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Chris Burtenshaw, Strata Security: On cloud and IT complexity – and keeping off the front page – Cloud Tech
Times may change, but standards must remain. Or, rather, technologies may change but user behaviour remains. Shadow IT has been in place at many organisations long before the launch of the smartphone, and attempts to take control of it, from the clunkily-named bring your own PC (BYO PC), to the more streamlined BYOD, have been just as common.
Now, instead of just shadow IT, we have shadow cloud, as well as what Zscaler recently described as shadow IoT. Its all about complexity, and for security managers, keeping an ever-increasing circle of sharks at bay.
Chris Burtenshaw (left) is founder of Strata Security, a company which aims to provide joined up cybersecurity, removing the silos and giving easy-to-digest insight across an entire estate. With the better part of two decades experience as a cybersecurity consultant, Burtenshaw kept seeing the same requests from his clients. His response was to build out a scalable solution and thus Strata was born.
What typically would happen is, towards the end of an implementation for a very expensive monitoring tool maybe it was a multi-million pound project somebody would pop up and say how do we show this is delivering value? Burtenshaw tells CloudTech. The tools themselves arent necessarily the best place to show the context of the tool.
So what I ended up doing was building one-off snapshots, usually in Excel, that allowed them to see what their tools were doing, how those tools were performing, and how they worked with a real customer cybersecurity strategy.
It is safe to say the companys main product, Strata Insight, is a little more sophisticated than an Excel sheet. As the company puts it, Strata creates metrics that correlate to security control frameworks granting a new level of mastery over such controls. In this way, [it] helps reveal hidden risks, gaps and imbalances. To give a basic example, imagine you have one or more anti-malware tools, and want to know if they are up-to-date across all your systems. Strata brings that coverage data together, enabling you to quickly spot gaps plus track performance against controls.
The question of why such a solution is needed raises itself. Complexity is one thing, but should the security vendors themselves have a bigger part to play? What generally happens is there is a disjoint which comes in during the sales to implementation to delivery process, explains Burtenshaw. A product is typically bought to solve a specific, identified need, and often that can be a technology-driven process thats led to the selection of that particular product.
As the project continues, the focus then switches to business, he adds. Great, weve got this new, lovely, shiny thing, but how is it delivering all of our strategy?'
The exponential rise in cloud services usage be it companies dipping their toes into the water to others actively exploring multiple clouds for different workloads has been noted, even since the beginning of 2018, when Strata was founded. Most people now are very much taking something like a cloud-first approach as far as possible, says Burtenshaw. That combination of a smorgasbord of public and private cloud services, plus the traditional on-prem environment for large organisations, that isnt going anywhere.
From a security teams perspective, obviously youve got to identify what those clouds are, and make sure theyre secure, because as we all know it just takes one unpatched server somewhere in an uncontrolled environment and youre all over the front page.
This is a marked change from even five years ago. As Burtenshaw notes, the pre-cloud world was still complex, but in a different way. One of the biggest challenges for larger companies was mergers and acquisitions, he explains.
Then there would be different tools for different parts of each individual organisations environments or networks. You needed that sort of holistic view to look at for example the monitoring system used by company A, company B, company C, to get the big picture.
As things have evolved, youve still got that level of complexity plus the clouds that these organisations use.
While cloud is irrefutably here to stay, so for the time being at least is Covid-19. The pandemic has seen working practices change radically, which means even more headaches for security teams. Burtenshaw notes that the first thing to do is the boring stuff how is the company doing remote access and antivirus? How are we maintaining control of our workforce? but it is essential. Many security managers and officers that we work with are spending most of their time over the last few weeks approving quite difficult security control changes to enable that transition to happen, he says.
Speaking to Jeremy Snyder of DivvyCloud last week, he argued that, with the need for employees to do as much work as they can remotely, companies are good at making things happen but less good at cleaning up after themselves. Burtenshaw again cites complexity, but adds that there should be positives from this not least changing peoples attitudes to remote working long-term.
