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A day after the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested two persons for allegedly converting more than a thousand people to Islam, the state government on Tuesday directed the investigating agency and the police to trace other people involved in such activities and invoke the stringent provisions of National Security Act (NSA) and Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act against them.

The government also directed the police to probe the financial transactions of the accused and confiscate their properties.

On Monday, the ATS arrested Mufti Kazi Jahageer Kasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam and accused them and their associated of running an organisation, Islamic Dawah Center (IDC), which had allegedly been carrying out large-scale conversion. Umar Gautam had reportedly converted to Islam in the 1980s.

The arrested persons were produced before a local court in Lucknow on Tuesday.

The court has sent the accused to seven-day police custody. We are yet to trace the associates of those arrested, said Additional Director General, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar.

He added that the arrested persons also used to target women as well as unemployed, poor and physically challenged people. The police will look into invoking the Gangster Act and NSA against the accused, Kumar said.

Earlier in the day, the government directed the police to trace those who allegedly force people to convert into other religions, operating in the state and take strict action against them as they are ruining the heterogeneous structure of society.

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Pakistan National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has ruled out the possibility of a meeting with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on the margins of a meeting of top security officials of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) states in Tajikistan this week.

Doval and Yusuf are set to attend the in-person meeting of the secretaries of the security council of the eight SCO member states in Dushanbe during June 22-23, and this had triggered speculation about a meeting between the two officials against the backdrop of back-channel contacts between India and Pakistan.

There is absolutely no possibility of any bilateral meeting with Indian counterpart at SCO, Yusuf was quoted as saying by Pakistans Dawn newspaper.

At the last virtual meeting of NSAs of SCO member states in September 2020, Doval walked out after Yusuf projected a map that inaccurately depicted the borders of the two countries and included several Indian regions within Pakistan. At the time, Yusuf was special adviser to Pakistans prime minister on national security. He was formally appointed the NSA earlier this year.

Yusuf said he would meet his counterparts from Russia, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Dushanbe.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been in the same country at the same time twice in recent months, including the Heart of Asia conference on Afghanistan in Dushanbe in March, but did not hold a bilateral meeting. In April, Jaishankar and Qureshi had visited the United Arab Emirates at the same time.

Following a series of back-channel contacts between Indian and Pakistani security officials, the two countries recommitted themselves to the 2003 ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in February. The truce has largely held, helping to ease bilateral tensions, though recent reports have suggested the back-channel contacts have stalled.

The SCO meet in Dushanbe will conclude a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modis planned meeting with political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir on June 24 the first such gathering since the government scrapped the regions special status in August 2019.

Pakistan has also issued several strong statements in recent weeks about what it claims were the Indian governments plans to carry out more changes in Jammu and Kashmir. India has rejected these statements, noting that Kashmir is an integral part of the country and Pakistans comments amounted to interference in internal affairs.

There was no official word on the possibility of a meeting between the Indian and Chinese NSAs at Dushanbe. The military standoff between the two countries at the Line of Actual Control has continued for more than a year despite several rounds of military and diplomatic talks.

The meeting of the NSAs of SCO states is expected to focus on the rapidly evolving security situation in Afghanistan ahead of the drawdown of US forces and cooperation under the Regional Anti-Terror Structure (RATS). Besides India, Pakistan and China, SCO includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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Nichols Martin June 18, 2021News, Technology

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a document to help organizations protect call processing systems from cyber threats. The report, titled Deploying Secure Unified Communications/Voice and Video over IP Systems, provides guidance on the security of Voice and Video over Internet Protocol (VVoIP) and Unified Communications (UC) systems.

Workplaces use VVoIP and UC systems to facilitate messaging, video conferencing and voice communications. NSA advises organizations to divide networks, limit device access, apply security patches as needed, encrypt media traffic and assess the security of devices before linking with networks.

The report also informs readers about the risks that may threaten VVoIP and UC systems if security measures are not applied. NSA also produced a smaller cybersecurity information sheet to complement the report and teach organizations steps to secure VVoIP and UC systems.

