Tag archives for Security
PTCL achieves ISO Certifications for Cloud Infrastructure Services Security
PR: PTCL has become the country’s first telecom operator to achieve two ISO certifications in parallel for its cloud services ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ (IaaS) offering. These are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27017:2015. The…
Zoo safety and regulations needed for better management of the zoos and for public security
Zoos like any other organization and institution have suffered occasionally due to security issues around the globe. From time to time tragic incidents of people or children falling inside animal…
Agriculture, climate change, and food security
Climate change is having significant results on our planet’s diversity of life and individuals lives. Sea levels are rising and they are warming. Longer, more exceptional dry seasons debilitate freshwater…
Three National Centers for Cyber Security, Big Data & Cloud computing approved by the government
The establishment of National center for cyber security, big data & cloud computing and Robotics & Automation was approved by the government planning commission of Pakistan. The establishing of National…
Risks of climate change to food security and their possible solution
According to the World Bank report, poverty and hunger, emphasized on temporal dynamics of food insecurity in 1986. Food security became a major issue when spectrum spanned from individual to…
PTCL Smart Cloud certified on International Security Standards
PR: Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) reaches yet another milestone in Digital Services as it attains Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) certification for its Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) offering - PTCL…
Significance of Bacillus thuringiensis for Food Security and its Future Standpoint
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is an important tool beginning from the start of 20th century till now. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) was a splendid discovery made in about 1900s by a Japanese…
Pakistan foreswearing modes to food security
Pakistan is in a foreswearing mode about food security as world marked day on this squeezing worldwide issue. Malnutrition is common in this nation of more than 210 million tummies.…
GIS for National Security and Counterterrorism Strategy
At least for the last three decades, one of the most discussed topics in social sciences is terrorism and national security. However, social sciences lack a logical justification of why…
Pakistan at elevated risk of malware attack, says Microsoft Security Report
Internet has eased up our lives at various levels but along with its bad part like cyber threats looming on the Internet and turns out, Pakistanis may be more prone…
Control of Food-Borne Parasites for Improved Food Safety and Security
As livestock is a major source of food production, growth of food animals is hampered by diseases and ultimately livestock sector is disturbed. This is particularly important because livestock sector…
Food Security Issues related to meat-borne parasites
Communities related to global health have recognized that parasites have great influence on human economic activities, health and nutrition but unfortunately the same consideration has not been achieved by the…
Food security policy ready for legislation
Food Security Policy from the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) is ready with its first draft for consultation with provincial partners and Cabinet for discussion. Dr. Yusuf Zafar Chairman PARC…
Experts fear termination of food security project will hit research sector
Termination of $30 million food security project by USAID has drawn criticism from experts and stakeholders and they fear that the abrupt decision will affect the ongoing research and scholar…
Pakistan needs to adopt latest technology for food security
Farming community should be encouraged by government and facilitate them to adopt innovative and latest technology of the time for minimizing post-harvest losses and maximizing production of agriculture, said Abdul…
Global Information Security Association of Pakistani Professionals (GISPP)
Background GISPP (Global Information Security Association of Pakistani Professionals) was initiated by a group of Pakistani Information Security professional living and working in Saudi Arabia. It started with a…
‘Water Security and Emerging Threats in Pakistan’
A large number of students, water experts, specialists, climatologists, and the government representative raise their voices to record their concern for water scarcity. They appealed to private and government sector…