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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world, influencing everything from healthcare to manufacturing. As technology continues to evolve, the need for sustainable practices becomes paramount. At Navegalo, a leading provider of Data Center, Cloud, Connectivity, and VoIP services powered by 100% renewable energy in Central and South America and Miami, we believe that responsible technology is the key to a sustainable future.

AI: A Powerful Tool for Sustainability

AI offers a wealth of potential to revolutionize how we approach environmental challenges. Here are some key ways AI is promoting sustainability:

• Energy Efficiency: Beyond Data Centers: AI can optimize energy consumption in data centers and other facilities. By analyzing historical usage patterns and predicting future demand, AI can automate adjustments to cooling systems, lighting, and server power to minimize energy waste. This extends beyond data centers – AI-powered smart building systems can optimize energy use in office buildings, factories, and even homes, leading to a significant reduction in our overall carbon footprint.
• Resource Management: From Fields to Cities: AI applications can assist in managing natural resources more effectively. In agriculture, AI can analyze weather patterns, soil conditions, and satellite imagery to optimize irrigation and fertilizer use, reducing water waste and promoting sustainable farming practices. Similarly, AI-powered waste management systems can optimize collection routes, improve recycling efficiency, and even predict waste generation patterns to help cities develop more sustainable waste management strategies.
• Predictive Maintenance: Preventing Problems Before They Start: AI can analyze sensor data from equipment to predict potential failures before they occur. This proactive approach to maintenance helps prevent breakdowns, minimizes the need for replacement parts, and reduces overall resource consumption. In manufacturing facilities, for example, AI can predict equipment malfunctions, allowing for preventative maintenance and avoiding production line stoppages that require additional resources and energy to restart.

Leading the Way in Sustainable AI: Navegalo’s Initiatives

Navegalo is at the forefront of integrating AI into our sustainability initiatives. Here are a few examples:

• AI-powered Data Center Cooling: We have implemented an AI-driven system that analyzes real-time temperature data and automatically adjusts cooling infrastructure. This system has significantly reduced our data center energy consumption without compromising equipment performance.
• Optimizing Cloud Resource Allocation: We utilize AI to analyze cloud resource usage patterns and automatically allocate resources based on real-time needs. This not only reduces energy consumption but also helps our clients optimize their cloud spending.
• Sustainable Connectivity Solutions: Navegalo is exploring the use of AI to optimize network routing and data transmission, potentially reducing energy consumption in telecommunications infrastructure.

Challenges and Considerations: Responsible AI for a Sustainable Future

While AI holds immense potential for sustainability, challenges need to be addressed to ensure responsible implementation:

• Ethical AI: The development and deployment of AI must be guided by ethical principles. Algorithmic biases and potential environmental consequences of large-scale AI implementation require careful consideration. We need to ensure that AI solutions are developed and used in a way that benefits all of society and the environment.
• Data Privacy: AI relies heavily on data. Ensuring responsible data collection, storage, and usage practices is crucial to address privacy concerns. Transparency and user control over data are essential for building trust in AI-powered solutions.
• Economic Impact: The cost of adopting AI technologies can be a barrier for some companies. Developing affordable and accessible AI solutions for sustainability initiatives is essential to ensure widespread adoption and maximize the positive environmental impact.

The Future is Sustainable with AI: Innovations on the Horizon

Emerging AI technologies promise even greater advances in sustainability:

• AI-powered Environmental Monitoring: AI can analyze satellite imagery and sensor data to track deforestation, pollution levels, and other environmental indicators in real-time. This enables more informed environmental decision-making, allowing for targeted interventions and resource allocation to address pressing environmental challenges.
• Renewable Energy Optimization: AI can enhance the efficiency of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power by optimizing energy storage and grid integration. AI can predict weather patterns and energy demand, allowing for more efficient storage and distribution of renewable energy, making them a more reliable and competitive energy source.

