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Security in Symworld: Stay put at your own risk says Rakuten Symphony's Paul Black

By Paul Black VP, Global Product Marketing Rakuten Symphony

June 1, 2022

Symworld is the beating heart of Rakuten Symphony, a platform developed to reimagine telecom and break the shackles of the traditional approach to Telecom Networks. A modern, industrial-scale automation platform explicitly built for telecom with the ability of seamless integration to create a cloud-native marketplace.

Security has been considered in every aspect of Symworld design and functionality. Nothing has been taken to chance, with every interface and component following an extensive review to ensure security is front and center in the platform. As a result, the Symworld platform is not only thoroughly tested, but is challenged every single day as it is already deployed and successfully working in a fully functional cloud-native, software-defined 5G network in Japan.

Following a rigorous procedure of Security by Design, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to security. Rakuten Symphony understood early on that no single reference architecture or standard can address every possible vulnerability or detect every potential threat. Instead, we strongly believe in a pragmatic, dynamic, and always-on cyber security framework to help identify, respond, and recover from vulnerabilities or compromises to systems.

We follow a comprehensive zero-trust approach to security and follow a step-by-step process to ensure every attack vector, threat and eventuality has been considered.

Design with Zero Trust, Secure Coding

Immutable container images, signed container images and signature verification

Continuous monitoring and remediation of vulnerabilities

Ensure strict access control for resources as well as resource limit configurations

Securing cloud platforms with hardening best practices

Runtime observability and security based on cloud-native best practice

Symworld has been built to maximize automation and minimize the need for human intervention.

Symworld Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

All base stations are commissioned and brought online without the need for human configuration, including the security of all node aspects, with the generation, securing and vaulting of all interfaces and involved services. Subsequent configuration changes are handled through the Symworld Automation Studio. At no stage does a human manually write and run a configuration script and at no stage does any operational staff have any direct access to any security credentials. This is just one example of how security has been embedded into the operational model of Symworld as a first-class citizen and at birth.

Rakuten Symphony's approach has been driven by our early adoption of the "new ways of building networks" and the lack of any reference implementation of a successful nationwide Open RAN, cloud-native network deployment. As a result, we had to leverage 21st-century technologies for our 21st-century networks to achieve our objectives with the utmost resilience and privacy with user and data integrity in mind.

In the area of security, standing still is a much riskier strategy than moving forward. Actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and you must constantly evolve, as failure to evolve will sadly end with drastic consequences. Therefore, security cannot be an afterthought and needs to be designed into the fabric of the operator's business processes and procedures.

https://symphony.rakuten.com/blog/security-in-symworld

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Accelerating your Cloud Native Strategy

June 6, 2022

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Rakuten Viber has launched new features in the channels and will counter hate speech

Taras Mishchenko 30.05.2022

https://mezha.media/en/2022/05/30/rakuten-viber-has-launched-new-features-in-the-channels-and-will-counter-hate-speech/

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Immobilienpreise 2022: So ist die Lage in Deutschland, Schweiz & USA

15.06.2022

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Rakuten Partners with Toon Cracker, Enters Vertically Scrolling Full-Color Digital Comics Business

- Partnership includes joint planning and production of original works, domestic and global distribution, and procurement and localization of overseas works

Tokyo, June 14, 2022 - Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with Toon Cracker Co., Ltd. and will enter the vertically scrolling full-color digital comics for smartphones business.

With this agreement, Rakuten and Toon Cracker aim to collaborate on the planning and production of original vertically scrolling full-color digital comics, domestic and worldwide distribution, and the procurement and localization of comics produced outside of Japan. The content produced will be available for integration into the many services within the Rakuten Ecosystem, a portfolio of more than 70 organically integrated Rakuten Group services with more than 100 million members in Japan alone. Plans are also in place to promote the development and merchandising of original comics and subsequent related works in a range of overseas and domestic media.

Vertically scrolling digital comics deliver impactful visuals designed to make full use of smartphone screens and offer a multitude of engaging production possibilities, including vivid, full color illustrations and dynamic sound effects. Unlike conventional comics designed to be printed on paper, which tend to use complex panel layouts for their illustrations, vertically scrolling digital comics are read from top to bottom, an intuitive format for smartphone users that is easily understood and embraced around the world.