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NSA Publishes Report to Boost Security of Call Processing Systems - ExecutiveGov

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security meeting with top officials of Jammu and Kashmir in Delhi and reviewed development projects in the Union Territory.

Those who attended the meeting included National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Intelligence Bureau Director Arvind Kumar, R&AW chief Samant Kumar Goel, CRPF Director General Kuldeep Singh and J&K DGP Dilbagh Singh.

During the meeting, Amit Shah said, "All-round development and welfare of people of Jammu and Kashmir are the top priority of the Modi government."

Amit Shah congratulated the Lieutenant Governor of J&K, Manoj Sinha, and his team for the vaccination drive having reached 76% of the target in Jammu and Kashmir and 100% in the four districts of the Union Territory.

The home minister told officials that despite the situation being under control, the security forces should not let their guards down. Amit Shah said that the forces should neutralise terrorists and look to normalise the situation.

Sources said that there was a broad agreement that though Pakistani troops were honouring the ceasefire agreement at the J&K borders, this could possibly only be temporary. An official privy to the presentation said, "Though the exact number of foreign terrorists neutralised or present wasn't discussed, there was by large an understanding that this peacetime should be used to neutralise terrorists operating in the valley."

Sources also said this was purely a security review meeting, with no mention of the upcoming Amarnath Yatra or the assembly election which could be slated later this year. After the meeting , LG Manoj Singh told mediapersons that a call on the Amarnath Yatra could be taken by Saturday. The 56-day annual pilgrimage is expected to begin on June 28 and culminate on August 22.

An official said, "It was a routine security review meeting."

Friday's was the second review meet carried out by the home minister within a month.

Highly placed sources told India Today that security forces achieved a high-level target by neutralising top terrorists by 2020, with challenges coming in from new groups like The Resistance Front (TRF) and People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), both fronts for Pakistan backed terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The above-mentioned sources said that in the meeting, DGP mentioned how the challenge in the current year was to counter terror and Covid-19 pandemic simultaneously by its personnel. Political killing, terror financing and containing newer strategies of Pakistan based terror groups were discussed in the meeting, sources said, adding, "Though infiltration has declined, there is activity seen at launch pads. There has been extensive use of drones and discovery of tunnels in the Jammu region."

Following the meeting, a top officer in the security grid told India Today "Owing to FATF or other compulsions, Pakistan-backed terror groups have been lying low. Of 200 total terrorists, 105 foreign terrorists in J&K, most have been lying low, and have gone into hiding. While there is information on local terrorists, better intelligence is needed on foreign terrorists."

The Union Home Minister also asked authorities to ensure that the farmers of J&K get the benefits of the PM Kisan Yojana, Kisan Credit Card and other farmer-friendly schemes. He also asked the officials to ensure the benefits of the industrial policy reach the small-scale industries.

"Arrangements should be made for the training of new Panchayat members and they should be made to visit the most developed Panchayats across the country," added Amit Shah.

He also asked officials to ensure refugees get the benefits of the refugee package as soon as possible. Promoting agriculture and setting up agro-based industries in UT were also key points of the meeting.

Manoj Sinha also met Amit Shah at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in Delhi.

On Thursday, Manoj Sinha chaired a high-level meeting in Jammu and Kashmir, in which the District Capex Budget of 2021-22 was set at ? 12,600.58 crore for the equitable development of the Union Territory. The approved budget is more than double the previous year's budget of ? 5,134.40 crore.

During the meeting, the Lt Governor observed that the community need-based plan has been prepared through Public/ PRI's participation, which focuses on a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people, employment opportunities to the locals, ensuring better roads, drinking water, electricity, tourism potential, empowering youth and determining other priorities as per the public demand.

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Noida administration has initiated National Security Act (NSA) proceedings against a man accused of black marketing essential Covid medicines. According to Noida Police, accused Rachit Ghai was caught in April for selling fake remdesivir injections.

The medicine was being sold to families in desperate need since it had been prescribed as a life saving drug by hospitals. The arrest was made by the Noida Crime Branch and a case had been filed in Sector 20 Police Station.

