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The best TMS goes further than vehicle tracking for companies in Holland, the UK & Eire: We Review – TechHQ

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Over the last two years, pressure has increased for fleet managers, their teams of drivers and maintenance staff, the vehicles themselves, and, of course, for the businesses that employ them. To see where some of the stress points happen, we examined Verizon Connects Fleet Manager Report and look to technology as a highly effective way that operations can be improved right across the business: lowering costs, meeting customer expectations better, reducing CO2 emissions, and making overall operations more profitable.

What the report shows is that over and above the political uncertainty that continues to dominate the thoughts of fleet managers post-Brexit, its a combination of staffing issues, fuel efficiency and customer expectations that are keeping professionals awake at night.

During COVID, furlough schemes at least partially alleviated some companies immediate cost concerns, but outside of that area, respondents in the haulage and delivery sectors continue to cite general administration as their biggest time drain, with 30% stating that is their most common activity.

Its interesting to note that joined-up technology deployed in delivery operations can reduce the repetitive tasks that dominate many working lives: driver and vehicle allocation, for example, is high on the list of daily activities (19% of time) alongside scheduling vehicle maintenance (15%). Backend systems that work in conjunction with vehicle tracking technologies address the amounts of time both these activities take up.

Data-based integrated systems give business owners and operations directors in the transport sector the ability to see patterns that develop over time and therefore create the context for their future. A simple example might be a rise in the occurrences of vehicle damage on specific routes regardless of the driver. These can be caused by taxing road conditions, and therefore scheduled maintenance for the vehicles on the route can be made to a slightly faster cadence.

Recognising patterns that are thrown up by data is just one advantage to integrated technology systems in operations. Company decision-makers use the same information extrapolated from joined-up systems to see where and how SLAs might not be being met and identify why. In daily routines dominated by admin, its all too easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and simply feel that SLAs are set too high. With connected tech, overall performance can be improved across the board, giving companies significant differentiators over the competition in the market.

Note that in the preceding paragraphs, weve been at pains to state joined-up technology or integrated systems. Vehicle-tracking is the technology that comes to mind most readily in this industry at the first mention of tech, but to fully utilise its power, supporting smart platforms need much more than a real-time, map-based dashboard.

Decision-makers concerns from the survey with regards drivers health and safety included that one-third of respondents most worried about mobile phone use by drivers when travelling, with another third citing driver fatigue. Data systems capable of recognising both problems can be used not just as the starting point for disciplinary actions. Driver education and support percolates down into lower costs (less maintenance, lower fuel bills), a reduction in carbon emissions and a more engaged workforce.

Nearly as high a figure (28%) stated that collision and injury or damage to a third party was their top concern. The survey results said 77% of UK fleets were affected by theft alone, with recovery costs reaching the low five figures in some cases. Obviously, the nature of accidents is such that these concerns are valid the issue is that some problems can be avoided: tired drivers or staff anywhere in the business make mistakes. Administrative staff in the company engaged in repetitive tasks make mistakes through boredom. Both on the road and in the office, joined-up technology helps alleviate both problems.

Resistance to fleet management technology often comes from ambiguities and misconceptions about the purpose of the tech. The deployment of systems needs to be done in consultation with end-users (drivers, maintenance technicians and back-office alike) therefore. While TMSs are proven to lower theft and fraud, the integrated platforms of today can help tell the story in ways that transform every part of the business in positive ways.

To learn more about Verizon Connects platforms and solutions for businesses of all sizes, you can request a free free demo of the technology today.

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Talent Management Systems (TMS) Market 2021- Competitive Insights, Industry Size and Forecast Report UNLV The Rebel Yell – UNLV The Rebel Yell

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DUBLIN, August 31, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Transportation Management System (2021-2026) by Component, Transportation Mode, Deployment, Organisation Type, End-user, Geography, Competitive Analysis and the Impact of Covid-19 with Ansoff Analysis" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Transportation Management Systems Market is estimated to be USD 8.8 Bn in 2021 and is expected to reach USD 21 Bn by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 19%.

The major driver for the Transportation Management System market is technological advancements in the transportation and logistics industry. The majority of the companies in the world are adopting digital technologies for creating unmatched opportunities for operational planning and a richer client experience.

Advanced technologies like Internet of things, Artificial intelligence, and big data analytics are driving the transportation management system. It also allows for smarter and efficient transport and logistics operations. Another major driver is exponential growth in the e-commerce industry, which improves the growth of the market.

