Letran and Ad Foundation to Hold AdSpeak ‘17

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Colegio de San Juan de Letran, in partnership with the Advertising Foundation of the Philippines, will convene delegates from various schools when it holds AdSpeak ‘17, a student convention on values advertising. Letran and the Ad Foundation are co-presenting AdSpeak ’17 since they share the same goal of promoting values and worthwhile advocacies in advertisements.

The event, which will take place on March 10, will be held at the Student Center Auditorium of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros, Manila. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

AdSpeak ’17 aims to impress on future communicators the importance of advertising with positive values. Advertising experts will share their insights during the whole-day affair. Among them are Melvin Mangada, Partner & Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\Santiago Mangada Puno; Titus Arce, Managing Director, Dentsu Jayme Syfu; Alan Fontanilla, Managing Director, MullenLowe Open Phils.; Maya Ambalada-Roldan, Business Unit Director, Y&R Phils.; Paolo de Leon, Creative Director, Aspac/Dentsu Aegis Network; Jethro Adriano, Chief Creative Officer, Project Junkie; and Paolo Agulto, Creative Group Head, DDB Singapore.

Aside from talks from resource speakers, AdSpeak ’17 will mount its Values Advertising Awards, Students’ Choice Awards and Online Choice Awards. Commercials that uphold values have been created and entered by student delegates in six categories: Print, Radio, TV, Campaign, Digital and Brand Communications.

Cyber Threat Alliance Expands Mission through Appointment of President, Formal Incorporation as Not-for-Profit and New Founding Members

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The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) recently announced the appointment of Michael Daniel as the organization’s first president and its formal incorporation as a not-for-profit entity. Additionally, founding Members Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) recently announced the addition of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) as new alliance founding Members. Together, the six founding Members have contributed to the development of a new, automated threat intelligence sharing platform to exchange actionable threat data, further driving the CTA’s mission of a coordinated effort against cyber adversaries.

News Summary

·      The CTA incorporated as a not-for-profit in January 2017 and appointed Michael Daniel as its first President in February. Daniel was formerly Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for the White House.

·      The CTA has expanded to include Check Point Software Technologies and Cisco as new founding Members who joined pre-incorporation. 

·      The CTA’s inaugural Board of Directors includes the CEOs and senior leadership of six major cybersecurity vendors: Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

·      The CTA outlines its corporate purpose as a not-for-profit: to share threat information in order to improve defenses against cyber adversaries across member organizations and protect customers; to advance the cybersecurity of critical IT infrastructures; and to increase the security, availability, integrity and efficiency of information systems.

·      The first CTA project as a standalone entity is the development and rollout of a new, automated threat intelligence-sharing platform that enables Members to integrate real-time, actionable intelligence into their products to better protect global customers.

·      In addition to expanding its founding Members, the CTA has added new affiliate Members, including IntSights, Rapid7 and RSA, who join existing Members Eleven Paths and ReversingLabs.

SPO3 Arthur Lascanas' Revelations: A Direct Stab at Credibility of Duterte

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The revelations made by SPO3 Arthur Lascanas today are a direct stab at the credibility of President Rodrigo Duterte and undermine his moral capacity to lead. They strengthen suspicions that the death squads responsible for thousands of unsolved extrajudicial killings (EJKs) are state sanctioned.

At the outset, Lascanas' testimony is different from those made by the convicted drug lords against Senator Leila De Lima. The government used criminals as witnesses against de Lima, who have everything to gain and nothing to lose. On the other hand, Lascanas, was a Davao police officer who served during President Duterte's time as Davao mayor; his stature and experience, and the risk he is taking in speaking against the highest leader of the land, could make him a source of reliable information and clarify, once and for all, issues surrounding the Davao Death Squad (DDS), and its association with President Duterte.

I call on the Senate to provide the necessary venue for Lascanas to divulge everything he knows about the DDS and the alleged involvement of the President. Lascanas' new revelation was made in the senate, and it overturns his previous testimony in the concluded Senate investigation on the EJKs. The Senate must respond to the public's clamor for truth and accountability.