Two-day Event Features Sessions and Speakers Focused on Cybersecurity Disruption and Crypto-agility Best Practices

CLEVELAND, Ohio – September 29, 2020 – Keyfactor, the leader in crypto-agility solutions, today announced its inaugural digitally delivered conference, the Critical Trust Virtual Summit, which will take place on October 21-22, 2020. The two-day online event will offer more than 15 sessions and panels delivered by industry-leading innovators and practitioners specializing in crypto-agile best practices across IT, security, engineering and DevOps.

“The first half of 2020 shone a spotlight on the importance for the enterprise to quickly adapt to ever-changing security events,” said Jordan Rackie, CEO at Keyfactor. “Learning how to achieve crypto-agility is vitally important for businesses as they prepare for the next wave of cybersecurity disruption. The Critical Trust Virtual Summit will provide the content and tools leaders and practitioners need as they work to restore, create and maintain trust in the business.”

The Critical Trust Virtual Summit includes panels and sessions featuring top industry experts focused on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) best practices, certificate lifecycle automation, zero trust manufacturing and future industry trends. Event presenters, industry partners and highlighted sessions include:

• Microsoft– Looking Past the Pandemic: Futureproofing Against Data Risk
• Morgan Stanleyand Mastercard–  Leadership in Cybersecurity: Insights from FinServ Experts
• HID– Reign in Your Rogue Admins: Best Practices for Managing SSL/TLS Certificates
• Abbottand General Motors– Real-world Results for IoT Device Design Manufacturers
• M&T Bankand Sensata Technologies– Lessons Learned from PKI Experts
• ISARAand Thales– What to Watch Out for in 2021: Top Trends in Crypto
• Infinite Ranges– Securing the CI/CD Pipeline Without Disrupting Developers

IT, DevOps and security leaders and practitioners can register for their free Critical Trust Summit pass by visiting: https://summit.keyfactor.com/.

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About Keyfactor

Keyfactor empowers enterprises of all sizes to close their critical trust gap – when breaches, outages and failed audits from digital certificates and keys impact brand loyalty and the bottom line. Powered by an award-winning PKI-as-a-service platform for certificate lifecycle automation and IoT device security, IT and InfoSec teams can easily manage digital certificates and keys. And product teams can build IoT devices with crypto-agility and at massive scale. Exceptional products and a white-glove customer experience for its 500+ global customers have earned Keyfactor a 98.5% retention rate and a 99% support satisfaction rate. Learn more at www.keyfactor.com.

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Scott Kelly to assume role of CEO. Company to relocate to Arizona.

Phoenix, AZ (USA) | September 29, 2020 -- Black Dog Venture Partners announced that it has acquired a 50% stake in Canadian based, OnPlate Technologies. OnPlate is a one-of-a-kind concierge, waiter, menu and payment processor, all wrapped into one easy-to-use app. Black Dog Founder, Scott Kelly will assume the role of CEO and the company plans to move its headquarters and begin its US launch in Arizona.

Scott Kelly commented on the acquisition “OnPlate’s founders, Frederic Sebag and Emmanuel Abikhzer have built great technology that allows customers to order quickly from their table, avoid wait times & enjoy better experiences, all with the ease of their smartphone. This completely contactless experience allows a safe and efficient means for restaurants to thrive during the pandemic and beyond. After a successful beta in Canada, we are excited to begin our US expansion in Phoenix”

"We are very excited to be working with Scott and the entire team at Black Dog Venture Partners. We truly believe our clients will benefit from this partnership as our models align beautifully with a focus on providing business owners with access, through the use of technology, to people and tools to help them improve in a variety of areas" added Emmanuel and Frederic, VP & Director of Operations, OnPlate.

Learn more and sign up today at OnPlate.App. Follow OnPlate at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Black Dog Venture Partners is a business accelerator that provides venture capital consulting, corporate finance, business development, digital marketing and publicity for regional and national brands and fast-growing companies. Black Dog’s portfolio includes holdings in gaming, esports, entertainment, cybersecurity, and technology. Learn more at http://BlackDogVenturePartners.com

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LONDON, United Kingdom - September 30, 2020 - ActiveCloud (part of Softline Group) has confirmed the compliance of its cloud infrastructure with the strict requirements of Russian legislation on protection of personal data for the 2nd level of security (UZ2), having successfully passed an independent audit and compliance assessment.

