Music and Heroes at the Skydome

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Making way for lives to be easier, SALI Production a group of young men and women presents benefit concerts for everyone to enjoy.

SALi already won the hearts of many at the Himig At Tugma Para sa Buhay last April 21. Under the smoldering afternoon heat of SM Cabanatuan Garden, fans have gathered to listen to the irresistible vibe of IV of Spades. Together with local artists who performed their original songs and compositions the event successfully connected with the concert goers.

As time ticks during the event and fans’ excitement fills the air, the harsh heat swiped away as IV of Spades took the stage to sing their songs. Fans, as if on a slow-motion danced and sang to the music, mesmerized by the bright colors that is Zlid, Badjao, and Blaster.

The night goes on as fans scream for their idols, with some raising orange flags in support of the band.

With the triumph of the Cabanatuan event, Sali Production heads for their second event bringing music and hugot lines to the city.

The second Himig at Tugma Para Sa Buhay will be happening at SM North Edsa Skydome bringing with them local singers and spoken poetry artists. SALi delightfully shared two band who will perform in the second event.

For the concert’s Tugma, Carlo Hornilla, Crystel Bars, and Antonio Bathan will share their beloved original compositions. For the Himig, brother and sister Virtus and Olive Lenon the whose voices will surely mesmerize you will share their original songs. Completing the Himig line, Ben & Ben and Silent Sanctuary will headline the concert.

Everyone who has brought the tickets has saved the lives of Briley Jane Flores for her medictations, Maryrose Bermejo for Chemo therapy, Gibram Gam for liver operation and Liza Guevarra for medicine and maintenance. SALi Production hopes for the events success as it will further help their beneficiaries into the next stage of their medications, after all SALi is an acronym that means SAVE A LIFE.  Join us in our cause and enjoy our benefit concert.

Be our hero and let’s save a life!

For more information, visit our Facebook page Sali Porduction and our Twitter account @SALiProduction.


Written by Danielle Macadangdang

UP Fighting Maroons and 3M Philippines Seal Partnership Deal

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The University of the Philippines (UP) got a new major boost for their basketball program after UP inked a partnership deal with 3M Philippines, Inc.. 3M Philippines president and managing director Ariel Lacsamana, UP president Danilo Concepcion, and officials of the Nowhere To Go But UP Foundation (NTGBUP), a volunteer group of UP alumni that help the university’s varsity programs, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday, May 29, at Quezon Hall of the University of the Philippines Diliman. Also present at the MOU signing are UP head coach Bo Perasol, his coaching staff and the UP Fighting Maroons. 

UP’s partnership with 3M is one of the huge offseason moves that the Fighting Maroons has made in preparation for the upcoming UAAP season and the seasons to come.

Companies in Philippines Urged to Strengthen Cyber Security Readiness Ahead of European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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Fortinet identifies key industries impacted by the EU’s GDPR compliance requirements, and recommends steps to prevent, detect, and remediate data breaches on Personally Identifiable Information

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions today advised organizations in the Philippines to make final preparations to abide by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective 25 May 2018.

This law protects the personal information of all citizens of the European Union (EU) and will be enforced through fines, sanctions, and injured-party compensation. It is quite similar to an existing law in the Philippines, the Data Privacy Act of 2012, which subjects any business located in the country to stringent data protection laws that could cost offending organizations fines and jail time of up to six years.

As such, industries impacted by GDPR will need to review all business processes involving personally identifiable information (PII) and assess their organisational readiness to meet the 72-hour data breach reporting mandate.

The GDPR finely balances the rights of EU citizens to control their personal data against the responsibilities of organizations to protect that data both in the course of normal operations as well as in the case of data breaches. Significant new EU personal information protections include the right to explicitly approve personal data usage and a “right to be forgotten,” enabling people to demand that an organization purge any personal data about them. While businesses and governments with a physical presence in the EU will need to abide by GDPR, it may also apply to firms with significant EU customer or client bases.

Despite the impending deadline, most Asia Pacific businesses, which serve the EU market or have significant transactions that capture PII are still not fully prepared. According to the third biennial EY Global Forensic Data Analytics Survey by Ernst & Young (EY), only 12 per cent of firms in APAC have a GDPR compliance plan in place.

“While GDPR affects private and public sector organizations handling PII, certain key industries will have heightened exposure as a result of the volumes of PII data they handle as well as the nature of their business,” said Peerapong Jongvibool, Regional Director for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Fortinet. “These include e-commerce-based organizations operating internationally, as well as companies that serve significant numbers of tourists, visitors, or expatriates from the EU.”

Fortinet lists the top three industries impacted by GDPR:

• Retail − Retail businesses most likely to curate GDPR-relevant PII data include cross-border e-commerce operations, multi-venue retail chains, hospitality, travel, and F&B businesses. Brick-and-mortar businesses serving EU customers can also find themselves liable to GDPR PII protections. Paying with a credit or debit card, providing shipping address information and participating in a customer loyalty program all fall under the protection of GDPR.
  
• Healthcare − GDPR extends its coverage to non-EU organizations storing or processing the medical information of EU persons. GDPR enacts particularly stringent protection and processes for handling particular types of PII medical information. In general, an organization may collect and process personal medical information only if it is necessary for patient treatment and diagnosis, and with the explicit consent of the patient. GDPR also mentions genetic data as an area of particular concern.
  
• Financial Services - Financial organizations often maintain huge stockpiles of PII data on account holders. They also consume and generate vast quantities of highly personal marketing data to support selling financial services and assessing credit worthiness of commercial and individual customers.

Organizations preparing for GDPR must focus on reconfiguring their business processes and IT architectures, as well as reducing exposure of PII data.

Fortinet advises enterprises in the Philippines to take the following steps to accelerate GDPR compliance:

1. Engage a third-party firm to assess data protection practices and exposure to GDPR rules.
2. Conduct a comprehensive data audit to understand data source, collection and processing. It should include documenting where GDPR-impacted data is stored, how it is communicated between systems within the domain, and any external clouds or third-party data custodians.
3. Determine how long it takes for data-breach detection and mitigation and what is required to improve these processes to meet GDPR requirements. This element of the action plan should also include a detailed security assessment.

“At the end of the day, complying with GDPR may well turn out to be the right thing to do to protect the privacy and interests of all stakeholder communities linked to an organization,” concluded Jongvibool. “As onerous as GDPR might seem, it could mark a big step towards restoring public confidence in the ability of businesses to deliver social benefits while simultaneously curbing social risks.”