The good thing is were in a much stronger place than we would have been five years ago, he says. From a security perspective, there is a lot more data available that we can use to understand our security risks and threats in that changing model, and to understand where we need to remediate. For example, theres a lot more data about the security status of endpoints available through cloud services than there was five years ago.
Even if you do suddenly have 5000 people working remotely, you can find out how secure those devices are when theyre using them to work remotely, Burtenshaw adds. You do have a lot more information available about things that are outside of your traditional corporate network that you would have been concerned about five years ago.
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Our future is in the cloud and this AWS Cloud Bootcamp can get you ready for it. – The Next Web
TLDR: From first-timers to experienced users, The All-Level AWS Cloud Professional Bootcamp explains everything anybody needs to be a true AWS cloud expert.
Sometimes, it really does pay to be first. Back in 2006, Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos ventured into cloud computing with the foundation of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was a solid 7 years before most of Amazons main competitors started up their own cloud services arms, but by then, AWS already had a commanding foothold in the exploding market.
Now, AWS is the unquestioned industry leader, holding a dominant third of the entire cloud market, which is set to exceed $330 billion this year.
The opportunities are there for those looking to make a name for themself and start a career as a proven AWS expert with the training in The All-Level AWS Cloud Professional Bootcamp. Right now, its available for only $34.99, an over 90 percent savings from TNW Deals.
This complete look at the AWS environment includes six courses and more than 30 hours of training that will not only help new users understand the AWS platform, but know enough to build, migrate, secure, administer and grow any companys entire digital system with AWS well-stocked toolbox.
All the ground level training starts with AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Guide for Beginners, as first time users start getting familiar with AWS and all the services they offer.
Of course, even a detailed introduction is just the beginning, so courses like AWS Master Class: Databases in the Cloud with AWS RDS, focus on how to create and maintain your own cloud databases; while AWS MasterClass: Networking & Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), as students go deeper on specific steps for building, configuring and managing your our own Virtual Private Cloud. Meanwhile, AWS Deployment for Node.js Applications explains how AWS-served apps interact with online data stockpiles
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Connecting College Campuses Through Cloud Computing – EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
Rutgers already uses cloud solutions such as Box and Google Classroom for file sharing and collaboration, and students from one university campus can participate in a class taught at another using Cisco Webex Meetings. In this case, however, theyre on the same path as Juilliard: looking to Oracle to drive their back-end functions around finance, HR and student support.
From an end-user perspective, Law says, people arent going to notice where the systems are hosted, since weve always allowed them to access our systems no matter where they are.
But from her IT teams point of view?
Moving to the cloud makes a lot of sense, she says, both in terms of the management requirements and because now well always be up to date. With on-premises solutions, Law explains, usually were multiple versions behind. But once were in the cloud, well get those patches automatically, so well always have the newest features ready for us to utilize.
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The cloud, according to the Rutgers Office of Information Technology, is a major technology paradigm shift and a model of computing that has the potential to provide significant benefits to both users and organizations.
On their own, Oracles ERP, HCM and Student Cloud wont build the One Rutgers culture the university aims to create in the coming years. But, along with the other cloud solutions the university adopts, they will provide the flexibility, scalability, security and cost savings that an institution of Rutgers size requires to succeed.
Law says shes fully confident that Rutgers is heading in the right direction in its push to the cloud. The university and others like it will always have on-premises systems supported by a robust IT infrastructure. But the future, she predicts, will involve a lot of change. And the cloud, she says, will certainly be part of that transition.
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No Winner Likely In JEDI Court Battle; Just Pull The Plug?: Greenwalt – Breaking Defense
The Pentagons plan to consolidate many but not all of its 500-plus cloud contracts into a single Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI).
WASHINGTON: What looks like progress for the Pentagon in its five-month legal battle with Amazon Web Services is just a new variety of stalemate, a leading acquisition expert said.