Digital transformation is forcing companies to collect more and more data about their customers. In order to serve their customers better than others and offer the goods and services that meet their expectations it is necessary to know literally everything about the client. Companies today are forced to collect and process transaction histories, social media profiles, state registry data, photos from surveillance cameras, mobile tags and many other information about consumers. The growing role of the online business component due to coronavirus restrictions is further accelerating the pace of data accumulation. The more voluminous and sensitive the information about the client is, the higher requirements for its protection are imposed by the law on protection of personal data.

Today no public company can afford to become the anti-hero of news portals without consequences due to the leak of personal data. It hits both the reputation and the pocket. Therefore, our customers are forced to make more and more efforts to protect information, and it is important for a cloud service provider to ensure a high level of cybersecurity of their infrastructure in order to meet today's customer needs.

"The third level of security most often found in Russian clouds today is obviously in many cases insufficient for reliable protection and compliance with the requirements of the law. By placing their business applications in the cloud customers find themselves in a certain dependence on the cyber competence of the supplier expecting a high level of protection of personal data by default. Therefore, it was decided in ActiveCloud to move to a more complex 2-nd level of security which allows you to securely store sensitive biometric information and data about the health of Russians in the cloud,” comments Dmitry Yashin, CEO of ActiveCloud in Russia.

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Softline is a leading global Information Technology solutions and services provider focused on emerging markets of Eastern Europe, Americas, and Asia. We help our customer achieve digital transformation and protect their business with cybersecurity technologies. Our services include end-to-end technology solutions, public and private clouds, software and hardware provisioning and broad array of associated services.

Softline’s 2019 turnover exceeded $1.54 Billion US dollars with sales growth 13.2% in the Group of Companies. Softline has offices in 50 countries and 95 cities worldwide. With more than 25 years of distinguished history we have managed to grow rapidly while consolidating technology expertise and a business model encompassing all emerging markets.

We serve over 60 000 Enterprise and SMB clients, both from private and public sectors. Over 1500 account managers, 1000 solution sales and technical presale professionals and 1000 engineers and technical specialists help our customers navigate through the ever-changing complex IT environment. We build long-term relationships with our clients, partners and employees.

Softline has partnerships with more than 3000 software and hardware manufacturers and has highest partner status with all our key partners. We provide a unique marketing and sales channel for our partners in all the markets where we operate. Softline is always customer centric and provides brand independent solutions which best serve customer’s needs.

For more information, please visit www.softline.com

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StayinFront RDI (StayinFront Retail Data Insight), a global provider of mobile, cloud-based field force, analytics and digital solutions for consumer goods organizations, announced today the official release of StayinFront RDI Predictive Analytics, a solution designed to strengthen the incremental sales impact of FMCG field teams across global markets through actionable insights where EPoS data is limited or isn’t available.

In modern trade markets with easy access to Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) or scan data, it is common practice for consumer goods organizations to allocate time , manpower and resources to the stores that are generating the greatest amount of sales. However, in channels such as the traditional trade and in many developed/emerging markets, this data is not readily available. StayinFront RDI Predictive Analytics uses a vast array of data sources to predict the likely sales value in any given outlet, even if EPoS data isn’t present. Intelligent algorithms and machine learning identify store characteristics and variables, building a store-level forecast that segments locations according to their estimated sales and helping field teams determine which ones to visit. It can also be used to recommend the next best SKU to range in-store based on the unique catchment area attributes the machine learning identifies.

“We are excited to announce the launch of StayinFront RDI Predictive Analytics, a new technology platform that harnesses the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence to deliver brand owners hard commercial benefits,” explained Andy Foweather, Commercial Director at StayinFront RDI. “While case studies in production environments of users of StayinFront RDI support revenue increases of 3% or greater, Predictive Analytics is designed to provide a significant revenue lift in markets where EPoS data is limited or not available. Predictive Analytics can help consumer goods organizations identify not only the stores that drive the greatest value, but also the ones with the most potential as well. We are dedicated to supporting sales reps in their quest to Do More, Know More and Sell More in the field.”

Acquired by StayinFront in 2017, StayinFront RDI’s software is tightly integrated within StayinFront’s market-leading TouchCG solution, an award-winning software recognized by industry experts and analysts, and most recently as one of the recipients of the Software Report’s "Top 25 CRM Software of 2020" award. Along with StayinFront RDI, TouchCG contains a full suite of retail execution capabilities, with integrated dashboards and KPIs that provide actionable insights for field teams and their managers.