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US-based cyber security company Menlo Security announced its expansion in India market by launching a regional Centre of Excellence (CoE) based in Bangalore. The company also plans to hire engineers in the country without revealing any specific number and said that it will roll out cutting-edge cyber security products for its global market from this hub.

The company founded in 2013 by three cyber security veterans Amir Ben-Efraim, Gautam Altekar and Poornima DeBolle, said that with close to 10% of its global staff based in Bangalore, the CoE serves as an R&D facility for new technologies, and as a support hub for customers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and around the globe. It also has a number of clients in the region across industries such as banking, airlines, and technology, the company said without mentioning any name.

The company said that it is growing at approximately 20% year-on-year in the region. Menlo is at a very exciting stage of its growth, and India is an important part of our growth story, Poornima DeBolle, Menlo Securitys Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, who is in India to officially open the Centre of Excellence, said.

She added that the company is making significant investments in this market with a multi-functional product team of R&D, security research, cybersecurity training, and global customer support and professional services.

DeBolle also said that in addition to tapping into the incredible talent in India for product development, the company is excited about bringing its market-leading Isolation Platform to this market to help with cybersecurity challenges created by increased Internet penetration.

We see an increase in Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT) targeting Indian companies and governments. We look forward to partnering with leading cybersecurity channels in India to deliver protection against web and email threats, she said.

Explaining the term in a whitepaper published by Menlo Security last month, the company said, HEAT attacks are a class of cyber threats targeting web browsers as the attack vector and are used to deliver malware or to compromise credentials, that in many cases lead to ransomware attacks.

DeBolle further informed, Our aim is to develop products in India. The growth of internet penetration in the country has created its own challenges as it means more people working in the web browser and a new breed of attackers and threats. For us, it is an opportunity to recruit and work with the very best talent and bring to market best-of-breed products.

Notably, one of its products, Menlo Private Access (MPA), launched in 2022, was the first product to be developed in India. It offers a zero-trust approach with fast, seamless access to internal applications without relying on legacy virtual private network (VPN) services.

The company has claimed that the new solution helps secure web applications from untrusted users and endpoints without impacting employee productivity, and also isolates threats before they reach the end user.

The Indian cyber security market is growing rapidly in India and spending on security in the country by businesses and governments is forecast to total $2.65 billion in 2023, an increase of 8.3% from 2022, according to a report published in February by market research firm Gartner.

The increase in adoption of digitalisation, cloud applications and the rise in remote workers exposes Indian organisations to greater security risks, said Rustam Malik, Senior Principal Analyst at Gartner. He added that in addition, growing concerns on the rising number of ransomware attacks coupled with stringent government measures on digital data protection and security breach reporting are pressing companies to increase their security spending in the next one year.

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Far-right broadcaster Pete Santilli called on members of the military to execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested.

Trump in a lengthy rant on Truth Social over the weekend claimed he would be arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Santilli responded on his show by calling for Trump's supporters in the military to rise up and round up Obama and his former administration officials and shoot them against a "concrete wall."

"Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people. You military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people," Santilli said in a clip flagged by Right Wing Watch.

"And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Susan Rice," he continued. "This entire criminal cabal that came about as a result of the murder of John F. Kennedy, the people that perpetrated the murder of John F. Kennedy, rise up to that."

"Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall...and do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world," he pleaded.

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AUSTIN, Texas The LBJ Foundation will honor Texas native Willie Nelson with a prestigious award this May.

According to the foundation, Nelson will receive the "LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award." All proceeds during a gala tribute on May 12 will go towards the "Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities" at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs.

The foundation stated that Nelson is a "lifelong advocate for farmers, alleviating food insecurity and support for rural communities" and that he embodies President Lyndon B. Johnson's commitment to public service, "particularly in the areas of farming and food security."

Willie Nelson is a national treasure who gained fame through his sheer musical talent and won hearts as someone who truly cares about the lives of his fellow Americans. A product of rural Texas, Willie has never forgotten where he comes from," said Larry Temple, chairman of the LBJ Foundation's Board of Trustees. "His longtime efforts to raise money and awareness for family farmers through Farm Aid and numerous other endeavors to help those in need throughout his career make him a true inspiration."

This Willie Nelson Endowment will help fund research and fellowships that focus on sustainable agriculture, eliminating hunger, resilient energy, sustainable water and natural disaster recovery for rural and farm communities.

Nelson will join former recipients of the LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award, including President George H. W. Bush, President Jimmy Carter, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and many others.

