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September 07 2010
Important: 265 dengue outbreak sites declared in Malaysia
A high dengue alert has been issued nationwide following two more deaths, taking the toll to 103 between January and August this year. There were only 68 deaths recorded last year.The Health Ministry has also declared 265 localities nationwide as dengue outbreak sites. Of the total, 21 sites are dengue hot spot localities, with 274 cases reported.At the dengue hot spot localities here and in Johor, Sarawak, Selangor and Kelantan, the ministry has put up signboards at strategic locations alerting people to the disease.Last week, 1,159 people were infected with the deadly disease compared with 1,074 the previous week. This brings the total number of cases to 32,688, compared with 29,700 cases in the same period last year.Director-general of Health Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican also directed all doctors in public and private hospitals to check patients who come in with dengue symptoms thoroughly before sending them home with medication.
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September 06 2010
Important: Hamburg Islamist Speaks of Threat of Attacks in Germany
German officials are investigating apparent statements by a Hamburg Islamist recently arrested by US forces in Afghanistan about attack scenarios for terror strikes in Germany and neighboring countries. Ahmad S. is one of a number of Germany-based Islamists thought to have traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2009.Federal authorities in Germany are moving quickly to investigate claims by a German Islamist based in Afghanistan that militant jihadists may be planning attacks in Germany. American security forces detained Ahmad S. in Kabul at the beginning of July on suspicion of terrorism. The 36-year-old, who comes from Hamburg, Germany, has since been interrogated at the US military prison in Baghram.He is reported to have spoken extensively about attack scenarios in Germany and neighboring European countries, according to information obtained by SPIEGEL. The Americans consider the prisoner to be an important source. S. is believed to be part of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IBU), a terror organization that has succeeded in attracting a number of recruits from Germany.
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September 06 2010
Information: Escalating Threats and Exploding Social Media are Increasing the Cyber Security Challenge
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010Time: 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT With almost everything now connected through the Internet, organizations become more vulnerable to cyber intrusion. As a result, cyber security is a senior management issue, not just a technical problem. Join Accenture and Forrester to explore the current global cyber security situation and learn how your organization can adopt a proactive cyber security approach.
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September 06 2010
Information: Risk Management - The role of risk management
The role of risk management, in a justice and security organization is to, asses and analyzes risk exposure. However you must determine a suitable strategy for management. The analysis of risk is basically getting prepared any situation that would cost the organization. Now more than ever, the process of managing risk in criminal justice and private security organizations you could accomplish as effective risk management by analyzing risk and identifying risk through the identification. As soon as possible, find a strategy that will be effective. Also included in the process of managing risk is placing risk into categories, the resemble of risk and risk consequences. Although the roles that risk management plays in criminal justice and private security organizations are similar service, it is essential in each area very often.
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September 06 2010
Information: White Paper - IT Security: A Step by Step Guide for Growing Business - Stage 1 (The Security Essentials)
The vast majority of organizations, and probably every SMB, will find it needs to draw the line somewhere in between. This paper has been written for that majority. It describes three stages of development along the security risk management path, starting at the beginning. * Stage 1 Do the security essentials. Every organization should implement at least this minimum set of security controls to give themselves a baseline level of protection. This paper will say what these basic security controls are. Every organization, no matter how small, should at least make sure it gets through to the end of Stage 1. * Customize the essentials. Before trying to take on a wider range of security controls, customize those basic security controls to maximise the return they provide. This paper will describe how to do that. Every organization should make a start on this second stage, even if it decides not to make it through to the end. * For those who still have some fuel in the tank, identify where there is a mismatch between security need and security provision and start to fill in the gaps. This paper will show how to go about that.
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September 06 2010
Information: Strategies to Manage Virtual Data Center Growth
ONE OF THE biggest problems facing modern data centers is growth. The increasingdemands of users, applications and data have strained data center resources andbudgets. It s easy to see why virtualization has been touted as a solution to data center growth. After all, the consolidation realized by running more workloads on less hardware brings a sense of efficiency that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.STANDARDS AND regulations are requiring many organizations to evaluate their dataprotection measures. Moving to the cloud can impact an organization s ability to comply with these regulations and standards. Virtually every regulation requires organizations to adequately protect their physical and informational assets.
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