Aussie tech companies clean up with $6.9M cyber security grant splash
14 organisations tasked with helping SMEs turn around cyber risks.
Several Australian channel players have reaped new grants for cyber security training from the Department of Industry, Science and Technology.
IT service providers and managed security service providers will account for roughly 40 per cent of the department’s Cyber Security Business Connect and Protect Program, which is providing a total of $6.9 million to help minimise small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ) security risks.
In total, 14 businesses have been chosen to receive grants that will help businesses identify security risks and take active steps to secure their systems.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s lifting of the mask mandate has deadly health risks for Latino families, their economic mobility, and the state’s economy.
This decision is not an isolated case of the state’s leadership callousness and inequities toward people of color and already vulnerable, low-income workers. Scapegoating immigrants as a diversion from his decision was an added insult. Undocumented immigrants give more to our economy than they take. They risk their lives daily - unacknowledged and unrewarded - in essential areas of our economy or caregiving for our loved ones during COVID-19.
Texas is the only state where more than half of all COVID-19 deaths are Latino – we are dying at a rate 3.5 times higher than white non-Latinos. Latino domestic workers, farmworkers, and other frontline workers - in meatpacking plants, construction, hospitality, health-care, and foodservice industries - have experienced severe financial losses and poorer health. Paying for food and bill
3M launches New Program for Reopening Facilities
The four-part Clean & Protect Certified Badge Program promotes cleanliness, confidence and compliance allowing facilities to reopen and stay open.
Feb 19th, 2021
ST. PAUL, MN Since the beginning of the pandemic, 3M has played a critical role in the global response to COVID-19, and as economies reopen, 3M is helping businesses return to work. Today, the company is launching the 3M Clean & Protect Certified Badge Program, a new comprehensive system for cleaning, monitoring and protecting facilities. There is a cautious optimism in the air as the world emerges from this global pandemic, said Greg Brown, facility care business director for 3M Commercial Solutions Division. By providing our customers with the tools, products and training needed to reopen, the Clean & Protect Program not only provides facility teams with the ability to help create a safer work environment but also helps gives their guests more confidence
Jay-Ann Gilfoy spoke at CMHC presents The Walrus Talks at Home: Housing, which took place on November 26, 2020.
Hello, I’m Jay-Ann Gilfoy, CEO of Vancity Community Investment Bank. I’d like to start off by acknowledging that I’m speaking from the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, represented by the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations. They have been custodians of this land for thousands of years and I would like to pay respects to elders both past and present.
Canada’s housing and affordability crisis is one of the most critical challenges facing our communities today. According to a newly published Toronto Foundation report, in Toronto nearly half of all renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing that’s the point at which housing is considered unaffordable. At the height of the pandemic in April and May this year, up to 13% of renters were unable to pay their rent in full. It’s not just Toronto eithe