Bill Greenwalt
The machinations of the legal system will continue to provide pyrrhic victories to DoD or some contractors, former Hill and Pentagon staffer Bill Greenwalt told me, but in the end, no matter what happens, DoD after almost three years struggling to make JEDI work will end up trailing the commercial IT market, as it has done now for decades.
The Department of Defense was already behind the curve when it comes to adopting cloud computing, Greenwalt said. Even government intelligence agencies have moved faster, let alone the private sector.
Look at the timelines, he told me. The cloud first appears at the CIA in 2013 and in the commercial marketplace in the 2000s. DOD was way behind the curve in 2017 when it started this acquisition.
Today, Greenwalt argued, because the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program is suffering so many delays while technology forges ahead, it is being litigated into irrelevance. By effectively dragging out the trial, the latest legal developments only make that worse.
If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined. King Pyrrhus of Epirus
What Went Wrong
On Friday, over Amazons bitter opposition, the chief judge of the Court of Federal Claims approved a Pentagon motion in the lawsuit over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. JEDI is a cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion that the Defense Department awarded to rival Microsoft unfairly and in large part due to President Trumps meddling, Amazon says.
The judge had already ordered Microsoft and the Defense Department to stop work on the project because Amazon had a reasonable chance to prove at least part of its case. While the Pentagon denies undue White House influence, it has admitted that it might have mishandled certain technical aspects of the competition, so it filed a motion to pause the cause and remand it back to DoD officials to try again.
Amazon argued the conditions of the Pentagons proposed do-over were so hopelessly narrow it wouldnt make a difference. The Pentagon and Microsoft countered that Amazon wanted terms so broad theyd effectively give it a second chance to bid with the unfair advantage that Amazon now knows exactly what price to put on its proposal to underbid Microsoft. Fridays ruling, while still under seal, effectively sided with the Pentagon.
We are pleased with the courts decision to grant our motion, said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Robert Carver. We will immediately execute the procedures outlined in the motion [and] we remain focused on delivering this critical capability to warfighters as quickly and efficiently as possible.
If your head is spinning from this simplified summary of a mind-bending legal matter and trust us, the technology is just as complex then Greenwalt has some good news for you. Ultimately, none of it matters.
It is just another example of how flawed this acquisition process has been from the start, he told me, and how the bid protest process has continued to torture DoD and blind it from pursuing alternative paths.
Its not just the trial thats a dead end for both sides. I think they have been wasting their time since the first Request For Proposals, Greenwalt said.
In fact, he suggested, the Department of Defense should have known this was going to be a mess from the start, based on recent history. The REAN protest in which an Amazon partner beat Oracle for an earlier Pentagon cloud contract in 2018, only for the GAO to overturn it should have given DoD an early indication that this was going to be a nasty process, with everyone eventually tainted by a brutal fight to the death over a winner-take-all procurement, Greenwalt told me.
The REAN award used an increasingly popular contracting mechanism called Other Transaction Authority (OTA), a law which Greenwalt helped draft. JEDI, likewise, tried to bypass the usual acquisition bureaucracy to get new technology in at the speed of Silicon Valley. But trying to run government procurement more like a business runs afoul of a fundamental problem. No private company lets losing bidders force it to do business with them; the government sometimes does.
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Time To Reboot
So what should the Defense Department have done differently from the start? What can it do differently now?
There were other options then and now DOD has even more options, Greenwalt said. It may be time to just pull the plug and start over, but there may be too much pride invested to do otherwise.
From the start, instead of focusing on one cloud to rule them all, DoD should have put all of the cloud providers on a IDIQ [Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity] contract and then issue task orders to those companies that met their security and operational standards for individual tasks, he said. In other words, rather than try to award the whole program to a single company, break it up into chunks and dole them out over time to different companies, based on whoever offered the best price and performance for that particular piece.
Now, the Pentagon insists it wont split the JEDI contract because it already has too many clouds. The different armed services, defense agencies, and their subunits are all signing different contracts on different terms over 500 of them. But, if you set clear standards and make your vendors stick to them, it is possible to have a single cloud computing system that works as a seamless whole, even if different companies provide different parts of it. In fact, that kind of multi-cloud approach is increasingly common in the commercial world.
