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The AI-driven Vectra platform recognized for its leading detection capabilities that span across network, hybrid and multi-cloud attack surfaces.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced that the company has been named a winner in two categories of the prestigious 2022 SC Awards. The Vectra platform was recognized with the "Best Threat Detection Technology" and "Best Threat Intelligence Technology" in this year's awards. Vectra optimizes Security AI to understand attacker behaviors across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and networks, enabling security teams to detect, prioritize, investigate and respond to threats in real-time.

Now in its 25th year, the SC Awards are the cybersecurity industry's most prestigious and competitive honor, recognizing the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security.Vectra applies patented Security AI to surface and prioritize threats while integrating seamlessly into existing security stacks. Organizations that deploy Vectra gain the coverage, clarity and control required to get ahead and stay ahead of evasive attacks across today's threat landscape. The Vectra platform enables:

"Organizations that prioritize AI detection and response are giving themselves a leg up on today's attacks, especially when the right approach to AI is leveraged," said Kevin Kennedy, SVP Product Management, Vectra. "There are just too many unknowns that security teams are up againstfrom expanding attack surfaces, evasive and evolving attacker methods and overwhelming alert noiseVectra's approach to AI detection and response can neutralize those challenges and turn the tables on attackers. We're honored to be recognized by SC Media in these two categories as threat detection and threat intelligence remain at the core of everything we do."

The recognition comes two months after Vectra was recognized in the 2022 SC Media Awards Europe as the winner in the Best Behaviour Analytics / Enterprise Threat Detection category along with being listed as "highly commended" in three additional categories.

"The last year brought distinct challenges for the customer community, who are still struggling to manage the impact of the pandemic while transitioning to a new security standard," said Jill Aitoro, senior vice president of content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance and editor in chief of SC Media."Winners of our Trust Awards answered the call by delivering technology that could help manage the evolving threat landscape."

This year's SC Award winners will be celebrated at InfoSec World 2022, taking place between September 26-28. For more information about the SC Awards and for a full list of 2022 winners, please visit: https://www.scmagazine.com/sc-awards.

About CyberRisk AllianceCyberRisk Alliance (CRA) is a business intelligence company serving the high growth, rapidly evolving cybersecurity community with a diversified portfolio of services that inform, educate, build community, and inspire an efficient marketplace. Our trusted information leverages a unique network of journalists, analysts and influencers, policymakers, and practitioners. CRA's brands include SC Media, SecurityWeekly, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, InfoSec World, Identiverse, Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum, its research unit CRA Business Intelligence, and the peer-to-peer CISO membership network, Cybersecurity Collaborative. Click here to learn more.

About VectraVectra is a leader in cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises. The Vectra platform uses AI to detect threats at speed across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and data centers. Only Vectra optimizes AI to detect attacker methodsthe TTPs at the heart of all attacksrather than simplistically alerting on "different." The resulting high-fidelity threat signal and clear context enables cybersecurity teams to respond to threats sooner and to stop attacks in progress faster. Organizations worldwide rely on Vectra for cybersecurity resilience in the face of dangerous cyber threats and to prevent ransomware, supply chain compromise, identity takeovers, and other cyberattacks from impacting their businesses. For more information, visitvectra.ai.

Media ContactJohn KreuzerLumina Communications for Vectra [emailprotected]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday announced a 25% price increase for the company's premium driver assistance system, which is marketed under the name Full Self-Driving, or FSD. The price will increase to $15,000 from $12,000 on Sept. 5, Musk said in a tweet.

Today, Tesla charges customers $12,000 upfront for FSD, or $199 per month on a subscription basis.

Musk did not immediately mention an increase in the cost of FSD subscriptions and Tesla did not respond to a request for further information.

All new Tesla vehicles come with a standard driver assistance package called Autopilot, which includes features like "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control" and "Autosteer." These rely on cameras, other sensors, hardware and software to automatically keep a Tesla vehicle centered in its lane and traveling at the speed of surrounding traffic.

Tesla's highest-priced driver assistance option, FSD, includes what the company calls "Traffic and Stop Sign Control" and "Navigate on Autopilot" among its features.

These more advanced features are intended to let Tesla cars automatically detect and slow down for traffic signs and signals; navigate from highway on-ramp to off-ramp while engaging turn signals; make lane changes and take exits.

