SAN FRANCISCO - After four years as chief security officer at MySpace, Hemanshu Nigam is leaving his full-time job to start a new firm that advises companies on how to handle safety, security, and privacy. Nigam, who will continue to advise MySpace and its parent company News Corp., hopes to bring his expertise to start-ups,
WASHINGTON DC - On April 6-7, the InfraGard National Members Alliance and the Houston, Acadiana, New Orleans, and Mobile Chapters led a multi-state Full Scale Exercise in collaboration with law enforcement agencies and critical infrastructure firms from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. More than 150 persons from more than 70 different public and private sector
DETROIT - Current software engineering practices inadvertently leave software and systems susceptible to attacks. As evidence, the DHS's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) lists 797 explicit defects and the list is growing at a constant rate. These defects cost the average U.S. Company $22 million dollars a year to fix. Moreover, it isn?t like recommendations for
ANN ARBOR - Emerging Company and New Business Idea participants are preparing their documents for this Friday's deadline for spring 2010 edition of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business-plan competition. Entrepreneurs vying for the $100,000 SmartZone Award submitted their business plans on April 23.Winners in all categories will be announced at the GLEQ Awards Event
DETROIT ? Asterand, which provides human tissue and human tissue-based services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in drug discovery, Tuesday announced that its subsidiary BioSeek, a predictive human biology to drug discovery company, has signed a two-year collaboration agreement with Eisai Co., a research-based human health care company headquartered in Japan. Under the agreement,
TROY - Walsh College will hold the CISSP Exam June 12 at the Troy campus starting at 8:30 AM in room 199. Please register for the exam at ISC2.Org Walsh College will host the annual Spring Student Capstone Fair June 12, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Please stop by to view student projects.
DETROIT - Many small businesses think they aren't large enough to compete in the world marketplace. In fact, 97 percent of all exporters are small businesses. To grow your business, you need to think outside the box and outside the borders. Today, nearly 96 percent of the world's population lives outside the U.S. Two-thirds of
ANN ARBOR - Three Michigan companies recently received a combined total of $121,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund Program, bringing the total amount invested through the Fund to over $1.1 million. Inventure Enterprises, LED Optical Solutions, and RiserCam, received the funding to support commercialization of their core products. Inventure Enterprises, based in East Lansing, is
YPSILANTI - The Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce will merge on June 1, after the motion was approved unanimously at a Special Joint Membership meeting of the Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce and its Educational foundation. The adoption of the merger of the Ypsilanti Area Chamber of
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration has proposed changes, including higher surety bond guarantee limits, that will help construction and service sector firms secure larger contracts for work in areas impacted by disasters. The proposed changes, which were published as part of a Proposed Rule in The Federal Register on April 26, include: For