However, the shortage of experienced professionals and higher implementation and maintenance costs hamper the market from growing during the forecast period.

Segments Covered

Based on Transportation Mode, the Global Transportation Management System is segmented into Roadways, Railways, Airways, and Maritime. The Roadways segment is expected to grow during the forecast period. It is the most prevalent mode of transport. Roadway mode is a relatively cheaper and flexible mode, making it possible to load and unload anywhere.

Based on Deployment Type, the Cloud segment holds the maximum share in TMS. The emergence of cloud-based technologies is anticipated to trigger the replacement of aging conventional TMS solutions. The recent development in software such as machine learning and predictive analytics, 3-D printing anticipate the growth and opportunities for the key players in the transportation management system market.

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Based on Organisation Type, the Large Enterprise holds the maximum share in the market. The TMS offers a centralized system with several features like carrier tracking, order management, billing and accounts settlement, etc. Large enterprises invest heavily in TMS to increase their overall productivity and efficiency. Also, advanced technologies and innovative solutions in TMS helps the enterprises to grow rapidly.

Based on End User, the Manufacturing segment holds the largest share in the market. Most of the manufacturing companies are adopting transportation solutions for cost reduction. TMS helps in tracking and managing inventory, route optimization, and minimizing shipment/freight costs. It also reduces the operational cost. It increases visibility and control over the transportation chain and unscheduled downtime and improves product performance.

Based on Region, North America is expected to hold the largest market share in the market. This is because of the adoption of advanced technologies and cloud computing. They have an advanced IT infrastructure, which reduces the operational expenditure through various advancement in technologies.

Asia-Pacific is also expected to witness a high growth rate. It is mainly due to the increasing international trade, increasing penetration of smartphone use coupled with increasing disposable income. These factors propel the growth of eCommerce in these regions. Therefore, proper TMS will be required to cater to a broad range of customers.

Market Dynamics

Drivers

Technological Advancements in the Transportation and Logistics Industry

Exponential Growth in The E-Commerce Industry

Enhanced Efficiency in the Process Upon TMS Solutions

Restraints

Opportunities

Autonomous and Connected Vehicles to Transform the Transportation and Logistics Industry

Increasing Adoption of Cloud-Based Technology and Industry 4.0

Growing Digitalization in Emerging Economies

Increasing Emphasis on Customer Service

Challenges

Company Profiles

Some of the companies covered in this report are

Oracle

SAP

Manhattan Associates

C.H. Robinson

Trimble

Blujay Solutions

Mercurygate International

Blue Yonder

Transplace

Descartes Systems Group

E2OPEN

Alpega Group

3GTMS

3T Logistics & Technology Group

Globaltranz

Inmotion Global

Vtradex

MP Objects

Logistically

One Network Enterprises

Elemica

Tailwind Transportation Software

Intellitrans

Allotrac

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Jimmie Johnson on IndyCar oval test in Texas: ‘My first step towards the Indy 500’ – IndyStar

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Whether simply ironic or a sly jab by his newfound teammates and longtime friends, the tunes seeping through the BMW that Scott Dixon drovearound Texas Motor Speedway's tri-oval for a recon run just after 6 a.m. were all too coincidental and applicable for th45-year-old in the passenger seat.

'A change will do you good,'sang Sheryl Crow through the car's speakers. Jimmie Johnson was about to find out whether the country music legend was right.

On the day he'd make his open-wheel oval driving debut, the IndyCar rookie showed up in No Limits, Texas with a look that harkened back to his early stock car days: a clean-shaven smile that just might have been able to pass for the 26-year-old who finished sixth in his trip to the track in a NASCAR Cup series stock car back in 2002.

That day nearly two decades ago, Johnson was on the cusp of his first major stock car victory of what would be anillustrious career. Monday, all the driver of the No. 48 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda was looking for was comfort and confirmation that open-wheel oval racing future would be a proper step to one day pursue.

Not only from his words, but the emotion behind them, it's clear the first box has been checked after a six-plus-hour session with the 1.44-mile tri-oval all to himself -- after teammate Dixon turned a few laps to assure the CGR team the car was properly tuned for a revealing test day.

"The oval experience has been awesome today," Johnson said. "I learned a lot and was able to get up to speed and put up some really fast lap times. Being at a track that I've raced at in the past, one, I think was helpful, and two, the laps I ran today helped me piece together similarities between IndyCar and NASCAR, and there certainly were some differences I was able to grasp today as well.

