According to Veeam’s 2020 Data Protection Trends Report, 95% of global organizations suffer unexpected outages – lasting an average of almost two hours. For High Priority applications, which account for over half of a company’s applications, one hour of downtime is estimated to cost $67,651. Application such as email, payments, websites and mobile apps, one outage costs an average of over $135,000.

“Organizations have a tremendous opportunity to digitally transform businesses with 5G and cloud capabilities like artificial intelligence and machine learning at edge. We are proud to partner with Ericsson to build a foundation for communications service providers and enterprises alike to take advantage of cloud technology and cloud-native services, from telecom network core to the edge and enterprise premises.”

Accelerated development and simplified management across workloads. Red Hat OpenShift 4.8, based on Kubernetes 1.21 and CRI-O 1.21 runtime interface, further simplifies developer experience while helping expand the use cases and workload possibilities across industries.

Telecommunications is Tech Mahindra’s forte, and the company has been transforming and modernizing CSPs for over 30 years. As part of the TechMNxt charter, Tech Mahindra has a deep focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver an enhanced experience to customers and is currently engaged with multiple service providers globally.

While analyzing an attack against a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization, we discovered a variant of an OilRig-associated tool we call RDAT using a novel email-based command and control (C2) channel that relied on a technique known as steganography to hide commands and data within bitmap images attached to emails.