If the Pentagon had gone multi-cloud from the start, it would have then been, for a change, ahead of the commercial market, Greenwalt said. It could have been experimenting with cloud providers and other solutions that manage multiple clouds for the last two years.
Even now, its not too late to try a different approach, he said. There are other clouds already being used at the services and defense agencies, Greenwalt told me. DoDs focus now should be to look at these experiments and where the commercial market is going. They may decide that, except for JEDIs cool name, it may already be obsolete, and a new strategy for secure cloud applications is needed.
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Cloud Computing Market to 2023 research: growing steady at 18.0% CAGR and projected to reach US$ 623.3 billion – WhaTech Technology and Markets News
The Global Cloud Computing Market size is expected to grow from USD 272.0 Billion in 2018 to USD 623.3 Billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.0% during the forecast period. This report spread across 174 pages, profiling 10 companies and supported with 66 tables and 35 figures are now available in this research. An exclusive data offered in this report is collected by research and industry experts team.
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The key features of IaaS include automated administrative tasks, dynamic scaling, platform virtualization, and network connectivity. IaaS enables enterprises to leverage their IT infrastructure without paying for the construction of the physical infrastructure. Moreover, it provides flexibility, mobility, easy, and scalable access to applications, and enhanced collaboration to help enterprises focus on their core businesses.
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The retail and consumer goods vertical is one of the fastest-growing verticals with respect to the adoption of emerging and innovative technologies, such as cloud computing, big data analytics, DevOps, digital stores, and social networks. Various factors driving this adoption are the rising purchasing power of customers and the need to satisfy customer expectations leading to the existing customer retention and new customer acquisition.
North America to hold the largest market size and Asia Pacific (APAC) to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period
North America is the most mature market in terms of cloud computing services adoption, due to several factors, such as the presence of many enterprises with advanced IT infrastructure, and availability of technical expertise. APAC is expected to offer significant growth opportunities for cloud computing vendors during the forecast period. Rapid advancements in emerging technologies, IT infrastructure services, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have led many organizations to adopt cloud computing services.
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Berkeley Lab’s Dan Martin Takes on New Role with the Exascale Computing Project – HPCwire
April 20, 2020 The U.S. Department of Energys Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Dan Martin, a computational scientist and group lead for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group in Berkeley Labs Computational Research Division, as team lead for their Earth and Space Scienceportfolio within ECP Application Development focus area. Martin replaces Anshu Dubey, a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
I am confident that Dans technical expertise and deep experience with the codes that are relevant to the ECP portfolio make him a good fit to replace me at ECP. Not only is he highly respected for his work, but his management style will mesh very well with the leadership team, said Dubey of Martins appointment, I have a vested interest as my project remains in Dans portfolio at ECP!
The ECPs Earth and Space Science project portfolio includes ExaSky, a project unraveling the mysteries surrounding the structure of the universe; ExaStar, focused on researching explosive astrophysical phenomena such as stellar explosions and neutron star mergers to gain insight into the cosmic origin of the elements and the behavior of matter; EQSIM, focused on modeling earthquakes and their impact on structures within an earthquake zone; Subsurface, a project probing the cracks in wellbores and reservoirs to reliably inform decisions pertaining to carbon capture, fossil fuel extraction, and waste disposal; and E3SM-MMF, research on resolving clouds at an unprecedented scale with advanced parameterization.
One of the exciting promises of the coming exascale age is the expertise to push our ability to do science into places that were inaccessible until now. Im excited that my role in ECP will support the practical development of this capability to study specific scientific problems, said Martin.