"I needed to pretend as if I've never been here before, and then after a lot of laps, I could pull a few small things from my NASCAR days and apply them to the IndyCar. Ironically, the way you use the banking to help support the race car is much more critical in an Indy car than a Cup car, and the line is more forgiving in the Cup car as a result."

That notion has been the theme of Johnson's introduction to IndyCar, which began last July with a one-day private test with CGR on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. From the start, months before he and team officials announced a two-year deal to drive the road and street courses in the No. 48, Johnson noted just how stark the contrast was between even the basics of driving a stock car and open-wheel machine.

As he continued to press on through additional offseason testing with Ganassi, and even running lower formula carsalongside 15-year-olds to provide extra open-wheel seat time, Johnson's mantra was that 2021 would be about 'unlearning' his stock car ways.

Oval racing, he said for several months, was to be put on the backburner while he adjusted to the feel of the car, and his wife, Chani, came to terms with the safety levels of a open-wheel cockpit.

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As expected though, Johnson's curiosity continued to grow. For the first time, he watched up-close-and-personal at the May 30 Indianapolis 500 as part of the NBC Sports crew. Not only was stepping out of the race car and handing it over to his oval-only teammate Tony Kanaan delivering some major 'fear of missing out' vibes, but Johnson's competitive drive started to kick in. As one of the most decorated racecar drivers of any discipline, he wondered what giving the Greatest Spectacle in Racing a try might be like.

But first, needed to get the taste of just being on an oval -- any oval, really -- to get the sense of what he'd be stepping into. Though not nearly an identical track to IMS in oval racing parlance, Johnson and Ganassi officials had eyed TMS as the location of his first step. Only recently did a date open, allowing the team to switch gears to from a previously-planned test dateat Homestead-Miami Speedway, where IndyCar hasn't raced in more than a decade.

Instead, Johnson was able to tackle a track where Dixon has won four of the last eight IndyCar races, with the trio of Ganassi driving coaches (and four-time series champ driver) Dario Franchitti, Kanaan and Dixon on-hand. With such a test day complete, it's now up to IndyCar to parse through the test results and potentially give Johnson the green light to run a likely series tire test on the IMS oval after the completion of the 2021 season.

From there, Johnson could run through the Indy 500 Rookie Orientation Program, much like Team Penske rookie Scott McLaughlin did last fall, in order to be additional steps ahead come next May, should Johnson, Ganassi and company decide to pursue a 2022 Indy 500 run.

"Today, really, is my first step towards the Indy 500 and potentially racing on ovals," he said. "I feel like I need to work through things that will make me comfortable with the car on-track, and more sessions on-track are needed before I can make a decision. And there's certainly more conversations with my family and Chip and our sponsors. There's a lot of moving pieces to this.

"I (need) a day or two to digest this and what the next steps might be and, do we look to go to another oval and try to get more experience working towards a race someday down the road?"

In the moment though, you could see through the wonder in his eyes andthe almost certain smile his helmet hid, along with the tone in his attempted whisper, just how much Johnson enjoyed this.

After one of his stints on-track at TMS onMonday, Johnson could be seen via a video his team recordedgiving Franchitti a double-fist pump, followed closely by a bear hug.

"Really good job. Did you have fun?" Franchitti can be heard asking Johnson.

"Oh, I had a blast, as you know," Johnson replied.

"Well you know, I just wanted to be sure. Really good job today."

There's both pride in his understudy, as well as thorough understanding in the giant task Johnson's undergone in Franchitti's voice -- perhaps related to the single season the Scotsman spent in stock car racing with Ganassi in 2008 between his two IndyCar stints.

"(Johnson's Monday oval test) would be like a person that plays cricket for the English team. That's got a bat and a ball, and going to play baseball. That's got a bat and a ball, but everything's different," Franchitti said. "I think that's the difference between a stock car and an Indy car. Everything you learn on the way up and what you learn when you're at the top in either of those fields doesn't prepare you in any way to do the other.

"In fact, if hurts you, so it's a challenging thing Jimmie is doing. But he's doing very well so far."

Email IndyStar motor sports reporter Nathan Brown atnlbrown@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter:@By_NathanBrown.

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Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson continues to prep for his first Indy 500. (Photo courtesy of Texas Motor Speedway.

By John Sturbin | Senior WriterRacinToday.com

Jimmie Johnson is one step closer to answering the siren call of the Indianapolis 500.