The award will be presented at the gala tribute dinner at the LBJ Presidential Library on May 12.

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(Bloomberg) -- As Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears poised to indict former President Donald Trump, some of the prosecutors most prominent New York critics have gathered under one roof.

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Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who is the wife of Saba Capital co-founder Boaz Weinstein, poured more than $8 million into her 2021 bid to become district attorney but lost to Bragg after a hard-fought Democratic primary race. Since her defeat, shes taught law, entered private practice and positioned herself as a legal affairs commentator.

In January, she added to her resume board chair of Free and Fair Litigation Group. But thats not just any legal nonprofit the group was founded by Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, the two prosecutors who once led the Trump investigation for the DAs office but quit last year over Braggs supposed reluctance to indict the former president. Pomerantz put out a book last month harshly critical of the DA.

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The team-up has raised some eyebrows in the New York legal scene.

She ran for DA once before, and Pomerantzs criticism of Bragg is well-documented, said Daniel Horwitz, a former prosecutor in the office. It does raise a question about whether there are multiple agendas at work here.

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a feather flock together, observed public defender Eliza Orlins, who ran against both Bragg and Farhadian Weinstein in the DA race.

Farhadian Weinstein, Pomerantz and Dunne didnt respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Bragg declined to comment.

Free and Fair was announced as a nonprofit law firm designed to counter the new authoritarian threat to our democracy and individual rights, citing gun safety, voting rights and book bans among its core issues. But Dunne and Pomerantz also touted their democracy-defending credentials in the announcement by noting that they resigned their government posts when their grand jury presentation was shut down, a clear dig at Bragg.

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In his February book People v. Donald Trump, Pomerantz claims Bragg balked at an ambitious criminal fraud case he and Dunne had been building against Trump, possibly because the DA was afraid to risk losing at trial.

Pomerantz also wrote that a zombie prosecution of Trump over his alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels would be a very peculiar and unsatisfying end to the investigation because the charge might end up being only a misdemeanor.

Wall Streets Pick

Bragg, who called Pomerantzs criticisms appalling, began ramping up the investigation again earlier this year and now appears close to charging Trump over the hush-money payment.

During the DA primary, Farhadian Weinstein, a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, positioned herself somewhat to the right of Bragg, though both ran as ex-federal prosecutors who would balance social-justice concerns while still being tough on crime. Bragg more heavily emphasized decriminalizing certain offenses though, an approach Farhadian Weinstein attacked during the campaign.

She was undeniably Wall Streets pick for the office. David Einhorn, Bill Ackman and Jason Mudrick were among the donors who funded a primary campaign that raised more than all her opponents combined and even more than any mayoral candidate, according to public records. Farhadian Weinstein was also endorsed by a number of leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric Holder.

Some think she still has her eyes on the prize.

Orlins, who ran for DA on explicitly defunding the prosecutors office, says its a given that Farhadian Weinsteins team-up with Pomerantz and Dunne is aimed at setting up a challenge to Bragg in a future Democratic primary, the only race that matters in deep-blue Manhattan.

Civil rights lawyer Janos Marton, another progressive DA candidate who fell out of the race early due to lack of funds, shares that view. Its always been clear to me that Tali is preparing to run again for this position, he said.

--With assistance from Greg Farrell.

(Updates with additional background.)

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In his nightly monologue this past Monday, Tucker Carlson gave his assessment of what caused the meltdown at Silicon Valley Bank. He began by noting that, after the 2008 financial crash, the Obama Administrations Department of Justice, led by Eric Holder, instituted D.E.I.diversity, equity, and inclusionstandards for the financial sector. According to Carlson, this meant that women and minorities, who, in his estimation, were clearly incompetent, now worked in pivotal positions in the banking industry. Ideologues used the 2008 bank bailout to kill American meritocracy, Carlson concluded. Andy Kessler, an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal, published a similar take in that days paper, speculating that the banks leadership may have faltered because it was distracted by diversity demands.

In Carlsons and Kesslers imagining, meritocracy has always been the foundation of American prosperity, and normal peopleread: none of the people who would benefit from diversity-hiring initiatives at a bankare being guilted or even strong-armed into giving up the fruits of their labor. Women, immigrants, the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, and Black Americans, in this story, are trying to create a rigged system in which people receive jobs, plaudits, and wealth for having marginalized identities.

