Day: March 23, 2023

Collaboration marks the first global installation of Corning’s G1 production system to support higher-quality API-chemical production using inherently safer flow-chemistry technology

ALBANY, N.Y., March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Curia, a leading contract research, development and manufacturing organization, today announced a collaboration with Corning Incorporated to expand and accelerate continuous-flow development and manufacturing programs for the chemical and biopharmaceutical industries globally. The collaboration with Corning’s Advanced-Flow Reactor (AFR) team includes the first installation of Corning’s G1 production system, designed for the continuous industrial production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).

Continuous flow chemistry is critical for the development and manufacture of pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs, and provides advantages compared with traditional batch processing. It is an inherently safer technology that delivers faster and more robust material production with a higher selectivity of desired products.

“Innovation in drug development and production calls for safety at high speed,” said Christopher Conway, president, Research & Development, Curia. “The implementation of Corning’s G1 Production Reactor at our Albany facility expands our capability to provide scalable solutions that address complex development and manufacturing requirements facing the pharmaceutical industry. Using advanced technology and standardized workflows, Curia offers continuous flow chemistry from targeted development to commercial scale globally.”

The G1 production reactor includes an updated set of dosing lines and controls that enable continuous operations and compliance to cGMP standards.

“Collaborating with an innovation-focused company like Curia will help drive advancements in the chemical-processing industry,” said Alessandra Vizza, business director, Corning Advanced-Flow Reactors. “The implementation of Corning’s G1 production system can deliver a host of benefits. The system is an inherently safer technology that will help Curia reduce time to market with higher-quality chemical and API processing, increased efficiency of chemical and API synthesis, and lower production costs.”

“Additionally, the space-saving, energy-conserving, and waste-reducing benefits of Corning’s AFR Technology may help customers reduce the environmental impact of their manufacturing business – a key attribute as the field continues to gain momentum in the U.S. and around the world,” said Vizza.

Curia’s expertise and global network of facilities, combined with Corning’s continuous flow technology, can help drive business efficiencies and, ultimately, improve patients’ lives.

About Curia
Curia is a leading contract research, development, and manufacturing organization providing products and services from R&D through commercial manufacturing to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical customers. Curia’s nearly 4,000 employees at 29 locations across the U.S., Europe, and Asia help its customers advance from curiosity to cure. Learn more at CuriaGlobal.com.

About Corning Incorporated
Corning (www.corning.com) is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science, with a 170-year track record of life-changing inventions. Corning applies its unparalleled expertise in glass science, ceramic science, and optical physics along with its deep manufacturing and engineering capabilities to develop category-defining products that transform industries and enhance people’s lives. Corning succeeds through sustained investment in RD&E, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and deep, trust-based relationships with customers who are global leaders in their industries. Corning’s capabilities are versatile and synergistic, which allows the company to evolve to meet changing market needs, while also helping its customers capture new opportunities in dynamic industries. Today, Corning’s markets include optical communications, mobile consumer electronics, display, automotive, solar, semiconductors, and life sciences.

Curia Contact Information:
Sue Zaranek
+1 518 512 2111
corporatecommunications@CuriaGlobal.com

Corning Contact Information:
Sarah Pakyala
+1 607 974 4902
pakyalasi@corning.com

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Revision aims to support business schools in today’s ranking efforts and help prospective candidates compare programs on leveled playing field

RESTON, Va., March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a global association representing leading business schools, today released an updated version of the Graduate Management Education Admissions Reporting Standards. The revision, led by a task force of 14 GMAC member schools, aimed to ensure the standards align with the shifting landscape of graduate business education and today’s best practices of identifying gender, race and ethnicity, and undergraduate majors, among other criteria commonly used in the admissions process.

According to GMAC’s annual survey on prospective students worldwide, candidates rely heavily on school websites and rankings in their program selection process. The 2023 survey of thousands of business school aspirants – to be published early next month – shows that school websites and published program rankings were the top two factors in the decision making of individuals considering applying for graduate business degrees. Informed by this finding, GMAC believes it is vitally important that the information presented to prospective students is anchored in a common definition of the terms used by schools and various publications in collecting the data for reporting.

“This work, initiated in response to a strong desire for consistency and transparency from the business school community we serve, is being done to create trust with and among business school admissions professionals, especially those who are new to the field. Without a doubt, adopting the standardized reporting criteria at a large scale would allow prospective students and rankings organizations alike to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges across the wide spectrum of program options available in the market today,” said Joy Jones, CEO of GMAC. “On behalf of the Council, I extend our sincerest gratitude to the task force for the time, effort, and care dedicated to revising and promoting the standards.”