Johnson successfully completed his first NTT IndyCar Series test on an oval Monday at Texas Motor Speedway, logging several laps in the 214-mph bracket around the high-banked/1.5-mile oval where he has posted a track-record seven NASCAR Cup Series victories.

An open-wheel rookie this season, Johnson has made nine INDYCAR starts on the series road-and-street circuits with Chip Ganassi Racing. Mondays seven-hour test in Fort Worth began with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup call for a crack-of-dawn session (6 a.m., CDT) in a relatively cool 75 degrees. The test finished shortly after 1 p.m. with the heat index reading nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Teammate Scott Dixon, the six-time/reigning IndyCar Series champion and record five-time winner at TMS, drove the initial setup laps in the No. 48 Honda. But Johnson indicated he exited the cockpit ready for more left-turns-only.

I would even say by the end of the day I was more in-tune with the car than Ive been on a road or street-course so far, Johnson said during a Zoom conference with national media Tuesday morning. The second half of the test session was very comfortable for me and felt much more like home.

Understandable, given that Johnson made 35 Cup starts at The Great American Speedway in Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets during his run to a record-tying seven NASCAR championships.

Its been really nice to be on a familiar track, Johnson said from Phoenix, prior to a scheduled sponsor appearance before The American Legion National Convention. I know where I am, I know what to do, I know the line around the place and even down to simple things like knowing where the hotel was last night or knowing how to drive into the tunnel and get into the infield. Theres been some small wins that are nice to have.

But thats where the familiarity ended. Among the differences between a Cup and Indy car, Johnson noted, was an approximate 25 mph increase in speed in a cockpit with relatively limited visibility and more demanding G-forces.

The car drives way different, Johnson said. Its much more responsive so I found the majority of the day just trying to acclimate to this new environment, one thats much faster and certainly a bit more sensitive to the inputs that the driver gives to the car.

In NASCAR, you go fast by being on the ragged edge and having the car sideways. Im quickly learning and understanding that in an Indy car you cant drive it and you dont set the car up to drive it to (that edge). Sure, you end up there in some moments, but its not where you live. Thats been a pretty big eye-opener for me _ on road, street and then just this one oval test that Ive done.

Being on-track and really being able to understand, I guess, more specifically to the car, how much you need to sense through the weight of the steering wheel. Im used to being sideways in a Cup car and people can seethe car is loose. I have oversteer, I need to work on the car. If youre at that point in an Indy car, its all over, and youre crashing.

So, that really kind of changed my mindset and the weight of the steering wheel _ thats the part that really talks to you about the grip-level of the car. The lighter the wheel, nine times out of 10, the more oversteer you have in the car and that means pit. Dont wait until it slides. Youre probably not going to catch it; come in and lets work on it.

Dixon won the series first oval-track race of 2021 at TMS on May 1 to break out of a tie with former Team Penske star Helio Castroneves. Dixon was joined in a mentors role Monday by teammate Tony Kanaan _ the 2004 series champion and 2004 TMS race-winner who drove the No. 48 on the schedules four oval-track events this season _ and Dario Franchitti, a four-time series champion, three-time Indy 500 winner and 2011 TMS race-winner.

Johnson began the day with a conservative setup as he worked through each set of tires. By the third set, Johnson said his comfort level allowed him to begin challenging himself and offer input on chassis changes during stops for fresh rubber.

I was able to feel the car, speak the language, work through adjustments in the car; I knew what to talk to Eric (Cowdin, veteran engineer) about, Johnson said. I knew where the spring-split worked _ I guess they call it using the weight-jacker button, which was cross-weight wedge is what we call it in NASCAR _ just using the tools and the way you make a car go was so much more familiar. I knew what I was feeling, and I could be of help.

To know that I could come here and test and experience it as a driver was important to me. Its one thing by myself. I feel like I can control my environment, and Im very thankful that Im able to go out and do it. The way INDYCAR has advanced their safety and certainly what the tracks have done to increase the safety, my concerns are much less. Now that my concerns are at a certain point, now its time to get in the car and see what my point of view is from there.

TMS has played host to INDYCAR since the tracks inaugural season of 1997, when its June night race was part of Tony Georges fledgling/all-oval Indy Racing League. TMS kicked-off the series 2021 oval-track schedule with a doubleheader weekend May 1-2, billed as a prelude to the 105th Indy 500 on May 30. Dixon won the opener while Pato OWard of Arrow McLaren SP prevailed in Race 2.

