William Mackintosh, Web Manager, University of York and Damon Querry, Senior Web Development Officer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne will be looking at Search Technology within the University Environmen. The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has implemented a Google Search Appliance. The University of York is committed to the purchase of the Google Mini. The session will discuss the reasons for selecting these products and how they add value to an institution's Web site.

Universities undertake research through a mesh of partnerships, collaborations and contractual relationships. Major research funding bodies, such as government departments, are increasingly encouraging their contractors to adopt formal quality assurance standards - such as ISO 9001:2000. If you haven't come across this already, you are likely to see it very soon! In this talk John Gilbey, Institute QA Manager, IGER discussed the impact of quality standards on the way Web resources - internal and external - are defined, delivered, managed and reviewed in academic environments. An over-view of the quality requirement is presented, along with some pragmatic suggestions to help you deal with it.

ETSI releases cybersecurity specification to secure sensitive functions in a virtualized environment

Sophia Antipolis, 6 February 2019

The ETSI Technical Committee on Cybersecurity (TC CYBER) has just released ETSI TS 103 457, that tackles the challenge of secure storage - where organizations want to protect customer data whilst still using a cloud that is not under their direct control.

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ETSI Open Source MANO unveils Release SEVEN, enables more than 20,000 cloud-native applications for NFV environments

Sophia Antipolis, 12 December 2019

Today, the ETSI Open Source MANO group is pleased to unveil its latest release, OSM Release SEVEN. This release brings cloud-native applications to NFV deployments, enabling OSM to on-board over 20,000 pre-existing production-ready Kubernetes applications, with no need of any translation or repackaging. OSM release SEVEN allows you to combine within the same Network Service the flexibility of cloud-native applications with the predictability of traditional virtual and physical network functions (VNFs and PNFs) and all the required advanced networking required to build complex end to end telecom services.

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New ETSI White Paper on Enhanced DNS Support in Distributed MEC Environments

Sophia Antipolis, 8 September 2020

Today ETSI announces the publication of its White Paper on DNS Support in Distributed MEC Environments. DNS (Domain Name System) is a key infrastructure element in any distributed edge cloud as it is used to ensure that modern (i.e. URL/URI-based) services requests are resolved to the properly located service instances. The best instance may often be decided based on properties other than location, e.g., service latency, resource availability as well as the device identifier.

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ETSI releases a Report to enable MEC deployment in a multi-operator’s environment

Sophia Antipolis, 20 July 2021

The ETSI MEC Industry Specification Group (ETSI ISG MEC) has just released a new Group Report ETSI GR MEC 0035 to enable inter-MEC system deployment and MEC-Cloud system coordination. This Report was motivated by the mobile network operators’ interest in forming federated MEC environments and enabling information exchange in a secure manner, in the event that MEC platforms or applications belong to different MEC systems.

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ITU, UN Environment Programme and ETSI celebrate the EU Green Week

Sophia Antipolis, 8 June 2022

On 1 June 2022, during the EU Green Week, ITU in collaboration with UN Environment Programme and ETSI organized a Workshop on “Global Digital ICT Product Passport to achieve a Circular Economy”. Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI Director-General and Malcolm Johnson​, Deputy Secretary General, ITU gave the opening remarks.

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As organizations create and store more data in the cloud, security teams must ensure the data is protected from cyberthreats. Learn more about what causes data breaches and about the best practices you can adopt to secure data stored in the cloud.

With the explosion of data being generated and stored in the cloud, hackers are creating new and innovative attack techniques to gain access to cloud environments and steal data. A review of recent major data breaches shows us that data thieves are using social engineering, hunting for exposed credentials, looking for unpatched vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and employing other sophisticated techniques to breach cloud environments.

A look at recent cloud data-breach trends

Here are some takeaways from major data breaches that have occurred this year:

• Managing the risk from your third-parties – partners, service providers, vendors – has always been critical. It’s even more so when these trusted organizations have access to your cloud environment and cloud data. You must make sure that your third-parties are using proper cloud-security protections to safeguard their access to your cloud data and to your cloud environment.
• Secure your identities. We’ve seen major data breaches this year tracked down to simple missteps like failing to protect highly-privileged admin accounts and services with multi-factor authentication (MFA). 
• Adopt best practices to prevent ransomware attacks, and to mitigate them if you get hit by one. Ransomware gangs know that a surefire way to pressure victims into paying ransoms is to hijack their systems and threaten to expose their sensitive data. 