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The Computational Research Division conducts research and development in mathematical modeling and simulation, algorithm design, data storage, management and analysis, computer system architecture and high-performance software implementation. We collaborate directly with scientists across LBNL, the Department of Energy and industry to solve some of the worlds most challenging computational and data management and analysis problems in a broad range of scientific and engineering fields, including materials science, biology, climate modeling, astrophysics, fusion science, and many others. We also develop advanced capabilities for scientific data understanding through visualization and analytics. We perform research in high-performance computing (HPC) technology for extreme-scale computing systems, including research into performance optimization, performance analysis, benchmarking, and performance engineering of scientific applications, compilers, operating systems, and runtime systems. We also perform research in cloud computing, workflow tools, scheduling, computational frameworks and distributed systems. Our products range from peer-reviewed scientific publications to scientific research codes to end-to-end computational and data analysis capabilities that enable scientists and engineers to address complex and large-scale technical challenges.
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This hydrogen storage ‘sponge’ could be the key to safer EV fuel cells – The Next Web
A group of scientists claim to have made a breakthrough that addresses one of the biggest challenges associated with hydrogen cars. It could make hydrogen electric vehicles (HEVs) safer and give a significant bump to the distance they can travel on one tank.
Researchers led by scientists from Northwestern University, Illinois, say they have developed a metallic sponge-like material thats capable of storing greater quantities of hydrogen at much lower and safer pressures when compared to conventional tanks.
[Read: BMW readies for hydrogen-powered X5 tests in 2022]
Its like a bath sponge but with very ordered cavities, Prof Omar Farha, from Northwestern University in Evanston, US, told the BBC. You can wipe up spilled water with a sponge, and reuse the water by squeezing the sponge, they added.
With the new material, the scientists apply the same principle, using pressure to store and release [hydrogen] gas molecules.
Conventional tanks store hydrogen in liquid form at pressures some 300 times greater than car tires, around 10,000 psi (700 bar). As a result, these tanks must be robust and have thick walls, and that makes them costly to produce. Using current technologies, most hydrogen-powered EVs can only really be driven around 500 km (around 300 miles) on one tank.
Immense pressures are needed because hydrogen is incredibly light and not that dense. According to a BBC report, to store 1 kg of hydrogen at ambient pressures, youd need an 11,000 liter tank. So its not all that practical at the moment.
But using the metallic sponge, officially called NU-1501, tanks could be made with thinner walls and larger capacities, simultaneously giving a bump to HEVs range and safety.
Many automakers are leaning on battery technology for the electric vehicles. But others, like Toyota and BMW, are also exploring hydrogen technologies.
Earlier this year, BMW announced the next generation of its hydrogen fuel cell drivetrain, and casually mentioned that real world tests would begin in the next couple of years.
For those drivers, hydrogen cars could be the easy answer, as fueling is pretty. In the UK, industry bodies estimate that some 40% of households dont have access to off-street parking to charge EVs.
For those drivers, hydrogen cars could be the easy answer as fueling is pretty much the exact same process as for a gasoline car.
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*Disclaimer: Its not actually a sponge like the one in the header image.
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Who will be the winners in a post-pandemic economy? – World Economic Forum
COVID-19 is putting the global economy into a tailspin. Many countries are heading for very sudden and unprecedented recession. This crisis will catalyze some huge changes. Few industries will avoid being either reformed, restructured or removed. Agility, scalability and automation will be the watchwords for this new era of business, and those that have these capabilities now will be the winners.
Thanks to government stimulus packages, liquidity is coming back to the market. It will keep enough of the economy afloat so that it can climb out of recession rapidly once the various lockdowns are lifted. But the way much of it is structured means that it will likely benefit already better capitalized larger businesses, over the smaller operators who may struggle.
It would be an over-simplification, however, to paint this new era as one of big versus small, or incumbents versus upstarts. The past decades tropes that pitted fintechs and digital natives against big banks and consumer brands will seem dated by the middle of this year.
Indeed, one could see the current times as the first real test of the digital-first business mantras that have been extolled over the first part of this century. COVID-19 will force a rebirth of many industries as we all sit at home in lockdown, re-assessing and re-imagining modes of consumption, supply, interaction and productivity. As president of a global technology firm, what intrigues me is where there will be paradigm shifts, as opposed to just existing trends either accelerating or decelerating.