Johnson said in addition to TMS, the Ganassi organization considered testing him on the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway _ a track not currently on the schedule. Even with the early start to the day, TMS offered the challenges of a hot, slick track with high tire degradation.

As I got closer to the test date, it would be a proper test, Johnson said. Worst-case scenario, worst-case conditions.

Now looking back at having (TMS) as my first oval test, since Ive had so many reps there in a stock car, it really, really turned out to be the right placethe perfect storm for me to evaluate an oval in an Indy car.

Johnsons next oval test will be on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October, where he is expected to be joined by fellow-rookie and Formula One veteran Romain Grosjean of Dale Coyne Racing with RWR. Johnson said a decision on competing in the 106th Indy 500 in May 2022 is definitely a step-closer, although that would not necessarily include any other oval on the schedule.

I think that there are more conversations to be had with family, team and sponsors (and) at least another test session ahead of me before I can really make a decision, said Johnson, who will turn 46 on Sept. 17. But driving the car yesterday only piqued my interest more.

While Johnson has been running at the finish of seven of the nine series races hes started, his stats have been modest. His best start was in the season-opener, 21st, at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., where he finished 19th. Johnson also finished 19th in his most recent start last month at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the IMS Road-Course. But his in-race TV advertisements for Carvana have easily out-paced any established series regular.

Im having such a good time, and every rep I get in the car, Im only going to get better, Johnson said. My intent is to stick around (INDYCAR) as long as I possibly can.

Johnsons next series start will be in the Grand Prix of Portland at Portland (Ore.) International Raceway on Sept. 12, the first of three consecutive road/street-course events to close the INDYCAR season. Johnson has tested at Portland and at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in California, site of the second race in the sequence on Sept. 19.

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UPDATED 2021 NTT INDYCAR SERIES SCHEDULE/RACE WINNER

Sunday, April 18 _ Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Ala. (Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing)

Sunday, April 25 _Streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. (Colton Herta, Andretti Autosport)

Saturday, May 1 _ Texas Motor Speedway Race 1, Fort Worth (Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing)

Sunday, May 2 _ Texas Motor Speedway Race 2, Fort Worth (Pato OWard, Arrow McLaren SP)

Saturday, May 15 _ Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road-Course (Rinus VeeKay, Ed Carpenter Racing)

Sunday, May 30 _ The 105th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race (Helio Castroneves, Meyer Shank Racing)

Saturday, June 12 _ The Raceway at Belle Isle Park Race 1, Detroit (Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing)

Sunday, June 13 _ The Raceway at Belle Isle Park Race 2, Detroit (Pato OWard, Arrow McLaren SP)

Sunday, June 20 _ Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wis. (Alex Palou, Chip Ganassi Racing)

Sunday, July 4 _ Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio (Josef Newgarden, Team Penske)

Sunday, Aug. 8 _ Streets of Nashville, Tenn. (Marcus Ericsson, Chip Ganassi Racing)

Saturday, Aug. 14 _ Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road-Course (Will Power, Team Penske)

Saturday, Aug. 21 _ World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, Madison, Ill. (Josef Newgarden, Team Penske)

Sunday, Sept. 12 _ Portland (Ore.) International Raceway (NBC)

Sunday, Sept. 19 _ WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, Calif. (NBC)

Sunday, Sept. 26 _ Streets of Long Beach, Calif. (NBCSN)

(Editors Note:John Sturbin is a Texas-based journalist specializing in motorsports. During a near 30-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he won the Bloys Britt Award for top motorsports story of the year (1991) as judged by The Associated Press; received the National Hot Rod Associations Media Award (1997) and several in-house Star-Telegram honors. He also was the inaugural recipient of the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame Media Award (2010). His list of freelance clients has included Texas Motor Speedway, the Dallas Morning News, New York Newsday, NASCAR Wire Service and Ford Racing).

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Prostate Cancer Treatment Device Market Professional Survey And Forecast To 2027 Top key players-SonaCare Medical LLC, EDAP TMS SA UNLV The Rebel…

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Theres a new COSO preacher in town. Are they a threat or an enabler of a peaceful and safe community? Should we embrace them and listen to their advice?

COSO's "Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud Computing" is an interesting document. I am not a fan, but if you are in IT or responsible for addressing IT-related risk, you might find it of some interest.

It starts reasonably well: "Leveraging cloud computing in some industries may have been a strategic advantage at one point. What the pandemic brought to light was the need for more remote and flexible work environments and the IT infrastructure to support the organization in that effort. Utilizing cloud computing has become an essential element to compete in the marketplace.