So, how can you strengthen your data security posture against these types of attacks?

1. Implement a "zero trust" security framework that requires all users, whether inside or outside the organization, to be authenticated, authorized and continuously validated before being granted or maintaining access to data. This framework should allow only time-limited access and be based on the principle of least privilege, which limits access and usage to the minimum amount of data required to perform the job.
2. Use a cloud data security posture management (DSPM) solution to enforce the security framework through continuous monitoring, automation, prioritization and visibility. DSPM solutions can help organizations identify and prioritize data security risks based on their severity, allowing them to focus their resources on the most critical issues.
3. Regularly conduct risk assessments to detect and remediate security risks before they can be exploited by hackers. This can help prevent data breaches and minimize the impact of any security incidents that do occur.
4. Train employees on security best practices, including how to create strong passwords, how to identify risks and how to report suspicious activity.

By following these recommendations, organizations can significantly reduce their risk of a data breach and improve handling sensitive data belonging to their organization. As more and more data moves to the cloud and hackers become more sophisticated, it's essential to prioritize security and take proactive measures to protect against data risks. 

Learn more

• Webinar: Know Your Exposure: Is Your Cloud Data Secure in the Age of AI?
• Data Sheet: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Integrated into Tenable Cloud Security
• Data Sheet: Securing AI Resources and Data in the Cloud with Tenable Cloud Security
• Infographic: When CNAPP Met DSPM
• Video: Demo Video: Data Security Posture Management and AI Security Posture Management

Tenable®, the exposure management company, today announced the availability of Tenable Enclave Security, a solution that supports the needs of customers operating in highly secure environments, such as those that are classified or otherwise air-gapped. Backed by Tenable Security Center, Tenable Enclave Security protects IT assets and modern workloads with risk assessment and contextual insight so organizations can identify exposures before they cause damage.

Federal agencies face unique security and compliance regulations when deploying cloud solutions, and Tenable Enclave Security is key to supporting public sector customers, as well as commercial organizations with strict data residency, security or privacy requirements. 

Built to support the strictest security requirements, including FedRAMP High and Impact Level 5, Tenable Enclave Security empowers agencies to know, expose and close IT and container exposures from a single, highly secure platform. This consolidated approach also eliminates tool sprawl, reduces costs and boosts efficiency for public sector organizations.

“As a leader in vulnerability management and cloud security and a longtime partner of governments all around the world, we’re perfectly positioned to tap into our expertise and deliver mission critical capabilities to assist government agencies as they transform their IT strategy and safely embrace modern workloads to speed innovation,” said Robert Huber, chief security officer and president, Tenable Public Sector, Tenable. “With Tenable Enclave Security, agencies are now able to gain a fuller understanding of their exposure and risk with the ability to continuously discover, assess and prioritize vulnerabilities across IT assets and container images, all from a single, highly secure framework.”

Tenable Enclave Security will immediately enable organizations to: 

• Meet cloud security and data residency restrictions: Tenable Enclave Security enables customers to meet stringent cloud security and data residency requirements, such as FedRAMP High or Impact Level 5. It can meet customers’ needs wherever they reside, with the ability to be deployed on-prem, in a virtual private cloud or commercial cloud.
• Secure containers before they hit production: As agencies modernize their infrastructure, containers create a more efficient manner to create applications and modernize existing ones. Tenable Enclave Security empowers organizations to quickly assess the risk in their container images, expose their vulnerabilities and understand the breadth of impact.
• Centralize security tools: Unlike siloed solutions with fragmented visibility, Tenable Enclave Security provides protection for IT assets and modern workloads from a single deployment architecture. 

For more information on Tenable Enclave Security, please visit: https://www.tenable.com/products/enclave-security 

About Tenable

Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for more than 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com. 

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Tenable®, the exposure management company, today announced new data security posture management (DSPM) and artificial intelligence security posture management (AI-SPM) capabilities for Tenable Cloud Security, the actionable cloud security solution. By extending exposure management capabilities to cloud data and AI resources, Tenable Cloud Security reduces risk to two of the biggest emerging threats.

Today’s cloud environments are more complex than ever. The challenge of managing this complexity has led to preventable security gaps caused by misconfigurations, risky entitlements and vulnerabilities, leaving sensitive data and AI resources vulnerable. In fact, Tenable Research found that 38% of organizations are battling a toxic cloud trilogy – cloud workloads that are publicly exposed, critically vulnerable and highly privileged. 