Navegalo’s Commitment to Sustainable AI

At Navegalo, we are committed to continuous innovation and exploration of new ways to integrate AI into our sustainability practices. We believe responsible technology is the cornerstone of a sustainable future, and we are dedicated to providing our clients with solutions that are both powerful and environmentally responsible. Here are some ways we are actively working towards this goal:

• Transparency and Education: We believe transparency is key to building trust in AI. We are committed to educating our clients and the public about the role of AI in sustainability initiatives and the measures we take to ensure responsible development and implementation.
• Sustainable AI as a Service: Navegalo is exploring the possibility of offering “Sustainable AI as a Service” solutions. This would allow companies of all sizes to access and leverage the power of AI for their sustainability goals without the need for significant upfront investment.

Join Us in Building a Sustainable Future

By working together, we can leverage the power of AI to create a more sustainable future for generations to come. If you’re looking to explore AI-powered solutions for your sustainability goals, Navegalo is your ideal partner. 

Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can help your business achieve a greener future. Let’s harness the power of technology for a positive impact on our planet.

Facebook was born in 2003 as ‘Face match’, an application to flirt. Who would imagine that the platform would be used to influence elections worldwide? Google was created with the mission of “organizing the information of the world and making it accessible and useful”, but its director, Eric Schmidt, has recognized the complex evolution of his search engine: “One of the things I did not understand in the beginning was that these systems can manipulate public opinion in ways that do not match what we think of democracy. ” This duality in the use of technology is also observed in the ways in which world leaders govern their territories.

China has a surveillance network of more than two hundred million cameras, and the Government has promoted technological advances whose applications have been questioned by human rights activists. It has established a social credit system that evaluates the behavior of each citizen according to the parameters of the Government, and some cities have giant screens that publish lists of delinquents.

These types of surveillance measures to control the population do not remain in Chinese territory, but the Government of Chinese President Xi Jinping is exporting them as a model of success.

The success of Jinping China has seduced many leaders worldwide with a model that academic Shoshana Zuboff has described as an “incubator for terror capitalism.” An investigation by Freedom House revealed that China has sold technology to 18 countries and 36 have participated in training seminars on topics such as “guiding public opinion.” US Senator Marco Rubio has accused the country of being “in the business of exporting its authoritarianism.”

Venezuela has joined the list. The telecommunications company ZTE has helped the government of Nicolás Maduro create the “card of the motherland”. It is not a simple identity document. The Maduro government has invested about 70 million dollars to offer subsidies through it, but its membership is not free. Citizens provide a large amount of data such as family information, income, political membership and activity in the social networks used by the Government.

In Ecuador there are more than 4,000 cameras that nurture police monitoring centers. A New York Times article revealed that Ecuadorian police spend their days reviewing the recordings within 16 centers that employ more than three thousand people throughout the country. The technology is Chinese and was installed in 2011. The American newspaper revealed that the recordings have also ended in the dreaded National Intelligence Agency that under the mandate of former President Rafael Correa accumulated a long history of monitoring, intimidation and attack on political opponents.

Another buyer is Zimbabwe. The African state acquired from the arte start up ’Cloud Walk a series of artifacts to build a facial recognition system and strengthen its security. Although the Cloud Walk company is a private company, numerous media outlets in the region confirm that it has received millions of grants from the Jinping Executive.

Chinese surveillance and security company Yitu Technology sold portable cameras with facial recognition technology to Malaysia to strengthen security in public spaces, according to local authorities. The company’s technology can identify a person in its database of 1.8 billion people in three seconds with 95% accuracy.

And Chinese rulers have access to the different databases generated by their companies both in their territory and abroad.

Another of China’s most controversial customers is North Korea. Huawei and the state-owned company Panda International Information Technology built a telephone network in the country, according to a Washington Post investigation. This investment has been criticized for going against the sanctions that have been imposed on the peninsula to force its denuclearization.

