Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 12 | Page 16

NEWS Israeli supermarket chain offers high-tech shopping experience T rigo Vision, a computer vision start-up reshaping the retail experience, and Shufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, have announced that it has signed an agreement to install Trigo Vision’s advanced automated retail platform across its 272 stores countrywide. Shufersal will be the first supermarket chain globally to offer customers a completely seamless shopping experience akin to ‘Amazon Go’. Trigo Vision emerged from stealth in July with a seed round of US$7 million funded by UK-Israel based Hetz Ventures and Vertex Ventures Israel. Leveraging world-class AI, Trigo Vision combines a highly sophisticated, ceiling-based camera network with machine vision algorithms to eliminate the need for a checkout process. The cameras identify and capture customers’ shopping items with exceptional levels of accuracy during the in-store journey. in the stores. This venture will also drive efficiency and minimise costs across our operation. Its scalability and flexibility also mean that we can roll out this technology across all of our stores, whether small express shops or larger hypermarkets.” “Shufersal is a clear market leader in adopting innovation and bringing new retail experiences to its customers. [The company] immediately recognised the potential of our platform and we’re delighted to be collaborating with it, propelling the forefront of the next retail era here in Israel,” said Michael Gabay, CEO and Co- founder of Trigo Vision. “We are very excited to begin the process of development and embedding of Trigo Vision’s retail automation platform in order to offer our customers a completely seamless checkout experience,” said Itzik Abercohen, CEO of Shufersal. “Customer satisfaction is one of Shufersal’s main guiding principles with technology playing a big role. We believe our cooperation with Trigo will transform the shopping experience and will minimise our customers’ friction points ////////////////// Researchers reported vulnerabilities in market- leading drone platform R esearchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., headquartered in Israel and a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, and DJI, a world leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, have shared details of a potential vulnerability that could have impacted DJI’s infrastructure, if exploited. DJI consumer users who had synced their flight records, including photos, videos and flight logs to DJI’s cloud servers, and DJI corporate users who used DJI FlightHub software, which includes a live camera, audio and map view, could have become vulnerable. This vulnerability has since been patched and there is no evidence it was ever exploited. “Following this discovery, it is important for organisations to understand that sensitive information can be used between all platforms and if exposed on one platform, can lead to compromise of global infrastructure,” said Oded Vanunu, Head of Products Vulnerability Research at Check Point. In a report submitted in accordance with DJI’s Bug Bounty Program, Check Point research outlined the process in which an attacker could have potentially gained access to a user’s account through a vulnerability discovered in the user identification process within DJI Forum, a DJI-sponsored online forum about DJI products. Check Point’s researchers discovered that DJI’s platforms used a token to identify registered users across different aspects of the customer experience, making it a target for hackers looking for ways to access accounts. 16 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com