Ensuring protection in data sharing: Privacy Enhancing Computation By Aditya Abeysinghe   Data privacy has become a much debated issue with a plethora of personal and business communication applications, websites and mobile apps available today. Who intercepts data, who has authority over data and what is done to these stored data without user consent has caused users to concern about their privacy when communicating over third party applications. While many applications today ensure encryption, masking and other techniques to hide the original form during transmission between two users many say that these techniques are easily decodable by eavesdropping middle parties during transmission. Therefore, research has focused on a new avenue to solve this issue by enforcing technologies that ensure privacy of data. These collections of technologies used for ensuring consumer privacy is called Privacy Enhancing Computation (PEC). How does PEC ensure privacy? Data used at present is mainly of two ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 11 July 2021 – 3rd Edition – Sri Lankans In Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “AGE, IS SIMPLY A NUMBER” – By Des Kelly Rotary Club of Colombo Port City – General Meeting on 7 July 2021 – Former High Commissioner to Australia, Somasundaram Skandakumar delivers the Keynote Address Tribute to my dear Uncle James Henry Lanerolle (James Mama)-by Savanthi de Silva New Order issued under Foreign Exchange Act to Preserve the Foreign Exchange Position of Sri Lanka His humaneness went hand in hand with his expertise as a surgeon – PROF C. BARR KUMARAKULASINGHE – by M. Karalasingham Warden’s Letter to Old Boys – July 2021 Ambassadors’ Forum presents Foreign Policy Perspectives by the Secretary of the Forum former Diplomat Jeff Goonewardena on behalf of the Forum COVID EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDING TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES Aakash ...

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Intelligent Process Discovery: Article 2 of a series of articles on Hyperautomation By Aditya Abeysinghe   In the last article I wrote about Robotic Process Automation (RPA – automating processes using robots or automated bots), its advantages and drawbacks of using RPA. However, users who use RPA should know which processes need to be automated and should separate processes which are more useful compared to others in business processes. This task is handled by intelligent process discovery where it “intelligently” discovers processes that could be automated. Why do we need software to discover processes? As such, one might ask if business processes are created, handled and maintained by humans, why is it necessary to use software to discover which processes need to be automated. One of the main reasons for using software is that the flow of tasks in a software is consistent. Software is also considered as not being ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 30 June 2021 – Sri Lankans In Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter “MAWKISH HUMOUR” Watch England v Sri Lanka ODI Cricket Highlights June 2021 Humanitarian Project – Distribution of essentials to the flood victims – In collaboration with AAKASH GREEN and THILANKA HOTELS AND RESORTS One of the best batches of the best school! – One of the best batches at RC -The 49 Group – By D.S.Sivapragasam, Canada Central Bank Governor’s Statement on Foreign Currency Liquidity in Domestic Market Obituary: Ranjitham (Ranji) Annama Ariathurai Uncertainty of life: Remembering three ‘Nangis-By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Campaign to send ICU Beds to Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan Community In Brisbane – update My PhD Journey – by Uma Panch A murder that shook the country; Burmese in Ceylon | Lost & Forgotten Watch T20 Cricket Highlights – England v ...

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Cyber security Mesh: Clusters of network monitoring redefining security By Aditya Abeysinghe   Conventional network security monitoring involves establishing a security perimeter around all devices of a network. This method has been followed since the kindergarten days of computer networks and is the de facto standard used to monitor and secure most internal networks at present too. While this may sound easy for monitoring and securing devices in a network, the main disadvantage is that if the perimeter is hacked in some way, then the entire network could be vulnerable to attacks. Furthermore, security policies are often imposed at the edge of the network rather than at identity or other access management levels. Cyber security mesh is a concept that addresses these issues by enforcing security at each access point or similar level, thereby clustering these networks into a mesh of networks that are monitored separately.   Covid-19 and network ...

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Is tracked data changing consumer behavior? By Aditya Abeysinghe   From smartwatches to smart homes Internet of Things (IoT) changed the way consumers use day to day appliances. However, IoT also sends collected sensor and other data to vendors and other parties. These data are then analyzed and are used for advertising, test product usages etc. Data analyzed are also used to explore knowledge and wisdom on how consumer activities could be adjusted. This part of analysis and then changing consumer behavior on data generated from IoTs is called Internet of Behavior. Behavior is not only about how consumers perceive about an IoT device but also about the emotions, decisions and the mutual bond they link to a device. For example, a smartwatch can measure the miles a customer walks and health related aspects such as sleep monitors, blood pressure monitors. These data can be then analyzed and recommendations could ...

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Is distributed cloud the next cloud model or rather a concept? By Aditya Abeysinghe   The Cloud in “Cloud Computing” refers to the abstraction of the location in which data storage and processing is performed. The customer rarely knows where their data are and what security measures are taken to protect their data. Due to this nature, many companies use on premise data centers or have hybrid clouds, i.e. a combination of public and private clouds to combine the benefits of both architectures. However, a new trend in cloud computing has emerged where the cloud service providers themselves distribute the cloud to known locations and provide services. This trend is called distributed clouds and is now widely being used by many customers as a new method of hosting their data. With distributed cloud the data can be processed closer to the customer in separate smaller clouds, compared to a large ...

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The rise of cloud robotics: How the cloud is transforming robotic landscape By Aditya Abeysinghe   Robots come in different forms based on the place, purpose and the level of automation they are used. They have been used both for legitimate and fraudulent activities, for both commercial and government purposes, as hardware and software and as a replacement for humans. However, with new models such as computer vision, computational thinking and processing of large data, i.e. big data, have been coupled with robotic functions, a new question has arisen: How can a robot process all these data and carry out its tasks without losing its “focus”? Several solutions have been proposed for this question and a feasible approach for robots of many forms is to use cloud services for heavy computations. Hence, within the past few years “cloud robotics” or use of cloud resources for robotics has been a new ...

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Intelligent Composable Businesses: How COVID-19 is reshaping businesses By Aditya Abeysinghe   Many businesses are facing closures of their operations or are struggling to keep the pace of their trends in processes with the Covid-19 pandemic. Businesses that have been bounded by limits have hard times to adapt to the new way of doing things with the pandemic. Many businesses also cannot adapt to newer technologies due to the type of goods or services they offer. Therefore, an interesting question is highlighted. How to link the uncertainty with the models, businesses have been following? Or in simple words: How can businesses adapt their way of selling goods/ services to an uncertain future? The key word here is “adapt”. If a business is adaptable or transient and resilient with the change then its chances of progressing amidst the pandemic are high. Hence, to survive a business should be “composable” and “adaptable” ...

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The rise of Personal Delivery Devices: Will a robot deliver my items? By Aditya Abeysinghe   Ever since 1920s, drones have gained popularity for their lightweight, remote controllable freight delivery nature. They have been used for military activities, logistics, agriculture and for recreational activities too. Drones are aerial, terrestrial or aquatic in nature, although, aerial and terrestrial drones are mostly used today. Aerial drones are used mostly for lightweight, fast transport and terrestrial drones are used mostly for heavyweight transport. Of these two types, a new class of drones have emerged in the past few years for transport of goods or rather packages, between sellers and clients requesting items from them. They are collectively called Personal Delivery Devices (PDD) s and are classified in metropolitan areas as a class of pedestrians. Companies such as Google and Amazon have developed aerial drones for package delivery and high priority supply delivery. Hence, ...

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