Tesla tells drivers to remain attentive and be prepared to take over their cars' steering and braking at any time while using Autopilot or FSD. Its technology does not make Tesla vehicles autonomous.

One Tesla feature called Smart Summon allows drivers to use a smartphone and Tesla mobile app like a remote control to call their car from across a parking lot and slowly drive, without anyone behind the wheel, to where they are standing.

While some FSD features are also included in a lower-priced option called Enhanced Autopilot, or EAP, only Tesla customers who buy or subscribe to the premium option can request access to FSD Beta, an experimental version of Tesla's system.

FSD Beta users are supposed to obtain a high "Safety Score" from Tesla to get and maintain access to the system.

Tesla's approach has drawn criticism and regulatory scrutiny from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the California Department of Motor Vehicles alike.

Still, the company is forging ahead and doing a limited release of the latest version of FSD Beta, to a relatively small pool of users, Musk also tweeted on Sunday.

Earlier, he wrote on Twitter, "There are many major code changes, so this will be an extra cautious rollout. Releasing on 8/20 to ~1000 Tesla owners, then 10.69.1 next week to accommodate feedback & release to ~10k customers, then 10.69.2 week after & release to rest of FSD Beta."

Owners who gain access to FSD Beta are able to send feedback to the company via their cars when the system fails or acts glitchy. Tesla previously said 100,000 drivers had already installed FSD Beta.

Tesla is planning to make FSD Beta even more mainstream.

At the Tesla 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting on August 4, Musk said that FSD Beta will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year. Here's a quote from Thomson Financial's transcript of the meeting:

"We're still tracking very much to have widespread deployment of FSD Beta this year in North America. So I should say basically, FSD will be available to anyone who requests it by the end of this year."

Among those who are receiving the limited-release update this weekend are widely followed social media influencers who sell Tesla merchandise and run ad-supported videos on YouTube channels where they review Tesla's latest releases and more.

Since 2016, the NHTSA has opened 38 probes into collisions that involved a Tesla vehicle where driver assistance systems including Autopilot and more advanced systems were thought to be a factor. Nineteen fatalities were reported as part of those Tesla-involved collisions under investigation.

Separately, California's DMV recently accused Tesla of deceptive marketing practices with regard to the features in its vehicles, and it is conducting a technical review of Tesla's systems including FSD Beta.

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's director of Autopilot software, said on Twitter this weekend that "Autopilot prevents ~40 crashes /day where human drivers mistakenly press the accelerator at 100% instead of the brakes." Tesla generally does not make data about its systems available to third-party researchers for confirmation of its claims.

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Half-brother of Meghan Markle has filed a request for authority over their father Thomas Markles legal and commercial matters while he recovers from a stroke.

The 78-year-old might be placed under conservatorship, a kind of legal guardianship that was notably used by family members to oversee singer Britney Spears for 13 years.

They are given to people who, for example, have dementia and are no longer able to make their own choices.

Thomas Sr. had a stroke in May and has struggled with his health for some time.

If approved, Tom Jr., 55, would be able to handle a legal battle with British photographer Jeff Rayner over staged pictures that caused Thomas Sr. global shame.

The Sunday Mirror quoted an anonymous source as saying: Tom Snr has had a succession of health scares and his son wants to do the best for him by removing any stress.

Cases in America go on for months or years, so Tom Snr. will feel lighter. He will be able to concentrate on getting well.

The father-daughter relationship deteriorated as a result of the photos, which were shot before Prince Harry and Meghans wedding.

The photos, according to Thomas Sr., were produced in an effort to assist him modify his public image.

The idea was that they would all be casual images, inconspicuous, and nobody would know they were posed or anything, he stated in a Channel 5 program.

It would simply be me going about my everyday business.

The photographer even obtained a restraining order against Thomas Sr. after reading that the former Hollywood lighting engineer had even said in a book that he would think about murdering Mr. Rayner.

Thomas Sr. allegedly said: I got screwed Rayner, according to author Tom Bower of the book Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between The Windsors. I want to destroy him. Ill murder him if they tell me I have terminal cancer because I have nothing to lose.

Thomas Sr. will appear in court in November to ask for $1 million in damages for the harm the faked photos caused. Thomas Sr. has denied suggesting he would murder Mr. Rayner.