These models have not originated from day to morning. In 2010 a delegation of countries, including Syria and Russia, went to the United Nations with a request: to establish sovereign borders in the digital world. The request did not prosper, but Russia has led attempts to achieve it. The Kremlin has tried to design an independent Internet project, and the Russian Government has carried out temporary disconnections to see if in case of foreign aggression Russia could be unplugged from the global network.

These practices contradict the optimism with which many saw technology. Foreign Affairs analysts detected that these uses of technological tools represent a setback in the liberalization of authoritarian countries because it allows them to make changes in people’s quality of life and maintain their control at the same time. Scholars point to that matching

An underwater or Interoceanic cable is that copper or fiber optic cable installed on the seabed and primarily intended for telecommunication services.

However, there are also submarine cables for the transport of electrical energy, although in this case the covered distances are usually relatively small and they are also inserted into a special pipe to avoid risks from contact with water since it handles high powers.

Currently, fiber optic submarine cables are the basis of the global telecommunications network. 1 2 The submarine cable is shown as a robust and effective solution, due to weather resistance, lower latency, and greater bandwidth than satellite communication, all of which positions it as a more reliable and higher capacity infrastructure, Once installed and tested.

Satellite communication has been relegated since the 1990s to the transmission of specific sporting and / or cultural events, the communication of extremely remote sites, and maritime / aeronautical navigation. It takes advantage of the flexibility of being able to “get on the satellite” instantly where the “footprint” of the satellite allows, and even move without losing connectivity, something that the cable cannot give.

The cables are currently not very thick, they can reach the size of a human arm. Paradoxically, the greater the depth, the less mechanical protection is needed, as there is a lower probability of damage to the cable by anchors, trawls, or others. They usually have the optical fibers in the center, plastic coatings, steel cables for mechanical resistance, copper conductors for repeater feeding, and an outer sheath of polyethylene terephthalate to completely isolate it.

And you will be wondering about the capacity of data transmission. Well, hold on to your chair. Neither more nor less than 3,840 giga-bits per second, that is 102 DVD discs in those seconds, this is possible by the optical fiber. A cable consists of 16 fiber threads, therefore 1,700 DVD discs are filled per second, above 60 terabits per second.

Repairing a cable at such depth is impossible, so it is fixed on the surface. Damaged ends are rescued with an underwater robot, and damage is repaired, attached or fixed on board special ships. There are not many ships dedicated to this work

There are several reasons why the cables are damaged, but basically it is because of ship anchors, fishing nets, or fish. The marine fauna can eat the coating of the cables – sharks -, attracted by the magnetic fields. Fortunately, the new cable designs contemplate this problem and reduce the possibility of cuts or complications from these causes.

Other cases that are contemplated are earthquakes. In 2006, one with magnitude 7.0 broke eight wires in the Taiwan area, seriously affecting communications in China. A total of eleven ships spent 49 days working on the repair.

Currently, movement recognition systems are being incorporated in the ocean floor for possible earthquakes, which may lead to something more complicated. It is known that they originate there, so we can count on the speed with which the cable can warn of what is happening, this gives us a very large room for maneuver to prevent situations in cities.

At present, the cables are not protected by the countries and every year there are between 100 and 150 cuts of submarine cables.

This technological marvel allows us to achieve the interconnection we enjoy today.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber, made by drawing or extruding glass (silica) or plastic in a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Optical fibers are more commonly used as a means to transmit light between two points of a fiber and have a wide use in fiber optic communications, where they allow transmission at greater distances and bandwidth (data rate) than the electric wires. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because the signals travel through them with less loss; In addition, the fibers are immune to electromagnetic interference, a problem from which metal cables suffer widely. Fibers are also used for lighting and imagery, and are usually wrapped in packages to introduce or remove light from tight spaces, such as a fibroscope. Some specially designed fibers are also used for a wide variety of diverse applications, some of which are fiber optic sensors and fiber lasers.