"The speed at which cloud computing can be procured and implemented is one of its many valuable traits. However, facing the inertia of accelerated access to cloud based capabilities, some organizations may not have had the capacity to implement appropriate controls designed to mitigate the risks in their cloud environments."

Lets acknowledge, though, that cloud computing is not new. It has been with us for many years.

I am (just) old enough to remember some of the first database systems. I was a manager with a major public accounting firm, responsible for the technical IT audit approach, when I heard Tom Gilb address the British Computer Society.

Tom shared his experiences helping a major Swedish car company implement an integrated set of applications using one of the first database management systems from IBM on their newest and most powerful mainframes. He told us he was often asked about the differences in deploying database vs. traditional systems. His answer was: Its just another file structure.

In many ways, cloud is similarly a simple evolution rather than a gigantic leap. Many of the issues related to managing a traditional outsourced computing system continue in a cloud environment. There are a few more challenges, but not so many that IMHO justify a publication from COSO specifically on cloud computing.

COSO would have done better if they had simply shared their thoughts on integrating IT-related risk into enterprise risk and performance (or success) management. (Actually, they would have done better to read and build on my book, "Making Business Sense of Technology Risk").

They get this right: "An organizations management is responsible for managing the risk to the organization. Management must incorporate the board and key stakeholders into the ERM program so that risk management is integrated with the organizations strategy and business objectives. Effective ERM involves multiple departments and functions; it should be integrated into the strategy of the organization and embedded into its culture. Successful ERM goes beyond internal controls to address governance, culture, strategy, and performance. Effective cloud computing and cloud enterprise risk management is integrated within the organization to support the organizations strategy and objectives, align with the culture, and enhance value."

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The rest of the document takes each of the five components of the COSO ERM Framework and explains how they relate to cloud computing, with suggestions on how each of the related principles might be addressed.

But, and it is a huge but, the authors start with "Governance and Culture." Now I agree that is an important topic, but you dont establish governance structures and processes before you understand the risks and related processes.

They are starting with the COSO model and plugging cloud into it, rather than understanding what risks (both positive and negative) flow from the use of cloud and only then determining what governance-related processes and structures are needed.

So, lets leave COSO behind and take a far simpler approach:

One concern with starting with a focus on cloud, as this COSO guidance does, is you might end up dedicating scarce resources to a source of minimal risk to the enterprise.

There is, as always, more to be said. The COSO document can be of value by considering all of its detailed suggestions as food for thought, but I cannot recommend adopting it as a framework.

I welcome your thoughts.

Norman Marks, CPA, CRMA is an evangelist for better run business, focusing on corporate governance, risk management, internal audit, enterprise performance, and the value of information. He is also a mentor to individuals and organizations around the world, the author of World-Class Risk Management and publishes regularly on his own blog.

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Cloud Security Alliance Federal Summit 2021 Live Event to Focus on Building Trust and Security in the New Normal – Business Wire

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the worlds leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications, and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today announced that it will host its 8th annual Federal Summit on Oct. 28 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center (Washington, D.C.). With its theme of Reset Normal: Building Trust & Security, the Summit will address the ways in which both government and industry have adapted and collaborated to reset normal and build trust and security into people, processes, and technology.

Among the topics to be discussed will be the impact of the Presidents recent Executive Order on Improving the Nations Cybersecurity, as well as the ways in which the security community can help effect positive change within the federal community.

The Presidents executive order and subsequent national security memo articulate major challenges in building out our cybersecurity workforce, implementing Zero Trust strategies, attaining software assurance, and other objectives inside the federal government and within critical infrastructure sectors. CSA is committed to comprehensive collaboration between our community and federal stakeholders to make real progress in our nations cybersecurity capabilities using events like our Federal Summit, said Jim Reavis, co-founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance.

This informative, in-person event will draw information security professionals from civilian and defense agencies, as well as innovators in cloud security, who will share case studies, lessons learned, and new technologies that promote secure implementation of cloud computing to support agency missions. A world-class program of speakers and panelists will provide perspectives on the Federal cloud computing strategy, civilian, and defense agency cloud security standards, and real-world implementation experience with state-of-the-art cloud security architectures.

This years event is hosted by the Cloud Security Alliance, the CSA DC chapter, and ISACAs Greater Washington D.C. Chapter.