Tenable Cloud Security exposes risk from across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and excess privilege, that affects data and AI resources. Integrating DSPM and AI-SPM into Tenable Cloud Security enables users to automatically discover, classify and analyze sensitive data risk with flexible, agentless scanning. With Tenable Cloud Security’s intuitive user interface, security leaders can easily answer tough questions – such as “What type of data do I have in the cloud and where is it located?,” “What AI resources are vulnerable and how do I remediate the issue?” and “Who has access to my sensitive cloud and AI data?”

“Data is constantly on the move and new uses for data in today’s AI-driven world have created new risks,” said Liat Hayun, vice president of product management for Tenable Cloud Security. “DSPM and AI-SPM capabilities from Tenable Cloud Security bring context into complex risk relationships, so teams can prioritize threats based on the data involved. This gives customers the confidence to unlock the full potential of their data without compromising security.”

“The importance of cloud data has made communicating data exposure risk one of the biggest security challenges for CISOs,” said Philip Bues, senior research manager, Cloud Security at IDC. “Tenable is at the forefront of this emerging DSPM-CNAPP conversation, enabling customers to contextualize and prioritize data risk and communicate it, which is pertinent to almost every domain in CNAPP.”

AI-SPM features enable customers to confidently forge ahead with AI adoption by enforcing AI and machine learning configuration best practices and securing training data. With the combined power of AI-SPM and Tenable Cloud Security’s market-leading cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) capabilities, customers can manage AI entitlements, reduce exposure risk of AI resources, and safeguard critical AI and machine learning training data to ensure data integrity. 

Available to all Tenable Cloud Security and Tenable One customers, these new features enable customers to:

• Gain complete visibility and understanding of cloud and AI data - Tenable Cloud Security continuously monitors multi-cloud environments to discover and classify data types, assign sensitivity levels and prioritize data risk findings in the context of the entire cloud attack surface. 
• Effectively prioritize and remediate cloud risk - Backed by vulnerability intelligence from Tenable Research, context-driven analytics provides security teams with prioritized and actionable remediation guidance to remediate the most threatening cloud exposures.
• Proactively identify cloud and AI data exposure - Unique identity and access insights enable security teams to reduce data exposure in multi-cloud environments and AI resources by monitoring how data is being accessed and used and detect anomalous activity. 

Join the upcoming Tenable webinar, “Know Your Exposure: Is Your Cloud Data Secure in the Age of AI?” on October 22, 2024 at 10 am BST and 11 am ET, by registering here. 

Read today’s blog post, “Harden your cloud security posture by protecting your cloud data and AI resources” here. 

With a Net Promoter Score of 73, Tenable Cloud Security helps customers around the world expose and close priority threats. More information about DSPM and AI-SPM capabilities available in Tenable Cloud Security is available at: https://www.tenable.com/announcements/dspm-ai-spm

About Tenable

Tenable® is the exposure management company, exposing and closing the cybersecurity gaps that erode business value, reputation and trust. The company’s AI-powered exposure management platform radically unifies security visibility, insight and action across the attack surface, equipping modern organizations to protect against attacks from IT infrastructure to cloud environments to critical infrastructure and everywhere in between. By protecting enterprises from security exposure, Tenable reduces business risk for approximately 44,000 customers around the globe. Learn more at tenable.com. 

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Global Food Policy Report 2024: Improving governance to create supportive environments for diet and nutrition policies

Key steps to strengthen institutions and relationships

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Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $200,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! Our grant programs include the Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund and the Social and Environmental Sustainability Grant.

Join us in these information sessions to learn more about which grant program is right for your project and get the support you and your team needs through the application process!

Info sessions take place virtually every Tuesday from 10-11a and every Wednesday from 2-3p. Come chat with us!

Environmental proteomics as a useful methodology for early-stage detection of stress in anammox engineered systems  ScienceDirect.com

Proteomics, Human Environmental Exposure, and Cardiometabolic Risk  AHA Journals

Proteomics, Human Environmental Exposure, and Cardiometabolic Risk  AHA Journals

Reporting and reproducibility: Proteomics of fish models in environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology  ScienceDirect.com

EXCRETE workflow enables deep proteomics of the microbial extracellular environment | Communications Biology  Nature.com

The Indigenous rights activist was honored for her grassroots leadership and policy advocacy in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond.

UCLA School of Law’s Cara Horowitz and Ann Carlson discuss regulations, litigation and California’s pivotal role.

