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New $33m Armadale TAFE will provide specialised training spaces for ECEC

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Designs for the $33.8 million Armadale TAFE campus have been finalised, and tenders advertised as the project moves one step closer to reality. 

 

The new multi-storey centre will provide training in childcare, business, community services, mental health and education and will increase learning opportunities in Armadale, particularly for young people. 

 

South Metropolitan TAFE will deliver sector and industry relevant training across a range of areas, including early childhood education and care (ECEC), community services, mental health, business, education support and general education at the purpose-built campus.

 

The contemporary facilities will also have specialist areas for logistics, information technology, emerging industries and cyber security and will merge three aging premises which are currently being used in the Armadale town centre for learning. 

 

Architects Armstrong Collective have designed the campus to be a vibrant community hub and help revitalise the local area. It will be located on Church Avenue within the town centre and a short distance from the Armadale train station.

 

ECEC training will take place in a simulated childcare space while other qualifications will make use of classrooms, computer laboratories, simulated office space, meeting rooms, a crèche and a student hub, which will include food and drink preparation areas.

 

The Armadale Jobs and Skills Centre will also relocate to the new campus, connecting the local community with training and employment opportunities.

  

Construction is expected to commence in late 2022, with training to commence at the campus in Semester 2, 2024.

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Ransomware Attacks: Why Case Studies Provide Rare Learning Opportunities

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by Patterson Belknap • May 4, 2022

The United States suffered a staggering 421.5 million ransomware attempts in 2021, a 98% increase from 2020. Those figures come from United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs staff report titled “America’s Data Held Hostage: Case Studies in Ransomware Attacks on American Companies.”

The report details three companies’ experiences responding to attacks by Russia-based ransomware group REvil. The companies varied in size and industry but their previously established incident response plans in place helped mitigate the damage from the attacks.  However, the companies reported receiving little assistance from the Federal Government, highlighting the need for change at the federal level to better combat future attacks.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of ransomware’s state of play but the three case studies on anonymous companies’ reactions to ransomware attacks provides the freshest insight. The companies ranged from a Fortune 500 company with over 100,000 employees to a technology firm with approximately 50 employees.  Each had an incident response plan and various cybersecurity measures in place that helped mitigate the effects but to different levels of success.  Offline backups were uniformly hailed as one of the best defense measures each had in place to keep their company running while addressing the attacks but they all acknowledged at the attacks’ conclusions that they needed to address gaps in their plans and security that the attacks uncovered.

One of the companies did not need the government’s help responding to the ransomware attack but the two others reported little help from the government despite seeking its assistance.  Not surprisingly, the FBI continues to focus its efforts on its core law enforcement mission by identifying the bad actors and bringing them to justice, rather than proactively protecting and assisting victim companies.

Cybersecurity Incident Reporting: Time for FBI and CISA Reforms?

The Committee made seven recommendations in its report based on its investigation, three of which called for reform in the government:

  1. The Cybersecurity and…

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Orca Security Launches Industry's First Cloud Risk Encyclopedia to Provide Ongoing Education for Cloud Security Best Practices – Galveston County Daily News

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Orca Security Launches Industry’s First Cloud Risk Encyclopedia to Provide Ongoing Education for Cloud Security Best Practices  Galveston County Daily News

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GBT is Evaluating an Implementation of Advanced NLP Algorithm, To Provide Powerful NLP Features for Its AI Healthcare Advisory System

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The Advanced NLP (Natural Language Processing) capabilities to enhance the human-to-computer interaction experience, capable of making it significantly more user friendly, mainly intuitive.

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) (“GBT”, or the “Company”), is evaluating the use of advanced NLP algorithm model to enhance its AI based healthcare advisory system human interaction experience. The Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) model introduces an efficient technology to perform a wide variety of supervised Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as classification, Q&A and summarization. Typically, most of the new deep learning NLP models are very large and include vast number of parameters. Normally the larger the NLP model, the more learning capacity it has, yet one of the main disadvantages is the huge dataset which may reduce the overall performance. The advanced NLP algorithm model is considered one of the most advanced, high performance NLP algorithms that includes a vast number of parameters, using significantly less memory, and provides high accuracy. GBT will be evaluating the T5, pre-trained model with the goal of using it in its Hippocrates healthcare advisory system, handling Q/A, text, summarization and compositional commonsense knowledge. The model allows more parallel processing than methods like Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which significantly increases data understanding and reasoning capabilities. For example, T5 model is capable of processing words together rather than on a word-by-word of a given text. As global data realm is estimated to reach zettabytes range in the near future, our deep learning computing will need powerful processing capabilities, comprehending and scrutinizing data, particularly in the huge, unstructured NLP domain. The system is designed to perform as a general health Q/A advisory system, providing first-line of health-related advice. We plan to further develop the system to include intelligent…

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