Mr. Markles handwritten court file is so plainly frivolous that Mr. Markle and anybody else who republishes the specifics of Mr. Markles court petition will be liable to Coleman-Rayner for defamation, according to a statement from Mr. Rayners photography business.

Thomas Sr. missed the wedding because of a heart attack, and Meghan hasnt talked to her father since the faked photos.

Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, are the children of Meghan, although he has yet to meet them.

Tom Jr. has opted not to respond.

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Earlier this month the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced new COVID guidelines that brought the countrys COVID epidemic in for a soft landing, of sortsor tried to, anyway.

It dropped the guidance that Americans quarantine if theyve been in close contact with someone who has the virus, as well as the recommendation to social distance.

Those without symptoms, or who are fever-free and whose symptoms are improving, can end their isolation after five days, the agency adviseseven though research shows that many with COVID are still infectious at this point.

The rules belie the state of things. COVID levels in at least some parts of the U.S. were recently at or around highs seen during the Omicron surge late last year into early this year.

Were talking all-time highs.

With testing at record lows, the only reason we know is because some communities look for the virus in wastewater. What does it say that the best indicator of disease spread in this country is now the filthy water that fills sewers?

Some experts, like chief presidential medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, have said the acute phase of the COVID pandemic is over. Others say its too early to tell, and point out that a milder variant next month doesnt mean a more virulent one couldnt emerge the following.

In the absence of clear closure, or any closure, sometimes were guilty of creating our ownthe way we might mentally craft a satisfying end to a movie that ends abruptly.

As Traci Hong, a professor of media science at Boston University, recently told Fortune, Americans are looking for the other bookmark, basically. A typical TV series runs three to five seasons, with 26 weekly episodes, she said.

Thats roughly two and a half years of watching the same show, if you watch it every week, Hong said, adding that Americans are binged out when it comes to the pandemic.

Its well run the course of a typical series life span.

This isnt the first time weve buried our head in the sand when a health crisis wouldnt go away. Its one of many, Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York School of Public Health, told Fortune.

In September 1918, Sen. John Weeks of Massachusetts called on Congress to set aside a million dollars to fight the Spanish flu.

The measure passed both chambers unanimously.

Rupert Blue, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, hoped that the vote would serve as an important precedent for the future and the importance of protecting the health of Americans at all times. Congress appropriated no additional funds, however, for a strain of flu that lingers today, with genetic vestiges in the viral makeup of currently circulating strains.

Blue proposed a comprehensive national health programbut the call fell on deaf ears, as Americans sought to return to normalcy.

Sound familiar?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wouldnt be created for nearly another 30 years. Though it began with a mission of preventing malaria from becoming endemic in the U.S., many would say it has since lost its way, focusing myopically on rare diseases and operating in silos while failing to keep a pulse on broad public health crises.

The pattern were witnessing in our reactions to public health crises is one the Pandemic Action Network calls the panic-neglect cycle, according to Lee.

We all know people who have bad relationships, he said. During the relationship, they think, This is awful, this is not what I want. Once it ends, they dont do the introspection to change what theyre doing going forward. They just keep repeating.

So it goes with the pandemic, nearly three years in.

Were already forgetting key lessons weve learned early in the pandemic, Lee said, like the importance of face-masking. Face-masking is a population-based intervention that best works when everyone does it, he saidnot a tool meant to be used by a lone person to protect themselves in a sea of blissful ignorance.

The panic-neglect cycle has already launched twice as its COVID iteration continues, Lee said.

Monkeypox infiltrates the country as our supply of safe smallpox vaccine, used to treat monkeypox, runs shortand as health officials approve the splitting of each dose into five to stretch the supply. Meanwhile, vast quantities of an older smallpox vaccine sit in the Strategic National Stockpilebut it contains a live virus and is considered unsafe for many, and thus, is rarely used.

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there was a push for more funding for terrorism prevention, including bioterrorism prevention, Lee said. But interest waned with time. Had the U.S. stayed attentive and stockpiled the safer vaccine, perhaps the monkeypox outbreak could have been stopped in its tracks earlier this year, he said.

Even if you dont immediately have the exact same threat, preparation for one scenario can help in a different one in the future, Lee said. We really missed the ball on that one.

