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Center for Threat-Informed Defense Expands Cybersecurity Community Resources for Applying MITRE ATT&CK®

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

To support the cybersecurity community with implementation of threat-informed defense, MITRE EngenuityTM announced that its Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Center) is releasing two new resources, Mappings Explorer and M3TID.

Key Points: 
  • To support the cybersecurity community with implementation of threat-informed defense, MITRE EngenuityTM announced that its Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Center) is releasing two new resources, Mappings Explorer and M3TID.
  • “Through our collaborative R&D program, we’re working with our member’s cybersecurity teams from around the world to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense,” said Jon Baker, director, Center for Threat-Informed Defense.
  • Mappings Explorer enables cyber defenders to understand how security controls and capabilities protect against the adversary behaviors catalogued in the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base.
  • The Center developed mappings for Google Cloud Platform , AWS , and Azure , and will release mappings for M365 by month’s end.

Empire State Realty Trust Achieves 2024 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) today announced that it achieved the 2024 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the second consecutive year.

Key Points: 
  • Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) today announced that it achieved the 2024 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the second consecutive year.
  • The achievement highlights ESRT’s consistent ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for outstanding leadership in environmental and public health initiatives, as 100% of the company’s NYC commercial portfolio is ENERGY STAR certified.
  • Our second achievement of the Sustained Excellence Award reaffirms our leadership and the power of initiatives to ensure our portfolio is future-ready,” said Anthony E. Malkin, chairman and CEO at Empire State Realty Trust.
  • ENERGY STAR award winners lead their industries in the production, sale, and adoption of energy-efficient products, homes, buildings, services, and strategies.

Expel Unveils Updated NIST CSF 2.0 Getting Started Toolkit to Help Companies on their Security Maturity Journey

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Expel , the leading managed detection and response (MDR) provider, today unveiled the updated version of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Getting Started toolkit .

Key Points: 
  • Expel , the leading managed detection and response (MDR) provider, today unveiled the updated version of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Getting Started toolkit .
  • The kit, which includes a “getting started” guide and a self-scoring spreadsheet, helps security leaders and operators assess their cybersecurity postures, aligned with the recently released version 2.0 of the NIST CSF.
  • “Over the last decade, the NIST CSF has been a critical tool for companies in determining their cybersecurity readiness and assessing where they can improve—and version 2.0 expands on that foundation,” said Greg Notch, Chief Information Security Officer, Expel.
  • Expel’s NIST CSF guide helps security leaders and operators understand how to approach the framework and make sense of its functions, categories, subcategories, and tiers.

Algorand Becomes First Layer-1 Blockchain to Use Python as a Native Programming Language with AlgoKit 2.0 Launch

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

SINGAPORE, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Algorand Foundation today announces the launch of AlgoKit 2.0, the latest upgrade to the AlgoKit command line interface (CLI) – a simple, one-stop toolset for developers building on the Algorand protocol. AlgoKit 2.0's native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python. The toolkit has also been internally re-architected with an improved templating system, creating an overall more streamlined developer experience.

Key Points: 
  • AlgoKit 2.0's native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python.
  • AlgoKit was conceived to help developers quickly and easily build and launch secure, automated, production-ready decentralized applications.
  • A world-class blockchain deserves world-class developer tools, and that's what we're aiming to deliver with AlgoKit," said Algorand Foundation CTO John Woods.
  • AlgoKit will continue to see additional upgrades throughout 2024, including the integration of an additional common programming language.

Algorand Becomes First Layer-1 Blockchain to Use Python as a Native Programming Language with AlgoKit 2.0 Launch

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

SINGAPORE, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Algorand Foundation today announces the launch of AlgoKit 2.0, the latest upgrade to the AlgoKit command line interface (CLI) – a simple, one-stop toolset for developers building on the Algorand protocol. AlgoKit 2.0's native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python. The toolkit has also been internally re-architected with an improved templating system, creating an overall more streamlined developer experience.

Key Points: 
  • AlgoKit 2.0's native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python.
  • AlgoKit was conceived to help developers quickly and easily build and launch secure, automated, production-ready decentralized applications.
  • A world-class blockchain deserves world-class developer tools, and that's what we're aiming to deliver with AlgoKit," said Algorand Foundation CTO John Woods.
  • AlgoKit will continue to see additional upgrades throughout 2024, including the integration of an additional common programming language.

SUSE Strengthens Container Management Portfolio to Help Platform Engineering Teams Manage at Scale, Support AI/ML Workloads

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

"At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.

Key Points: 
  • "At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.
  • New capabilities in Rancher Prime 3.0 help platform engineering teams deliver self-service Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to their developer communities, and enhanced support for AI workloads.
  • SUSE is also introducing Rancher Enterprise, a single package and price for the entire portfolio of Rancher Prime including multi-cluster management, OS management, VM management, persistent storage, and SUSE's certified Linux OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
  • SUSE continues to invest in open source innovation across its entire cloud native portfolio to support its large community of users.

SUSE Strengthens Container Management Portfolio to Help Platform Engineering Teams Manage at Scale, Support AI/ML Workloads

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

"At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.

Key Points: 
  • "At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.
  • New capabilities in Rancher Prime 3.0 help platform engineering teams deliver self-service Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to their developer communities, and enhanced support for AI workloads.
  • SUSE is also introducing Rancher Enterprise, a single package and price for the entire portfolio of Rancher Prime including multi-cluster management, OS management, VM management, persistent storage, and SUSE's certified Linux OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
  • SUSE continues to invest in open source innovation across its entire cloud native portfolio to support its large community of users.