The accused Rachit Ghai had been arrested for selling remdesivir injections at a price higher than the market rate. On further investigation it was found that the injections were fake. The nature of the crime is such that it endangers lives of common citizens because of which the NSA proceedings have been initiated, said a Sector 20 police official.

Rachit had gotten possession of more than 100 vials of Remdesivir through illegal channels, said police. The accused contacted families of patients through WhatsApp and offered them a direct supply of the medicine that was in high demand back in April. He had also posted messages of the injection availability on Facebook to gain customers, police said. The injection was being sold at a cost of approximately Rs 40,000, police said.

The injection samples had been sent for further examination to the local drug controller facility and it was found that the vials did not contain actual Remdesivir medicine.

An FIR was filed against Rachit for alleged fraud and under relevant sections of the Epidemic Act in Sector 20 Police Station.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had stated a no tolerance policy against those who indulged in black marketing of Covid 19 medicines. The state government had also ensured NSA proceedings against those accused of fraud.

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Noida: Man faces NSA proceedings for selling fake remdesivir injections and fraud - The Indian Express

Gorakhpur DM K Vijayendra Pandian on Wednesday allegedly threatened a Delhi-based journalist of imprisonment under the NSA after he called up Pandian to take official version of a story relating to alleged forceful eviction of 11 Muslim families residing near the famous Gorakhnath temple in the city.

Masihuzzama Ansari, who works with a news portal named Indiatomorrow.in, told National Herald that Pandian enquired about his religion and then, in an insulting tone, threatened to slap the NSA on him for creating enmity between two communities.

In an audio clip of the purported telephone conversation, Pandian allegedly says, You also have a Muslim name...Rise above your religion Ansari.

Ansari claimed that when he told Pandian that he had called him up to ascertain the facts and take the official version, the DM allegedly said, Why are you giving it a religious tone? They (Muslim families) are giving up their lands on their own. They have signed a consent letter.

Ansari contended that he called Pandian on Wednesday evening to ascertain whether the Muslims had agreed to sell their land on their own or were forced to sign the consent papers as alleged in certain quarters.

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On a sunny Friday morning, the class of 2021 at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy walked across the stage to celebrate 13 years of hard work.

High school graduation is a day that students look forward to for years. Luckily for the class of 2021, the day came and was as normal as 2021 would allow.

A total of 60 graduates cheered, laughed and reminisced on how they made it to this celebratory day as well as their resilience during the past two school years.

I honestly didnt think I would be able to speak to you today, said Katherine Luzzatto, student council president. But here we are in person, and I get to welcome you to the graduation of the class of 2021.

Luzzatto looked back on the 13 years she has spent with her class at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy as they remembered memories and celebrated accomplishments.

Between Fifty Nifty and our last day water balloon fight, with state titles won in softball and lacrosse, the robotics team heading to the world championships; accolades in band, chorus and visual arts; eight students off to play sports in college, scholarships and exceptional college admissions, this class has not failed to leave its mark at NSA, Luzzatto said.

Salutatorian Frances Hope also noted the bond the class has as they have given the teachers and staff at the school much grief. Her speech efficiently recounted what made this class so unique.

We will forever be known as the class of 2021, who made more teachers quit than any others, Hope said to the laughter of her peers. But more importantly, the class that overcame the most struggles to get where we are all with a smile on our faces. Congratulations everyone, we survived.

Valedictorian Arya Barot took time to thank those who made a difference behind the scene in each graduates life to help them get to where they are as they take this leap into adulthood.

To all of you in the audience, the Michelangelos who have lovingly made of us a sculpture from a slab of marble, he said. We are forever indebted to you as we continue to be chiseled into the Davids we are destined to become. We vow to live our lives in deep gratitude honoring your love, cherishing your blessings. May God continue to bless each of us on the journey forward.

The commencement speaker was Charles Chuck Culpepper, a sports writer for The Washington Post and a 1980 NSA graduate. His job has taken him all over the world with many great experiences. He used these experiences to give the class of 2021 60 bits of advice for the graduating class of 60.

