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Emerging open cloud security framework has backing of Microsoft, Google and IBM

Category: Business News

Each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and security platforms, leaving it to the vendors to find proprietary ways to translate that into a format that works for their tool. The Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF), a new working group that includes Microsoft, Google and IBM is trying to create a new open and standard way of delivering this information.

Source: TechCrunch

Published: May 5, 2021

Norwegian Corporate Training Startup Attensi Raises $26M from NYC’s Lugard Road, DX Ventures

Category: Business News

Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital, DX Ventures (a VC fund backed by Delivery Hero) and existing shareholder Viking Venture. The new funding will be used to expand in North America and Europe. Attensi uses a gamified approach to corporate training, […]

Source: TechCrunch

Halliburton to Provide Petroleum Data Management Platform for Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

Category: Business News

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today announced it signed an eight-year contract with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to deploy and operate Diskos, the Norwegian national repository of seismic, well, and production data for the oil and gas industry. Halliburton Landmark will deliver Diskos 2.0 using DecisionSpace® 365 cloud services in iEnergy® – the industry’s first […]

Source: Business Wire

Norway’s Kahoot to Explore Secondary U.S. Listing: CEO

Category: Business News

Softbank-backed Kahoot is to explore a secondary listing in New York or another major European exchange as it looks to take advantage of soaring investor demand for growth and tech stocks, its chief executive told Reuters. The Norwegian e-learning company, which made a switch from Oslo’s junior bourse to its main stock exchange on Thursday, […]

Source: Reuters

Norway Consumer Group Calls for Grindr to be Made to Delete Any Illegal Data

Category: Business News

Norway’s influential Consumer Council called on Wednesday for the country’s data protection watchdog to order Grindr to identify and erase any personal data gathered illegally. Datatilsynet, Norway’s Data Protection Authority, said in January it planned to fine the LGBTQ+ dating app 100 million Norwegian crowns ($11.8 million) for allegedly illegally disclosing user data to advertising […]

Source: Reuters