InSAR-based Approach Discovers Spatio-temporal Slope Susceptibility Tokyo, Japan, 23rd March 2022 – Synspective Inc., under the supervision of the World Bank and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), Government of Nepal, investigated the land displacement hazards in the upstream part of the Melamchi River, Nepal in response to the destructive flood disaster that occurred there on June 15, 2021. The results demonstrated that Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and time-series interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis-based Earth observation techniques have the capabilities to offer a more cost-saving alternative to periodically…
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Brady Technologies acquires CRisk
LONDON – Wednesday September 15th 2021: Brady Technologies (“Brady”), a leading provider of energy and commodities trading, risk and logistics management software, is pleased to announce that it has acquired CRisk, an enterprise risk management platform for the energy and commodities markets. CRisk’s software enables physical and financial trading participants to globally manage their credit and liquidity risk on a modern, intuitive platform. The acquisition will strengthen Brady’s extensive risk management and analytics capabilities. “The acquisition elevates our market position in the risk management space and demonstrates our commitment to…
Read MoreOver-C Hails Successful Year of Development, Customer Wins and Key Hires
Over-C, a leading provider of digital workplace management solutions, is pleased to announce an update on its past year as it looks forward to building on its successes in 2021. Despite the global pandemic challenges and necessity for remote working for most of the year, Over-C made significant progress in the development of its technology, adding key new customer wins with the likes of Waterford Institute of Technology Arena (WIT) and making several key hires across the business to focus on critical verticals in the next 12 months and beyond….
Read MoreProtecting Against the Hidden Healthcare Risk: Printing and Imaging Devices
By Mark Gross, Senior Product Manager at Kofax Healthcare data breaches are often the result of unsecure devices and the failure of employees to follow best practices. Two-thirds of UK healthcare organisations reported a breach in 2019, according to a cybersecurity survey conducted by Clearswift. According to the think tank, Parliament Street’s analysis of 68 UK National Health Service (NHS) trusts, 162,000 documents went missing in the fiscal year 2017-2018. This is in addition to 702,000 pieces of paperwork the trusts had already known to be lost. Despite these vulnerabilities,…
Read MoreSchneider Electric reinforces supplier risk management
The Group has joined the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), an association promoting high standards in fields such as human rights, business ethics, environment, health & safety Schneider Electric will use RBA methods and tools for its new strategic supplier development programme London UK, March 8, 2018 – To step up accountability in its supply chain, particularly in terms of the suppliers most exposed to risks such as human rights or environmental issues, Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has joined the Responsible Business Alliance…
Read MoreNew report from CREST highlights the need to improve cyber security in Industrial Control Systems
A lack of standards-based technical security testing is putting industrial control environments and critical national infrastructure at risk 29 June 2017: There is a pressing need to improve cyber security in Industrial Control System (ICS) environments to avoid future breaches that could impact critical national infrastructure concludes CREST, the not-for-profit accreditation body representing the technical information security industry, in its latest position paper, ‘Industrial Control Systems: Technical Security Assurance’. The report highlights a number of challenges and suggests that more technical security testing has a significant role to play in…
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