The advice included: attend all classes and parties in college; watch the sunset in Africa; mutter the word adventure when in a new situation; when in Washington, D.C., visit at least one veterans memorial; try new things that may make you uncomfortable; learn how to apologize; what others say about you isnt your business; ride your bike around Vancouver; visit large sporting events; meet new people and learn from them; ride a camel if given a chance; spend little time as possible on Twitter; and screw-ups can be a beginning.

Fear is normal, and this is bit of advice number 60 fear is normal and fear is everywhere, but as you go along in life, try to shed fear, Culpepper said. I wish you so much adventure and vividness and light.

The class of 2021 left the field to a rendition of When the Saints Go Marching In. Just like the song, the Saints went marching into a new phase of life, ready to face their next adventure.

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NSA grads start a new adventure - The Suffolk News-Herald - Suffolk News-Herald

Islamabad severed ties with Hamdullah Mohib, the National Security Advisor of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for terming Pakistan as "brothel house".

Early this month, in a public speech in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan National Security Chief, Hamdullah Mohib called Pakistan a "brothel house", reported The Khaama Press News Agency.

A senior Pakistani official privy to the matter told VOA on condition of anonymity his government would not hold bilateral engagements with the Afghan national security adviser over his recent remarks against Islamabad, reported The Khaama Press News Agency.

The Pakistani official added that Islamabad had shared its "strong protest" with the Afghan government in connection with the remarks.

Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan released a statement in connection with the remark and counted it as a "baseless allegation". They also added that such remarks undermine trust and mutual understanding between Islamabad and Kabul, reported The Khaama Press News Agency.

The controversy highlighted political tensions and historic mistrust plaguing relations between the South Asian neighbours, which share a nearly 2,600-kilometer border.

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The latest trigger came after Hamdullah Mohib, who routinely accuses Pakistan and its spy agency of supporting and directing the Taliban's in Afghanistan, charges Islamabad rejects, reported VOA.

His remarks sparked outrage among leaders in Islamabad, who denounced them, saying they "debased all norms of interstate communication."

Meanwhile, Mohib added that Pakistani tribes, including Pashtuns and Balochis are not happy with their country's government, adding that Pashtuns and Balochis are fighting for their rights.

Mohib's remarks about Islamabad came just days before after Pakistan's military chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Kabul and had a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in the presence of Nick Carter, Britain's Chief of the Defense Staff.

Office of The National Security Council has not yet commented on the mater, reported The Khaama Press News Agency.

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Islamabad severs ties with Afghan NSA for terming Pakistan as 'brothel house' - Hindustan Times

Back in 2005, the head of the National Security Agency broke out his red marker and circled a section of a white paper written by cybersecurity experts and gave them a two-month deadline to bring this idea to bear.

The concept the experts detailed to Gen. Keith Alexander would let NSA use technology to identify adversary tradecraft in flight, outside the wire so to speak, and treat it as a network problem.

Alexander thought the technology would be a game changer maybe not a silver bullet but something that would give the Defense Department a head start against ever-increasing threat before they made their way into the network.

Now, 16 years later, experts say this type of technology wouldve gone far to prevent, or at least limit, the damage for most of the major cyber breaches federal agencies suffered since 2005.

It was a big deal because we brought intelligence and defensive folks under one roof. The results were profound. We created a rich contextual threat intelligence about what adversaries were doing to DoD and we used it to warn incident responders and others, said Steve Ryan, a former deputy director of NSAs Threat Operations Center who coauthored the aforementioned white paper.

We set out to do something big and bold. We created classified capabilities that were largely tuned to interfere with cyber outside the network, said Ryan, who is now the CEO and co-founder of Trinity Cyber. We were leveraging our knowledge of the adversaries.

Ryan said his team fielded a pilot by the end of calendar year 2005 and presented it to Alexander. By December 2008, the capability was protecting all of DoD.

Generally speaking, the capability is focused on deep packet inspection and the ability to reroute traffic that is potentially a threat to the network. The tool would stop remote code execution and find malicious software to make it more difficult for hackers to get inside an organizations network. Some experts said capabilities like this, especially now 13 years later, would have limited the impact of the SolarWinds attack.