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TORONTO , ON — A new University of Toronto study may force scientists to rethink what is behind the mass extinction of amphibians occurring worldwide in the face of climate change, disease and habitat loss. The old cliché “size matters” is in fact the gist of the findings by graduate student Stephen De Lisle and […]

TORONTO, ON — The University of Toronto Scarborough broke ground today (Oct. 8) on the technologically advanced Environmental Science and Chemistry Building (ESCB). Since the new building will be home to environmental sciences, UTSC is walking the talk: targeting LEED Gold certification with sustainable features that include geothermal boreholes, an Earth Tube system to supply 100 […]

TORONTO, ON — Countries with higher levels of compassion and openness score better when it comes to environmental sustainability, says research from the University of Toronto. A new study by Jacob Hirsh, an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute for Management & Innovation, who is […]

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Today, Bitcoin consumes as much energy as a small country. This certainly sounds alarming — but the reality is a little more complicated, says Nic Carter, whose firm invests in public blockchain startups.

"If you hold a leadership position in your workplace, commit to these five strategies to create a positive work environment. While its benefits will extend to everyone, for neurodivergent employees, these strategies could mean the difference between struggling in silence and thriving in an environment that understands and meets their needs."

Before the pandemic, 17 percent of US employees worked remotely full-time. Now, it's closer to 44 percent. More businesses than ever before are operating without physical headquarters or offices, giving their employees lots of flexibility around their work schedules and workplaces. And it is safe to say that these remote work policies are here to ...

Materials are designed to withstand the environment and stress to which they will be subjected. The properties of a material or component involve not only the elemental composition but manufacturing processes such as heat treatment and machining processes.

Maplesoft today released Möbius, a hands-on learning tool focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The online courseware environment provides an interactive platform for students to explore STEM concepts, visualize problems and solutions, and receive real-time assessment feedback.

Smarter HVAC equipment in indoor agriculture benefits both the technician and the grower, and the most-precise is yet to come.

High temperature fluctuations, foot traffic, dirt and debris, and more can wreak havoc on units, particularly if they are not well maintained.

Overby-Sheppard Elementary needed more than an HVAC upgrade, but with tight budgets and minimal state funding, it didn’t seem likely.

With finite resources, operators everywhere should be spending smartly to enhance the “green” sustainability of their operation.

Filter fans perform a critical task of cooling equipment within electrical enclosures while also protecting equipment from harmful materials.

This product line is designed for continuous gas monitoring in multiple application settings.

Although evaporative cooling is great at saving energy, it does consume some water, but the benefits on energy savings outweigh the water usage, which in some places is a scarce resource.

Based on hygrometer technology, this product identifies deviations from ambient rh levels, which can cause static hazards at manufacturing sites and discomfort in homes and offices.

There is a new term making its way into the commercial controls arena: digital twin.

Since more companies are putting a focus on ESG principles, the HVAC industry is positioned to turn those goals, into a reality.

On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother’s house in West Maui. The power was out, and she heard there was a

Nina brings us an animal themed Your Planet this week with stories from South Africa and the United States of America, as we look at what is being done to help endangered animals.

RT Specialty’s Hamilton, NJ office has promoted Justin Kochmer, Kelly Jackson, and Joe Fagan to Senior Account Managers, recognizing their contributions to enhancing the insurance experience for clients. Their dedication and leadership are expected to drive further success within the team.

Garnett Station Partners, a New York-based investment firm managing over $2.3 billion in assets, has made a strategic growth investment in Bristol Environmental. This partnership aims to expand Bristol's reach and enhance its environmental remediation and abatement services.

Global warming and climate change have created an unprecedented global interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in energy production. Biomass, or organic matter, which is a renewable energy source that can replace fossil fuels in energy production is gaining popularity. Consequently, commercialising agricultural residues as biomass is gaining momentum in many countries. In a pioneering study, Onur Boyabatli, Associate Professor of Operations Management and DBS Sustainability Fellow at SMU’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business, together with Assistant Professor of Operations Management Buket Avci, and PhD student Li Bin, studied the economic and environmental implications of biomass commercialisation in agricultural processing industries. In this podcast, Associate Professor Boyabatli shares his insights into this trending subject and the policy implications of their research findings.

A new paper presents the first clear evidence that the relationship between fog levels and vegetation status is measurable using remote sensing. The discovery opens up the potential to easily and rapidly assess fog's impact on ecological health across large land masses -- as compared to painstaking ground-level observation.

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