For instance, the shift from cash to digital payments is clearly accelerating. My WEF Council colleague Huw Van Steenis, who is chair of the sustainable finance committee at UBS, highlighted that 31 countries have lifted contactless payment limits this year to support social distancing measures. In the UK, ATM usage was already falling between 6% and 14% a year, but has now plummeted by more than half. As he argued in his Future of Finance report, this has major implications for: the resilience of payment forms young and old; for banks business models; and society, as we work to ensure no-one is left behind in an increasingly digital economy.
In the workplace were already seeing a super-charging of the nascent bring your own device (BYOD) trend in business technology. As people scramble to work and socialize remotely, previously niche tools such as Zoom, Slack, Microsofts Teams, and even the Houseparty app, are suddenly supporting millions of personal and corporate interactions every minute.
Those businesses that have designed their solutions to use the full potential of cloud computing, will not buckle under the pressure. For instance, the cloud gives businesses easy access to digital payment methods. It has enabled companies to continue working, by rapidly and securely providing access to business applications to their employees working at home. Yet it also provides financial flexibility, allowing those seeing a slow-down to wind down the technology costs of business lines that are facing challenges.
Meanwhile, supply chains are having to reconfigure themselves in real time. As the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators and other medication spikes, manufacturers are having to retool and reinvent themselves. For instance, the Royal Mint turned its hand to producing medical visors, while Dyson and many other manufacturers, large and small, are producing ventilators or PPE.
As large grocery retailers struggle to manage queues of disgruntled customers, smart local restaurants have been quick to turn themselves into retailers repurposing their restaurant supply chains towards end consumers.
A new strain of Coronavirus, COVID 19, is spreading around the world, causing deaths and major disruption to the global economy.
Responding to this crisis requires global cooperation among governments, international organizations and the business community, which is at the centre of the World Economic Forums mission as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
The Forum has created the COVID Action Platform, a global platform to convene the business community for collective action, protect peoples livelihoods and facilitate business continuity, and mobilize support for the COVID-19 response. The platform is created with the support of the World Health Organization and is open to all businesses and industry groups, as well as other stakeholders, aiming to integrate and inform joint action.
As an organization, the Forum has a track record of supporting efforts to contain epidemics. In 2017, at our Annual Meeting, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched bringing together experts from government, business, health, academia and civil society to accelerate the development of vaccines. CEPI is currently supporting the race to develop a vaccine against this strand of the coronavirus.
This combination of scalable and agile capabilities is what will define the short and medium-term success of businesses, whether large or small. But in the longer term, change will have to be more fundamental. Resilience, combined with agility, must be the new focus of business leaders as we all emerge from this crisis.
To create long-term resilience we will likely see further robotic automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within our supply chains. These technologies reduce manual intervention and hand-offs, cutting transmission risks, and reducing the reliance on humans to work face-to-face. They can also enable production to scale and shrink in response to sudden demand.
Indeed, government interventions may have unintentionally accelerated this trend. Many countries fiscal stimuli amount to the largest scale experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) to date. UBI is considered by many to be a prerequisite for a successful AI-driven economy by enabling businesses to potentially replace humans without impacting their welfare.
Its clear that this crisis will cull a lot of outdated practices, yet many more than we might think will continue. We will always want to travel, to eat out, to be entertained, and to have experiences in person. Just dont expect any of these activities to be unchanged. Or to be delivered by the same brands, and by the same means to which weve become accustomed.
We will emerge from this period stronger, wiser and more connected as a global society. Resilience will be at the forefront of every strategy, yet it is agility that will ensure competitiveness, and an ability to respond to the unexpected. To achieve this, businesses will have to re-evaluate where they must be strong and where they must be flexible.
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Written by
Mohit Joshi, President; Head, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Infosys Limited
The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
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Who will be the winners in a post-pandemic economy? - World Economic Forum