As DoD rolled out the capability, NSA started talking to the Department of Homeland Security about adding the technology to the EINSTEIN program.

John Felker, a former Coast Guard and DHS cyber official, said NSA was set to implement a version of these capabilities in EINSTEIN.

They got all the way to be ready to pull the trigger and the deputy secretary at the time decided to stop it, and decided that DHS could do something similar on their own, said Felker, who now is president of Morse Alpha Associates. That was unfortunate. There was an idea that DHS could do it themselves and folks were selling a program that would have a positive impact, but they oversold it. That may be a reason so many people dont understand what EINSTEIN is or was supposed to do.

That lack of understanding of what the EINSTEIN tools are and are not came to a head over the last few months as lawmakers and misinformed experts questioned why the more than $1 billion investment over the last 16 years didnt stop the SolarWinds attack.

The fact is the EINSTEIN program was never designed to stop SolarWinds or the Microsoft Exchange hack or even the Office of Personnel Management hack.

Current and former DHS and White House officials said the investment in the EINSTEIN tools made agencies safer and met the initial goals laid out in 2004: To stop known attack vectors or signatures through intrusion detection and prevention tools.

There seems to be the misconception that EINSTEIN should block every sophisticated cyber threat. Unfortunately, that is a false narrative, Matt Hartman, the deputy executive assistant director for cyber at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in an interview with Federal News Network. He called EINSTEIN just one component of a layered defense.

Its a key piece and its success relies on information provided by commercial and intelligence community partners, he said. But its not going to pick up a novel supply chain attack that was designed for many months and executed in a matter of hours. For that reason, it must be complemented with other tools like those through the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program and through cybersecurity shared services.

Understanding those layered defense concepts became more critical with the new cybersecurity executive order that President Joe Biden signed May 13. With dozens of new and expanded initiatives, lawmakers and agency leaders should heed the lessons learned from EINSTEIN and other governmentwide cyber programs: The need for flexible, iterative tools and capabilities. The White House needs to break down the DoD, intelligence community and civilian agency silos by not adhering to the old, not invented here mindset.

Karen Evans, the former administrator of e-government and IT at the Office of Management and Budget and former DHS chief information officer, said the combination of EINSTEIN, CDM, Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) and other capabilities were laid out in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) in 2008 during the waning days of the Bush administration.

Our goal was to connect the security operations center initiatives across government, Evans said. DoD, NSA, DHS and others were supposed to bring them altogether.

Evans is referencing paragraph 39 of the CNCI that called for a whole-of-government incident response capability.

Of course that never happened, so tools like EINSTEIN were left to fend for themselves.

A former DHS cybersecurity official, who requested anonymity because they didnt get permission to speak to the press from their current private sector job, said a common choke point for EINSTEIN was the inability of DHS to get consent from agencies to monitor their internet traffic.

Even once consent was reached, then it took time to schedule the cut overs onto the services. EINSTEIN versions 1 and 2 were easy. E3A was complex because it was inline and blocking. However, once those legal, privacy and technical hurdles were crossed, the later onboarding of agencies could move rapidly, the former official said. The big gap during my time was the lack of internal monitoring data security alerts from applications, servers, desktops and other endpoints. EINSTEIN can only see what data it is receiving. Cyber is about the whole picture. I dont think the question is about EINSTEIN as much as it is about whether the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) are authorized and able to receive a much more comprehensive set of security event data.

Felker, the former DHS and Coast Guard cyber official, said creating a signature for a malicious code, testing that signature and putting it into EINSTEIN is not as easy as some would like to think.

Weve had this before where signatures ended up blocking mission critical activities even with testing. That made signatures challenging, he said. Add to that the fact that agency networks are not homogenous, it becomes a balancing act and a risk management act.

Once again, another executive order will try to break down those systemic barriers that prevented the NSA adding its capability to EINSTEIN. Congress and other administrations have attempted to do this through policy and laws, but few have succeeded in making real progress.

