south eastern flank, even as it is also faces Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Nato last year send three Patriot missile batteries to Turkey after Ankara called for alliance help to protect its cities against the threat of missile attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Syrian regime rockets are still falling close to the Turkish border and the meetings will agree to keep the batteries, which were sent by Holland, Germany and the US, for as long as needed.

Turkey has yet to request further help to deal with the Syrian crisis, but sources said Mr Stoltenberg would be open to suggestions.

The source said: They have not made an official request, but these types of visit can throw things up. Hes going to sit down with the leadership and discuss the crisis.

Air strikes by a US-led coalition of countries battling Isil have redoubled around Kobane since Isil fighters hoisted their black flag on the eastern edge of the town earlier in the week.

Outgunned Kurdish fighters defending the town have faced an assault from three sides and artillery barrages.

The Turkish President warned on Tuesday that Kobane was "about to fall", saying a ground operation was needed to defeat the fighters.

"I am telling the West dropping bombs from the air will not provide a solution," he said.

Mr Stoltenberg earlier this week visited Poland, which has called for more protection from the alliance to deter Russian aggression.

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NSA IT, a better interface for CBP, data worries and more

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NSA looks to IT to lock down systems, protect privacy

The National Security Agency spent about $30 million and devoted 300 people to compliance efforts in 2013, according to the Oct. 7 report of the agency's Civil Liberties and Privacy Office.

The recent report covers signals intelligence collection for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence authorized under Executive Order 12333, and specifically the rights of U.S. persons whose data is caught up in the NSA dragnet. The NSA uses a mix of training, compliance procedures, and compartmentalization of activities as part of overall efforts to minimize exposure of data on U.S. persons to unauthorized use. From an IT perspective, NSA efforts address data privacy and insider threat concerns. The NSA is researching in an area called Private Information Retrieval with the goal of improving "data security and privacy protection by cryptographically preventing unauthorized users from accessing protected data," per the report. The research taps commercial technology to secure the computing environment, validate program activity, secure searches, and minimize harm when adverse activity is detected.

The CLPO was established in Jan. 2014 to "ensure that civil liberties and privacy protection considerations are integrated into NSA's mission activities."

Scott Belcher, president and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, was named CEO of the Telecommunications Industry Association. He will step into the newly created post Nov. 9.

Belcher's diverse management experience spans 25 years and covers both public- and private-sector roles -- including a seven year term with ITS America, four years as executive vice president and general counsel for the National Academy of Public Administration and five years as managing director for environmental affairs and associate general counsel for the Air Transport Association, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Customs and Border Protection has added a new automated broker's interface query capability to its automated commercial environment, which allows international shippers to request cargo, manifest and entry record status information on file in the ACE system. The query capability, said the agency, will be available on Oct. 18 for ABI filers.

According to CBP, the capabilities the new cargo query will provide include processing status for an ACE cargo release entry, cargo manifest details and other key shipping data. The agency has set Oct. 1, 2015, as the deadline for mandatory use of ACE for all electronic filings in its cargo processing system.

Social media giant Twitter sued the U.S. government on Oct. 7, alleging that restrictions on disclosures of the scope of government surveillance of Twitter users are unconstitutional.

The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleged that "the U.S. government engages in extensive but incomplete speech about the scope of its national security surveillance activities as they pertain to U.S. communications providers, while at the same time prohibiting service providers such as Twitter from providing their own."

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NSA spying will shatter the internet, Silicon Valley bosses warn

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Top Silicon Valley execs have warned that the NSA's continued surveillance of innocent people will rupture the internet which is bad news for business.

Oh, and bad news for hundreds of thousands of workers, and America's moral authority, too.

The suits were speaking at a roundtable organized by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday. Google's chairman Eric Schmidt and John Lilly, a partner at venerable VC firm Greylock Partners, were on the panel, along with Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith and his counterpart at Facebook, Colin Stretch, and Dropbox, Ramsey Homsany.

"It is time to end the digital dragnet, which harms American liberty and the American economy without making the country safer. The US government should stop requiring American companies to participate in the suspicionless collection of their customers data, and begin the process of rebuilding trust both at home and abroad," said Senator Wyden.

"The United States here in Silicon Valley, up in the Silicon Forest of the State of Oregon that I am so proud to represent, and in tech campuses and garage start-ups across the country has the best technologies and the best ideas to drive high-tech innovation. It is policy malpractice to squander that capital for no clear security gain."

The assembled speakers echoed Wyden's sentiments, and agreed that unless the US government reined in its intelligence agencies, American business would suffer badly.

"The simplest outcome [of NSA spying] is that we end up breaking the internet," Google's Schmidt said.

"What's going to happen is that governments will bring in bad laws and say 'we want our own internet and we dont want to work with others.' The cost of that is huge to knowledge and science, and has huge implications."

Schmidt said he had spent the summer in Germany talking to, among others, Chancellor Angela Merkel. She had told him of her youth growing up in East Germany and said that the knowledge that the NSA were listening to her calls to her mother reminded her of chilling Cold War surveillance.

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The Office of the National Security Adviser has called for stronger media collaboration between the media and security agencies in the ongoing counter terrorism operation in the country.

The Special Adviser to the National Security Adviser on Economic Matters, Prof. Soji, Adelaja, made the comment while representing the NSA, Sambo Dasuki, at a three-day seminar entitled Security/Media Relations in Crisis Management which held under the chairmanship of the a former Chief of Defence Staff, and Chairman of Sure-P, Gen. Martin-Luther Agwa,i in Abuja on Wednesday.

The seminar was attended by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Keneth Minmah, the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosun, representatives of heads of all security and paramilitary agencies in the country.

Adelaja said the media had critical role to play in the current security challenges facing the country.

He said it was important for the media to give priority attention to need to avoid misinforming the public and promote the general interest of the people and the country.

He added that the media should take into cognisance the fact that the terrorists would always exploit the media as an instrument to communicate to the people in a bid to target the nations unity.

He said, The NSA is very excited that this meeting of the minds is happening right here is Abuja at a very critical time in the history of our nation. We know for a fact that this is a time when we are facing very significant security challenges and the media has a tremendous responsibility to discharge during this period.

We know for a fact that terrorists, part of their strategy is actually to leverage the media in communicating with the people. It is very very important that the media is diligent in its work, decipher facts from misinformation, understanding the role that they have in balancing the interest of the people, the interest of government and of course recognising that the insurgents are seeking to tear at the heart of what holds our country together.

Adelaja said while the media had done very well more was expected from them.

The media in Nigeria has done a very god job today but much more could be done. We are all learning, this issue of the insurgency is so new to us. In fact it is so new to the world. So it extremely important that we learn fast, we should understand our roles and responsibilities, not only as pressmen, media men but as citizens as we carry out our duties in informing the Nigerian people, he said.

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