Koji Ando, Rakuten Group Managing Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Rakuten’s Communications & Energy Company, commented, “We are extremely excited at the possibilities our new partnership with Toon Cracker opens up. The vertically scrolling digital comics marketplace is expected to grow rapidly, and we aim to generate world-class content together. We hope to harness the Rakuten Ecosystem to broaden the reach of the works we produce with a long-term view toward developing our own media franchises.”

Toon Cracker chief executive Shigeaki Kuwada commented, “I am greatly honored that Rakuten, with its incredible ecosystem and content, has selected us as its partner company on this project. The vertically scrolling digital comics market is constantly expanding and our content has the potential to reach not just Japan but the entire world. Through this partnership, I hope that we can generate fantastic content together and contribute to the development of the industry worldwide.”

Rakuten will continue working to deliver a wide variety of entertainment experiences originating from IP content, while providing services that empower and inspire users around the world.

About Toon Cracker
As a production, localization and consulting venture company, Toon Cracker harnesses its deep business experience and knowledge of digital entertainment to create new content including vertically scrolling full-color digital comics tailored for viewing on smartphone screens.

global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2022/0614_01.html

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How you can get started taking your affiliate programme worldwide

Rakuten Advertising and PerformanceIN at DealMaker 2022

Nick Fletcher, SVP EMEA at Rakuten Advertising spoke to us at Rakuten Advertising DealMaker Europe 2022. Tune in to hear his biggest and most important advice on how you can get started taking your affiliate programme worldwide...

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5G RAN STATE OF THE MARKET – WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING

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More points from Rakuten Mobile

https://www.orefolder.net/2022/06/rakuten-mobile-add3000/

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Rakuten is valued with only idiotic low 0.63-fold revenues

Revenues of the last 12 month was 1,727,371 million Yen (= $12.848 billion)

Income Statement All numbers in thousands

TTM

12/30/2021

12/30/2020

12/30/2019

12/30/2018

Total Revenue

1,727,371,000

1,681,757,000

1,455,538,000

1,263,932,000

1,101,480,000

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RKUNY/financials?p=RKUNY

Market.-Cap is only idiotic low $8.058 billion

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RKUNY?p=RKUNY

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Rakuten owning about 40% of Cabify

Progress in infrastructure and new Eco category for companies

On the one hand, Vecttor, a subsidiary of the Cabify Group, has its own infrastructure of superchargers that allows the daily operation of a hundred 100% electric vehicles, a much higher figure if we refer to other types of cars, such as plug-in hybrids. This step is part of an ambitious electrification project that will help provide the infrastructure necessary for thousands of zero-emission vehicles in the sector to have an efficient daily operation and achieve the objective of total decarbonisation of the fleet in Spain by 2025.

Cabify is also making progress in promoting the decarbonisation of its collaborating fleets, through agreements with electric vehicle companies that can offer more favourable conditions, or with agreements to facilitate the charging of this type of car.

In addition, Cabify has announced the launch of a new category, called 'Cabify Eco', which will be available to companies that use Cabify's service for the mobility of their employees. This category, which will start operating in the next weeks, will only offer travel in electrified vehicles (hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric), a common demand from companies with a strong commitment to environmental commitment. Cabify, for its part, will continue to offset the emissions of all trips made through the app, a commitment that has been maintained since 2018, making it the first mobility app in its category to be "Carbon Neutral" in Europe and Latin America.

In this regard, it is worth highlighting the recent approval by the European Investment Bank (EIB) of a 40 million euros loan to Cabify for its fleet decarbonisation project. This financing is aimed at the deployment of 1,400 electric vehicles over the next few years in Spain, as well as the infrastructure necessary for their operation. In the words of the EIB, this project has "a significant and positive social and environmental impact. It also has important environmental benefits in terms of positive externalities, including the reduction of CO2, NOx and particulate matter (PM) emissions.

https://www.traveldailynews.com/post/cabify-sets-2025-as-a-t…