CISAs Hartman said its clear no entity can know everything. This was never more true than with SolarWinds, an instance in which FireEye alerted the intelligence community, CISA and others about the attack.

EINSTEIN is only as good as information it is receiving for both the intelligence community as well as from commercial partners to enable partners to build in load signatures into the system that can detect or prevent similar attack techniques, he said. There is a capability that is a part of EINSTEIN 3A, that is known as logical response aperture. This capability was developed as an initial attempt to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with network-based data in an attempt to identify suspicious malicious data without prior intelligence that could be deployed in a signature-based detection and prevention capability. This is now deployed at two internet service provider locations within the National Cybersecurity Protection System EINSTEIN 3 architecture. Its been a valuable analytics platform, and, quite frankly, it is limited in its ability to detect verifiable malicious, network-based activity.

Hartman said CISAs plan is to focus this capability as a component of its analytical environment, providing one more toolset to review and determine potential and real threats.

Experts says what Hartman is describing is more about how CISA is changing than any one tool or capability.

Evans said CISA is a service provider with authorities from Congress and OMB to manage the results of the technology versus managing the tools themselves.

This is a culture change. What Congress is asking CISA is what do you need? and holding the DHS secretary accountable for delivering results, she said. The question that Congress and OMB have to answer is how far they want CISA to go to enforce and manage federal networks. That is the question.

Tom Bossert, the former Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump and now president of Trinity Cyber, said there are new capabilities, similar to the one NSA implemented so many years ago, that could provide greater benefit to agencies.

[Expanding NSAs tools] wasnt necessarily a missed opportunity by government or the private sector, but a reflection of where we stand today. We have mismatched capabilities and defenders have not made the necessary changes as offenders are far more nimble. There are major developments in how we access networks, the diversification of edge and cloud services and a significant amount of innovative technology that could be applied in a different way to prevent cyber breaches, Bossert said. We must find happy medium ground within our collective cyber industry. There is a resistance to innovation and there is a strong risk aversion to change because we are worried about unintended consequences.

Bossert added the latest cyber attacks have shown there is better interagency coordination and clarity of purpose, and that must continue as the threats evolve.

CISAs Hartman said he believes that EINSTEIN has met its original intent and much more. The capability routinely finds instances of anomalous activity that are confirmed and stopped.

We are constantly modernizing our portfolio of capabilities, he said. We are thinking about EINSTEIN, CDM, the cyber quality service management office (QSMO) and how to evolve all of those capabilities. The evolution is underway, and it will accelerate in the coming months as [a] result of new authorities under [the] 2021 defense authorization act and the funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

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BASIS has joined forces with the National Sheep Association to create a sheep industry first the Register of Sheep Advisers (RoSA).

Launched this month, RoSA aims to recognise personal development and training for advisers, so they can continue to support UK sheep farmers so they can access the best and most appropriate advice to meet their business needs.

The first opportunity for members to join RoSA and collect CPD points will be on June 1, in a webinar on maintaining lamb performance post-weaning.

BASIS CEO, Stephen Jacob, said that RoSA aimed to drive the UK sheep industry towards a sustainable future: The industry is facing a huge period of change, and to navigate through these uncertain times, farmers will be seeking up-to-date advice from professionals across the industry.

RoSA will pull together advisers from all areas of the sheep industry, such as nutritionists, vets, RAMAs, environmental advisers, farm consultants and technical specialists who can all provide comprehensive advice on all aspects of sheep production.

RoSA membership will allow all advisers working within the UK sheep sector to demonstrate that they have comprehensive knowledge across all aspects of sheep production, and signifies a commitment to professional development through structured CPD, he said.

At BASIS, were excited for this new collaboration in the livestock sector and look forward to welcoming the first cohort of RoSA members in June, he concluded.

Those interested in becoming a RoSA member can sign up at http://www.sheepadvisers.co.uk, or can find out more by contacting sheepadvisers@basis-reg.co.uk

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BASIS and NSA launch Register of Sheep Advisers - The Scottish Farmer