Register today for this FREE event. Members of the media and analyst community interested in attending the event should contact Kari Walker for more information, to receive press credentials, and to schedule interviews with CSA leadership and conference speakers.

About Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the worlds leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, training, certification, events, and products. CSA's activities, knowledge, and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud from providers and customers to governments, entrepreneurs, and the assurance industry and provide a forum through which different parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. For further information, visit us at http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

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Biologists Just Got Closer to The DNA Secrets That Stop Species From Interbreeding – ScienceAlert

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We think of DNA as the vitally important molecules that carry genetic instructions for most living things, including ourselves. But not all DNA actually codes proteins; now, we're finding more and more functions involving the non-coding DNA scientists used to think of as 'junk'.

A new study suggests thatsatellite DNA a type of non-coding DNA arranged in long, repetitive, apparently nonsensical strings of genetic material may be the reason why different species can't successfully breed with each other.

It appears that satellite DNA plays an essential role in keeping all of a cell's individual chromosomes together in a single nucleus, through the work of cellular proteins.

According to biologists Madhav Jagannathan and Yukiko Yamashita who authored the new study, that important role is managed differently in each species, leading to genetic incompatibility. The clash of the different strategies between species may be what causes chromosomes to scatter outside of the nucleus, at least in part, preventing reproduction.

"We propose a unifying framework that explains how the widely observed satellite DNA divergence between closely related species can cause reproductive isolation," they write intheir paper.

This "satellite DNA divergence" has been well established in previous research, leading to suspicions about its role in speciation. In the case of the chimpanzee genome and the human genome, for example, the protein-coding DNA is almost identical, while the 'junk' DNA is almost entirely different.

In this new study, experimenting on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the researchers noticed that deleting agene which produces a protein called Prod which binds to a specific bit of satellite DNA caused the flies to die, as their chromosomes scattered outside the cell nucleus.However, that crucial bit of satellite DNA is missing altogether in the flies' nearest relatives, which survive just fine without it.

That suggests these important non-coding sequences of DNA material have evolved differently between species. To take a closer look, the team examined hybrid offspring bred from a D. melanogaster female and a male from the closely related D. simulans species.

Flies bred in this way usually die very quickly or end up sterile. In this case, an examination of the tissue of the hybrid offspring confirmed what the researchers had suspected that the chromosomes (the DNA packages necessary for reproduction) were being disrupted here as well.

"When we looked at those hybrid tissues, it was very clear that their phenotype was exactly the same as if you had disrupted the satellite DNA-mediated chromosomal organization of a pure species," says Yamashita, who works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

"The chromosomes were scattered, and not encapsulated in a single nucleus."

Digging even further, the researchers produced healthy hybrid flies by removing the genes known to damage hybrid offspring (called 'hybrid incompatibility genes') from their parent flies.These incompatibility genes are known to localize to satellite DNA in the pure species.

Satellite DNA mutates fairly regularly, and the researchers think that the proteins that bind to satellite DNA to keep chromosomes together have to evolve to keep up. This then gives each species its own different strategy when it comes to satellite DNA operations.

Next, the team wants to try and design a protein that successfully binds across the satellite DNA of two species, keeping the chromosomes where they should be. That could enable viable offspring between those species, but it will take years to realize.

"Our study lays the foundation for understanding hybrid incompatibility at a cellular level in Drosophila as well as other eukaryotes," write the researchers.

The research has been published in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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DHS S&T Using DNA to Search for the True Origins of Imported Honey | Hstoday – HSToday

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Have you ever wondered where the honey you add to your morning tea and drizzle on your desserts or oatmeal comes from (besides bees)? The easy answer would be to check the label, which typically offers the country of origin along with all those wonderful nutritional benefits. Unfortunately, as the Department of Homeland SecuritysScience and Technology Directorate(S&T) knows all too well, sometimes labels can be misleading, especially when it comes to honey imported into the U.S.

Honey imports have nearly doubled in the last decadefrom 251 million pounds in 2010 to 416 million pounds in 2019which is great news for consumers who now have more access to some of the sweetest stuff on earth. However, this tremendous growth in demand also has a dark side that many might not know aboutadulteration and mislabeling of honey to hide its true origin have become a global issue.