Same goes with polio, according to Lee. The World Health Organization declared the Americas free of the potentially paralyzing, possibly deadly virus in 1979. Eventually, the evils of polio faded into textbooks, and the urgency of some parents to vaccinate their children dissipated.

But polio has recently been detected in the wastewater of multiple New York counties, and has so far paralyzed one person. Each case of paralytic polio is only the tip of the iceberg and represents often hundreds of additional cases that dont present with symptoms or look a lot like the flu.

We have to remember that the problem hasnt gone away, its been handled, Lee said. You have to maintain that handling of the problem. How did we make our country polio-free in the first place? We got our vaccination levels up high enough. We need to maintain those levels.

The plane rests on the tarmacthe CDC in the pilots cabin, Americans breathing heavy sighs of relief into the oxygen bags suspended from the ceiling. Meanwhile, COVID surreptitiously circulates about the cabin, as it has for months and years now.

This fall the White House predicts a surge of COVID perhaps reaching 100 million infectionsa surge greater than any weve seen thus far. Without additional funding from Congress, America wont have the funding it needs to be first in line for updated vaccines, should they become available, the Biden administration warned this spring.

What happens if the prediction comes true, Lee wonders. When the CDC reverses course yet again and asks Americans to mask upnot even at the first sign of increased trouble, but after hospitals potentially fill and deaths rise?

How compliant are people going to be with face mask use? Vaccination requirements? he asked. Youve already set the stage for people not paying attention.

Editors note: This article was updated on Aug. 21 to reflect the number of infections projected by the White House this fall.

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Watch Chad Townsend - In Control from 7.30pm on Fox League

Cowboys halfback Chad Townsend has revealed how the club landed his signature, a signing that was questioned at the time but has proven a masterstroke.

Townsend won a premiership with the Sharks in 2016 and had an option in his favour to play for the club this season.

But the 31-year-old instead opted to leave his comfort zone in the Shire, where he grew up, and move his young family to a steaming hot Townsville last November.

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But Townsend admits he thought hed finish his career at Cronulla and the approach from North Queensland officials came out of the blue.

Yeah its a wild one to be honest, I had my contract status at the Sharks I had an option in my favour to stay at the club, Townsend said on Fox League.

You know I never really entertained the thought of leaving, you know and then all of a sudden Ive got a call from my manager to say the Cowboys want to have a chat to you and what do you think? I was like you know lets go and have a chat and see what they think.

I went to the meeting with my manager in the Shire in the corner of a cafe just to try and not be seen.

I remember going to that meeting with Todd (Payten), Michael Luck our GM of football, Dane, head of recruitment and they kind of pitched to me what they saw in myself and what they would like me to do if I chose to come up here.

It really appealed to me and I left that meeting, went home to my wife and I just said I can do exactly what they want me to do and you know within a week later I signed the contract and declined my option and thats how it played out.

It was such a big decision like I said my home, my family, my friends, my wifes family, my wifes friends theyre all in the Shire and the easy thing for us to do would have been to say no and take up my option in Cronulla I was comfortable, but we chose the hard way, we chose to move.

Townsend left the Sharks halfway through last season for the Warriors before injury cut his loan stint short.

The veteran playmaker said hes spent most of his career pushing himself to become better and the Cowboys move was just the latest chapter.

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Ive got three young children, Im expecting one more in a months time and the easy thing for us would have been to stay and we chose the hard way to relocate our young family and made the decision early in my career to move to New Zealand to challenge myself, to get out of my comfort zone.

I wasnt afraid to put my career first and challenge myself and this was just another example of that.

Townsend has proved the steady hand the Cowboys have needed this season, guiding the club to second on the ladder after 23 rounds.

I think from that first initial meeting, hearing Todd speak and his vision for the club and him speaking about the roster and the youth within that side and the fact that they wanted me to come in and help out with some leadership and experience, that really appealed to me, he said.

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I looked at the roster and I saw some really talented guys like a lot of them, early twenties and a lot of them are still at the very start of their career.

I knew that I could come in and help, I guess guide these guys into the right direction on the field and give them the chance to reach their potential.

Like I said I know who said what and again I understand how the media works and I understand that people they want to create headlines with wanting to pick people to come last but for me it motivated me.

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