Carlsons and Kesslers anti-woke interpretations of the bank collapse provoked a predictable outrage cycle online. The usual progressive counter-argument is to point out that the conservative vision is ahistoricalthat the U.S. has never been a meritocracy, and that race- and gender-conscious remediations are the only way to address the countrys legacies of slavery, disenfranchisement, and exclusion. But Ive always been a bit unsettled, or at the very least dissatisfied, by this response, even if I agree with its basic tenets. Its true that the U.S. isnt a country where every person starts at the same spot, and makes their way by some combination of talent and grit. Still, I worry that progressives hesitation to defend meritocracy may actually work against progressive aims. It seems like meritocracy could go the way of free speech, as a bedrock principle that the left allows the right to claim as its own, even if it matters to a great number of Americans. Just as suppressing free speech will never be popularI wrote on Tuesday about Ron DeSantiss doomed crusade to punish teachers and remove books from librariesleaving behind the idea of meritocracy is a losing proposition.

At the very least, the lefts hesitation to defend meritocracy has given conservatives a chance to monopolize the conversation around it, albeit to varying degrees of success. Last month, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Harvard- and Yale-educated entrepreneur who is running for President on the Republican ticket, announced his candidacy with a video that felt, more than anything, like it had been produced by some ambitious entry-level employees at a consulting firm who had been given access to the A.V. room. Were in the middle of a national identity crisis, Ramaswamy narrates in a voice that sounds like Ben Shapiro impersonating Barack Obama. Patriotism, hard work, and family have disappeared. We now embrace one secular religion after another. From COVIDism to climatism, and gender ideology. He goes on to say that the basic tenets of the woke left have created psychological slavery in the United States, which has completely replaced our culture of free speech in America. At first blush, his message doesnt seem all that out of line: he says most Americans agree on the core values of the country, which include basic, if somewhat abstract, freedoms and the promise of meritocracy. In his speeches and social-media posts, Ramaswamy has clarified a bit what all that means for him. He wants to eliminate the United States Department of Education and eliminate affirmative action because of its inherent anti-white & anti-Asian racism.

For the past five years or so, Ive reported on the rightward shift among immigrant voters, which, in many parts of the country, has been influenced by concerns about public safety and educational merit. There have been signs of an emerging conservative Asian American movement that galvanizes around schooling issues, in both big cities and in affluent suburbs with competitive public-school systems. In New York City, majority-Asian precincts shifted twenty-three points to the G.O.P. In San Francisco, the temporary elimination of merit-based admissions at Lowell High Schoola magnet school where more than half of the student body is Asian Americanprompted political mobilization that led to the removal of three members of the citys school board, and spilled over to the recall of Chesa Boudin, the citys progressive district attorney. These fights have resonated with Asian Americans across the countryespecially Chinese Americanswho believe that equity reforms in education, and moves like the elimination of standardized testing, are all engineered to diminish their academic accomplishments and squeeze off their childrens access to class mobility.

These developments, combined with a similar shift among Latino voters in the past two Presidential elections, and the Democratic Partys failed attempts to reach its imagined coalition of voters of color, has led to a lot of theorizing about a multiracial future for the Republican Party. Ramaswamys strategy, I imagine, is to broadcast a vision of meritocracy that, outside of establishing his culture-war bona fides, also appeals to immigrants who are anxious about their childrens educational and economic prospects. The possibility of a multiracial right that flips states like Virginia, Georgia, and Arizona into Republican strongholds may sit with those voters. Ramaswamy will almost certainly fail in his political ambitions because he cannot tell a story without veering into screeds about wokeness and comically dense monologues about banking law and bureaucratic legal ideas. His conservatism, clearly designed for bankers and tech workers who are worried their kids wont get into the Ivy League, is both weird and off-putting. But that doesnt mean he is wrong to see that the idea of meritocracy resonates with most Americans, that a perceived abandonment of it would make many of those people nervous.

What would it look like for progressives to embrace the idea of American meritocracy? There is an argument to be made that the equity model pushes a vision of merit in which disadvantaged people are finally given a fair chance to compete with the privileged. But its expressionwhether in attempts to scale back standardized testing, diversify corporate boardrooms, or place D.E.I. infrastructure into storied institutionsonly really exists in the same lite, educated spaces where DeSantis and the like have waged their war against wokeness. But the promise of meritocracy can be found elsewhere; it can be found in supporting public schools and community colleges, providing broad economic protections for families, and taxing the super-wealthy. These policies, which are already popular among Democrats, might advance a better story of meritocracyone that could appeal to voters who worry about the overreaches of the equity approach, and one that doesnt abandon an ideal that very few Americans, of any political leaning, would ever leave behind.

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