AnaCredit plausibility checks, version 2.0

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

AnaCredit plausibility

Key Points: 
    • AnaCredit plausibility
      checks
      Plausibility checks performed on
      AnaCredit datasets
      Version 2.0

      March 2024

      Contents
      1

      Introduction

      2

      2

      Plausibility checks

      3

      2.1

      Definitions

      3

      2.2

      Classification

      4

      3

      AnaCredit external plausibility checks

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      3.1

      Plausibility checks with other statistical reporting frameworks

      8

      3.2

      Plausibility checks with supervisory reporting frameworks

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      1

      1

      Introduction
      This document sets out the AnaCredit plausibility checks.

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      are erroneous and require revision; second, where the AnaCredit data are correct
      but the BSI data have not been reported correctly; third, where methodological
      differences in the requirements of the two datasets justify the discrepancy.

    • Figure 1
      Types of AnaCredit plausibility check
      Structure

      Stability

      per OA

      Consistency within or across attributes

      Time consistency of aggregate metrics

      across OAs

      Consistency with data of other OAs

      Changes in relative position compared
      to other OAs

      Benchmark
      comparisons

      Consistency with statistical and/or
      supervisory reporting

      Consistency of ratios over time

      Internal
      plausibility

      External
      plausibility

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      2.2.1

      Internal plausibility checks
      Internal plausibility checks are self-contained within the AnaCredit data set, i.e.

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      2.2.2

      External plausibility checks
      External plausibility checks assess the consistency of data reported under AnaCredit
      with other datasets.

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      3

      AnaCredit external plausibility checks
      The following subsections contain the details of the AnaCredit external plausibility
      checks.

    • List of external plausibility checks performed under AnaCredit
      Table 1 shows the external plausibility checks under AnaCredit.
    • Plausibility checks with other statistical reporting
      frameworks
      This section includes AnaCredit external plausibility checks against other statistical
      reporting frameworks.
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      3.1.1.2

      ?

      loans to other financial intermediaries, financial auxiliaries, captive financial
      institutions and money lenders (S.125+S.126+S.127) across all maturity
      breakdowns;

      ?

      loans to insurance corporations (S.128) across all maturity breakdowns;

      ?

      loans to pension funds (S.129) across all maturity breakdown.

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      instruments (loans), so the resulting aggregate is a good match to the BSI statistic.

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      loans.

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      If any of the input data necessary for this calculation are missing or inconsistent, the
      [relevant BSI balance] resolves to NULL for the instrument concerned.

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      the latter assuming the credit risk and the MFI being responsible for managing the
      loan.

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      Intra-company instrument flag
      BSI statistics also include intra-company loans, i.e.

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      Settled loans
      BSI statistics only include loans which have been settled, i.e.

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      resolves to NULL for the instrument concerned.

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      divided by the number of the main debtors.

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      3.2

      Plausibility checks with supervisory reporting frameworks
      This section includes AnaCredit external plausibility checks against supervisory
      reporting frameworks.

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      FINREP templates and compared with suitably computed AnaCredit equivalents for
      banks reporting the supervisory financial information under Regulation ECB/2015/13
      (FINREP solo).

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      Figure 3
      Calculation flow ? schematic overview of the comparison with FINREP solo

      By stacking the FINREP solo benchmark side-by-side with its AnaCredit equivalent,
      the deviation between the values can be quantified.

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      3.2.2.1

      FINREP solo benchmark value
      As mentioned, comparing AnaCredit with supervisory financial information helps
      ensure accounting information on loan portfolios that must be reported to AnaCredit
      is reported properly.

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      Table 3
      The formula for the benchmark DP_FNRP_F1800_ALL_00 from data points from the
      reporting templates of the EBA reporting framework.

    • The composition of FINREP solo reporters thus defined serves as a basis for
      determining (i) which AnaCredit observed agents correspond to which FINREP solo
      reporters, and (ii) the extent to which the perimeter of a FINREP solo reporter can be
      reconstructed from AnaCredit (given that some observed agents may have been

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      derogated from reporting to AnaCredit).

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      For a given FINREP solo reporter, the result of the calculation described in this
      section (i.e.

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i2i Population Health’s PRiZiM Earns ONC Health IT Certification from Drummond Group

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

i2i Population Health’s PRiZiM product has achieved Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC-Health IT) 2015 Edition Health IT certification via Drummond Group LLC, an Authorized Certification Body (ACB).

Key Points: 
  • i2i Population Health’s PRiZiM product has achieved Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC-Health IT) 2015 Edition Health IT certification via Drummond Group LLC, an Authorized Certification Body (ACB).
  • "We are thrilled to receive ONC-Health IT 2015 Edition certification for PRiZiM, a testament to our ongoing commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions that empower healthcare providers," said Justin Neece, CEO at i2i Population Health.
  • To earn the certification, PRiZiM was tested in accordance with all applicable standards and certification criteria put forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
  • PRiZiM, which met the requirements for ONC-ACB [2015 Edition Cures] Certification, is a cloud-based, advanced analytics and reporting platform for provider organizations, health networks or systems, and health plans.

Fisker Provides December 2023 Business Update as Deliveries Grow Over 300% From Q3 to Q4

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Friday, December 29, 2023

Henrik Fisker, Chairman and CEO, said: “We became a revenue-generating company in 2023, but we also faced numerous challenges.

Key Points: 
  • Henrik Fisker, Chairman and CEO, said: “We became a revenue-generating company in 2023, but we also faced numerous challenges.
  • Emerging from COVID-19 created several issues for our supply chains, but we have largely overcome them, and we have delivered approximately 4,700 Fisker Oceans.
  • We have a solid business with relatively low overhead and an award-winning vehicle that customers enjoy.
  • In 2023, the Fisker Ocean also won six different European awards in Germany, France, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.