What does this mean for shoppers and our economy? Well, illicit importers, who are economically motivated to evade tariffs or sanctions, have made it a practice to affix fake labels onto jars, indicating the honey is from a different country of origin or disguising cheaper honey as sought-after expensive types. Some illicit actors even dilute honey with ingredients like syrups and sugar. New Zealand manuka honey, for example, commands a high price on the market, up to 100 times higher than other honey types, as it is very in-demand for its putative health benefits. It is also one of the most adulterated types of honey. In a recent lawsuit, U.S. beekeepers claimed adulterated honey from Asia caused prices to plummet and forced them into financial ruin.

Adulterated honey is a tremendous problem for the U.S. honey industry, because it drives the market price down, and U.S. producers cant compete with the lower market value of imported honey, said Stephen Cassata, a senior science officer and acting lab director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) INTERDICT Science Center. Dealing with this issue is a whole-of-government approach, and we are currently collaborating with other federal agencies (including the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture) on joint operations targeting honey enforcement.

CBP is tasked with enforcing hundreds of U.S. trade laws, including the proper classification of goods under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, and assessing applicable tariffs to ensure that importers pay the appropriate duties on entered goods. To help CBP determine the true sources of honey, S&T enlisted the expertise of theBorders, Trade, and Immigration Institute Center of Excellence(BTI), led by the University of Houston, for a project calledHoney DNA. S&T invested in cutting-edge forensic science that can improve the speed and efficiency in verifying the country of origin of commercially available honey and its path to the supermarket shelvesspecifically, S&T has been looking at how the unique makeups of products coming to the U.S. match how they are represented on the packaging.

This project developed a means to identify honey countries of origin using the DNA in pollen and DNA dissolved in filtered honey, said BTIexecutive director Kurt Berens.

Honey is filtered for a variety of reasons, including the attempt to hide its source plant by making plant identification by pollen very challenging.

BTIs testing method could potentially provide another capability for CBP to determine country or region of origin for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty enforcement, said CBPdeputy director Patricia Hawes. It complements testing capabilities we already employ to determine country of origin of honey.

BTI conducts research to enhance U.S. border security, facilitate legitimate trade and travel, and ensure immigration system integrity, and for several years this S&T Center of Excellence has been working on detecting the source country of honey by identifying the plant species via DNA from pollen. The Honey DNA project started in early 2020.

Thesize of the availabledatabase of knownDNA sequences from particular plants has exploded recently, making it more likely that any DNA sequence we find can be associated with a particular plant species or small group of plants, said BTI Honey DNA principal investigator Dr. Richard Willson, who is also Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Over the past 15 to 20 years, the cost of DNA sequencing hascollapsed by10,000-fold, making DNA-sequencing-based technologies much more attractive for a wide variety of applications.

Through the Honey DNA project, BTI was able to leverage these technologies to establish techniques that will help mitigate fraud and provide authentic and safe food for consumers. BTI scientists developed methods for sequencing DNA not only from whole pollen grains in unfiltered honey but also from the small amounts of DNA leaked from broken pollen grains in filtered honey.

To study the true origin of honey, BTI scientists collected samples from a variety of places, including directly from apiaries in multiple countries, from small specialty providers and farmers markets, from friends traveling overseas, and even from online specialty stores during the pandemic when travel wasnt possible.

We analyzed 300 honey samples from which we assembled country-specific plant DNA sequences, said Willson. We also successfully isolated soluble trace DNA from pollen-free, ultra-filtered honey and sequenced it.

To extract DNA from pollen, Willson and his team diluted small samples of honey with water, centrifuged them to help the pollen sink to the bottom of the test tubes, and extracted the DNA. To isolate trace DNA from filtered honey, the BTI scientists again diluted a small sample of pollen-free honey with water, and then extracted and purified the DNA. The extracted DNA was then amplified and sequenced. These findings were recently released in a report. (Read the final report,PDF, 83pgs., 3.71 MB).

DNA sequencing is performed to find the sequence in which the building blocks of DNA, the nucleotides, are arranged in a given DNA strand, which can help identify a plant species.

When the BTI scientists tested the expensive New Zealand manuka honey, which is derived from the manuka plant, they found that many jar labels claiming to contain manuka honey were not accurate.

The BTI team believes that the Honey DNA tracing methods could find broad applications in other types of forensic cases, including identifying the species of other natural products, and even tracing the origins of imported goods and narcotics. Also, the DNA sequences obtained from this project will enrich the public DNA database and help link occurrences of source plants across the world for a more precise identification of honey origin, said Willson.

This new technology could potentially be one of the tools in CBPs toolbox to intercept illegal imports, said Hawes. We are constantly looking at new ways to do our mission.

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