Sabin, Dalberg, JSI establish COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project, funded by Skoll Foundation31/10/2020 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 -- The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) has partnered with Dalberg and JSI Research & Training Institute Inc (JSI) to create the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project.
Based on a statement, the Skoll Foundation is supporting the project through start-up funding of US$1 million to pilot the programme in four countries. (US$1 = RM4.157) Following a successful pilot, the partners hope to secure additional funding to scale the project to more than 40 countries starting next year. This collaboration will support low and middle-income country immunisation professionals in leading the equitable delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through their national immunisation programmes. It also complements the approach outlined in the COVAX Facility, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, led by the World Health Organization; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. In addition, this project also ensures that national immunisation programmes have the resources and health systems to achieve sustainable global protection from COVID-19 by 2022 and strengthen capacity for vaccination across the lifespan. The COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project will comprise three phases, designed to rapidly assess vaccine distribution landscape, maximise learnings and scale a successful pilot to enable equitable global delivery of vaccines. The Skoll Foundation is funding Phases 1 and 2. Phases of the project will accelerate equitable distribution now, before a vaccine arrives, to ensure that it reaches the most vulnerable when one becomes available. More details at vaccineequity.org -- BERNAMA
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 -- Anomali, an intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions leader, has been selected by Japan-based Machina Record to utilise its product suite to generate threat intelligence.
According to a statement, Anomali’s product suite will strengthen detection and speed response capabilities for its customers across the region. “The APAC region has always been at the centre of the digital world, a factor that attracts the attention of cybercriminals and nation-state adversaries,” said Anomali (APAC) Sr Vice-President and GM, Geoff Noble. “With Anomali underpinning its threat intelligence capabilities, Machina Record will accelerate detection and response over the threats that are most impactful to their customers’ environments.” Machina Record Inc Chief Executive Officer, Yusuke Gunji said: “With Anomali, we are turning vast amounts of data into intelligence that allows us to analyse threats and develop effective countermeasures that reduce risk across our customers’ environments.” Frost & Sullivan recently named Anomali as the winner of the 2020 Frost Radar Innovation Excellence Award for the Global Threat Intelligence Platforms Market, securing the largest share of the market (40 per cent). -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 -- AlumaSafway, a BrandSafway company, has been named a 2020 Constructing Safety Leadership Award winner by the Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association (SCSA).
These annual awards recognise the most successful safety companies and leaders among SCSA’s members, based on their significant achievements in safety leadership and excellent safety practices during the prior year (2019). “This award demonstrates our commitment to continually raising the bar and leading our industry in safety,” said BrandSafway Global Environmental Health and Safety vice-president, Steve Wilson. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the SCSA for their partnership and to congratulate Justin Lasnier, the regional safety manager, Don Black, Saskatchewan branch manager, and all of our dedicated trades workers in Saskatchewan for this outstanding achievement.” The SCSA is an industry-funded, membership-based non-profit organisation that provides safety training and advice to employers and employees in the construction industry throughout the province. Serving almost 10,000 member companies, the SCSA vision is to create the safest construction environment in Canada, according to a statement. More details at www.AlumaSafway.com. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 -- Pulse Secure, the software-defined Secure Access solutions provider, has announced delivery of a deployment at PERSOL Group, designed to provide secure, remote access to employees while enabling the company to move to a Zero Trust architecture.
Based in Japan, PERSOL Group comprises 136 companies in Japan and overseas, with 492 domestic and 188 overseas offices and staffed by around 50,000 employees, according to a statement. To overcome the challenges of maintaining its existing closed network, the group had initially sought to deploy a quarantine solution and a VPN solution to enable employees to connect to its servers securely. With this exercise, the IT team at PERSOL found that Pulse Secure was able to deliver on both fronts, enabling employees to securely access the internal network with a vastly improved user interface. As the pandemic in early 2020 forced the lockdown of cities globally, PERSOL accelerated its deployment of Pulse Connect Secure provided by Pulse Secure Japan to keep its business running amid emergency health and safety measures. Going forward, PERSOL plans to further deploy cloud proxies and Identity as a Service and other cloud-based services that do not require users to always log on to an internal network. PERSOL now aims to use Zero Trust as a concept to build a secure and flexible network, while keeping things seamless for the end-user. More details at www.pulsesecure.net. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 -- Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) business has been chosen as an approved vendor for the SME GoDigital programme, operated by Infocomm Media Development Association (IMDA).
IMDA supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their efforts to adopt digital technologies to seize growth opportunities and streamline their operations, according to a statement. “We look forward to working with the qualifying financial institutions, IMDA and the regulators to encourage Singapore’s banking sector to adopt cloud strategies,” said Wolters Kluwer FRR, APAC Managing Director, Rainer Fuchsluger. The SME Go Digital initiative enables institutions operating in Singapore to receive a grant to cover the implementation costs of adopting a pre-approved solution, with over 20,000 SMEs having adopted digital solutions from the programme since its launch in 2017. In association with The Monetary Authority of Singapore, IMDA is rolling out the GoDigital programme for the Financial sector, while Wolters Kluwer FRR has been accorded pre-approved vendor status for its market-leading OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting SaaS solution. The OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting SaaS solution includes an updated OneSumX Regulatory Engine characterised by its enhanced performance, better user experience, automation and scalability functionalities. The SaaS solution, like the OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting on-premise solution, combines bank data into a single source of data to ensure consistency, ease of reconciliation and accuracy. Wolters Kluwer FRR, a part of Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk & Compliance division, is a global market leader in the provision of integrated regulatory compliance and reporting solutions. -- BERNAMA |
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