Typically, optical fibers have a core surrounded by a transparent coating material with a lower refractive index. The light is maintained in the nucleus due to the phenomenon of total internal reflection that causes the fiber to act as a waveguide. Fibers that allow many propagation paths or transverse modes are called multimode fibers (MM), while those that allow only one mode are called single mode fibers (SM). Multimode fibers generally have a larger core diameter6 and are used for short distance communication links and for applications where high power transmission is required. Single mode fibers are used for communication links larger than 1000 meters.

Being able to join optical fibers with low loss is important in fiber optic communication. This is more complex than joining electrical cable and involves careful adhesion of the fibers, precise alignment of the fiber cores and the coupling of these aligned cores. For applications that need a permanent connection, fusion splices are made. In this technique, an electric arc is used to melt the ends and thus join them together. Another common technique is mechanical splicing, where the end of the fibers is kept in contact by means of a mechanical force. Temporary or semi-permanent connections are made through a specialized fiber optic connector.

The field of applied science and engineering responsible for the design and application of optical fibers is called fiber optics. The term was coined by the Hindu physicist Narinder Singh Kapany, who is widely recognized as the father of fiber optics.

The optical fiber is used as a means of transmission in telecommunications networks because of its flexibility the optical conductors can be grouped together forming cables. The fibers used in this field are plastic or glass and sometimes of both types. Because of the low attenuation they have, glass fibers are used in interurban environments.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

We all hear about Facebook’s algorithm, Google’s algorithm … but … what is an algorithm?

In mathematics, logic, computer science and related disciplines, an algorithm (from Latin, dixit algorithmus and east from Greek arithmos, which means “number”, perhaps also influenced by the name of the Persian mathematician Al-Juarismi) is a set of defined and non-ambiguous, orderly and finite instructions or rules that typically allow solving a problem, computing, processing data and carrying out other tasks or activities. Given an initial state and an entry, following the successive steps a final state is reached and a solution is obtained. Algorithms are the object of study of the algorithm.1

We could call the algorithm a road map, based on logical, mathematical or computational reasoning, to obtain the concretion of a basic or complex question or objective, using the tools mentioned above. This added to the development of a flowchart, will take the user to a decision path according to the variables that are added, will arrive at the structure to assemble the pseudocode in high level language and finally be able to generate a program to execute it in a PC or a mathematical formula to obtain a result, as well as a hyper complex algorithm that will require the best and fastest computers in order to execute and obtain results. Ex. Big Data analysis on 10-year trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence.

In everyday life, algorithms are often used to solve problems. Some examples are user manuals, which show algorithms for using a device, or the instructions a worker receives from his employer. Some examples in mathematics are the multiplication algorithm, to calculate the product, the division algorithm to calculate the ratio of two numbers, the Euclidean algorithm to obtain the greatest common divisor of two positive integers, or the Gauss method to solve a system of linear equations.

In terms of programming, an algorithm is a sequence of logical steps that allow solving a problem. Copyright gives the owner the exclusive right to use the work, with some exceptions. When someone creates an original work fixed in a tangible medium, they automatically become the copyright owner of that work.

The Facebook algorithm is a tool used to know what will appear in the first places of the news feed of this social network.

To do this, Facebook takes into account factors such as the behavior and interests of users on the network, and this usually translates into the time spent in a particular post, what are their reactions (likes, comments, shares, etc.) and how is the interaction with other users or friends.

This is done since, after several studies, it has been estimated that any average user has daily access of more than 1500 posts but this person only pays attention to 20%.

The Google Algorithm is the form that the search engine has to position the pages before a search, that is, it is what decides whether you go first, second or on the second page. This algorithm changes about 500 times a year and it is difficult to keep track of it.

Not surprisingly, the algorithms of this search engine are considered as the hearts of the Internet as we know it today.

SOURCE: Google, Wikipedia, Quora

The action is not sophisticated: the financial officer of a company receives an email in which its executive director or CEO asks him to transfer a sum of money to a business partner.

There is nothing strange in the message. Nothing blows the alarms. He is your boss giving you an order. And as this enters the work plan of the person who deals with finances, there would be nothing to verify.

However, hours or days later, when the other party in the business claims that the transfer has not arrived, in the office they realize that there was an error, and that the situation is serious.

The money has been sent to a plot of bank accounts that diversify even outside the country, so it is very difficult to warn banks to stop the operation. Sometimes a part of the funds is recovered, but at other times the cybercriminals have already vanished with what is not theirs after having imitated the CEO’s mail and cheated on an employee.

This is known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), which in Spanish we know as Corporate Email Committed, one of the modalities of cyberattack to the cash counter of companies.

A worldwide scam with many zeros
According to figures provided by the FBI, this hacking has generated worldwide losses of at least $ 26 billion since 2016. And all through a relatively unsophisticated attack, according to a BBC report, which depends more on social engineering and deception. than traditional hacking.

The conclusion provided by cybersecurity experts is that emails cannot be trusted, when it comes to sensitive issues, linked to finance, no matter how powerful a company is.

According to the note, at the beginning of September 281 alleged hackers were arrested in 10 different countries as part of a massive operation against global cybercriminal networks linked to these types of scams.

“Committed corporate email is the most expensive problem in all cybersecurity,” says Ryan Kalember, executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint, a cybersecurity company based in California. There is no other form of cyber crime with the same degree of scope in terms of monetary losses. ”

For Kalember, during the last year the tactics have evolved in different ways. First, hackers focused on the highest-level executive characters of large companies, whether they are executive presidents or chief financial officers, who do not have much time to carry out verifications prior to a transfer order.

But also the focus has been directed to cadres of lower hierarchy.

Smaller hackers, but equally pernicious, manage to imitate the email of a common employee, and from there they ask the company to allocate their monthly salary to a new bank account, that is, the one that belongs to criminals.

The way of acting
Another peculiarity is that, according to Proofpoint, more than 30% of BEC-style emails arrive on Mondays, when hackers try to capitalize on the pending jobs of the weekend.

“The attackers know how people and offices work,” Kalember says. They depend on people making mistakes and have a lot of experience with what works. It is not a technical vulnerability, it is a human error ”.

Attackers also usually put a “Re:” or an “Fwd:” at the beginning of the subject of their emails, so that it seems part of a previous conversation and thus give credibility to your message.

Fraudulent attempts using this technique, according to the researchers, have increased by more than 50% year-over-year.

“One of the reasons why this problem is particularly difficult to eradicate is that it depends on the systematic risk that all of us trust emails as a means of communication,” says Kalemeber.

According to Pindrop Security, an information security company based in Atlanta, Georgia, companies in the United States lost more than $ 246 million in 2015 due to CEO fraud, overcoming losses generated by other attacks such as phishing, vishing, ransomware and credit card fraud.

That year, the FBI would have received more than 7,800 complaints about BEC scams.

Credit card fraud losses totaled about $ 41 million, while corporate data breach losses exceeded $ 39 million.

SOURCE: https://es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com

Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or information technology security, is the area related to computer science and telematics that focuses on the protection of computer infrastructure and everything related to it and, especially, the information contained in a computer or circulating through computer networks. For this there are a series of standards, protocols, methods, rules, tools and laws designed to minimize possible risks to infrastructure or information. Cybersecurity includes software (databases, metadata, files), hardware, computer networks and everything that the organization values ​​and represents a risk if this confidential information reaches the hands of other people, becoming, for example, inside information.

The definition of information security should not be confused with that of “computer security”, since the latter is only responsible for security in the computer medium, but the information can be found in different media or forms, and not only in media computer.

Computer security also refers to the practice of defending computers and servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks and data from malicious attacks.

In summary, security in a network environment is the ability to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities. A general definition of security must also pay attention to the need to safeguard the organizational advantage, including information and physical equipment, such as the computers themselves. No one in charge of security should determine who and when they can take appropriate action on a specific item. When it comes to the safety of a company, what is appropriate varies from organization to organization. Regardless, any company with a network must have a security policy that addresses convenience and coordination.

SOURCE: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security