“The task force invested many hours reviewing survey questionnaires and collecting data, as well as discussing proposed revisions over calls and with stakeholders at conferences, to address the tough questions from the business school community on how we can better reflect the many changes in the industry – and the society – we encounter today. For example, there is a growing acknowledgement and respect for identity preferences and an interest in segments like first generation and military students,” said Marci Armstrong, professor of practice, marketing at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and co-chair of the task force revising the standards. “Rest assured, we were fully aware of the stakes at hand and did not just rubber-stamp the new standards.”

In 2019, GMAC formed a task force to revise the MBA Reporting Criteria – first published by GMAC in 2000 and adopted by approximately 200 business schools – into Graduate Management Education Admissions Reporting Standards. The standards, subsequently endorsed by GMAC members in the summer of 2020, were meant to be revisited every two years to ensure they continue to guide business schools in distributing reliable, accurate, useful, and comparable admissions data for prospective students and rankings organizations. A new task force was organized at the beginning of 2022 to tackle the review and revision of the standards in three sections – school and program information, application process, and admissions reporting and class profile, supplemented by region and areas of study classifications.

“In the past three years – particularly in response to the global pandemic – our industry has innovated and grown tremendously. A prime example is the delivery of online programs,” said Nita Swinsick, associate dean of graduate & executive degree programs admissions at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and co-chair of the task force. “While the traditional on-campus, two-year MBA remains the most sought-after graduate management degree, there are a great number of programs offering a wide range of flexibility and length and still lead to successful business careers.”

“GMAC will continue to be a steward of the standards and will publish a list of schools and corresponding programs that decide to adopt and remain in compliance with the standards. Adopting and complying schools can also receive a badge from GMAC for use in their outreach materials to signal to candidates, ranking publishers and other stakeholders their compliance with the standards,” said Sabrina White, vice president of school and industry engagement at GMAC. “It is our hope that more members of the business school community – as well as ranking publishers – will begin leveraging these standards to benefit the people aspiring to better themselves and the world through graduate management education.”

Business schools, ranking agencies and other stakeholders worldwide that wish to obtain a copy of or start adopting the latest reporting standards may reach out to GMAC at datastandards@gmac.com.

About GMAC

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools worldwide. GMAC provides world-class research, industry conferences, recruiting tools, and assessments for the graduate management education industry as well as resources, events, and services that help guide candidates through their higher education journey. Owned and administered by GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) exam is the most widely used graduate business school assessment.

More than 12 million prospective students a year trust GMAC’s websites, including mba.com, to learn about MBA and business master’s programs, connect with schools around the world, prepare and register for exams and get advice on successfully applying to MBA and business master’s programs. BusinessBecause and The MBA Tour are subsidiaries of GMAC, a global organization with offices in China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

To learn more about our work, please visit www.gmac.com

Media Contact:

Teresa Hsu
Sr. Manager, Media Relations
Mobile: 202-390-4180
thsu@gmac.com 

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Un nouveau rapport du FS-ISAC attire l’attention sur la possibilité de cyberattaques contre des institutions publiques et privées

RESTON, Virginie, 23 mars 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FS-ISAC, l’organisation à but non lucratif dirigée par ses membres qui fait progresser la cybersécurité et la résilience dans le système financier mondial, a annoncé aujourd’hui les conclusions de son rapport annuel du Global Intelligence Office, Navigating Cyber 2023.

Le dernier rapport a mis en évidence l’effet que l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie avait eu sur le paysage mondial des cybermenaces, déclenchant un flot d’« hacktivisme » idéologiquement motivé, toujours présent à ce jour. Émanant des deux côtés du conflit, les menaces ont augmenté de manière substantielle au sein du secteur des services financiers, particulièrement pour les institutions situées dans des pays que la Russie considère comme hostiles. Ces menaces peuvent provenir de groupes hacktivistes ou directement des États-nations eux-mêmes.

« Malheureusement, l’implication croissante d’acteurs non étatistes qui attaquent sur une base idéologique et la manipulation des informations par des acteurs malveillants continueront de semer l’incertitude dans le paysage des menaces de sécurité réelles et perçues », a déclaré Steven Silberstein, PDG du FS-ISAC. « Le meilleur outil à la disposition des institutions financières pour combattre cela est le partage de renseignements, qui permet une collaboration au sein de l’industrie mondiale et assure une meilleure cyberpréparation. Les cybermenaces évoluent souvent plus vite que les outils que nous utilisons pour les combattre, néanmoins notre force réside dans notre communauté. »

Le rapport souligne aussi que certaines des cybermenaces les plus courantes, comme les attaques DDoS et les ransomwares, deviennent plus sophistiquées, et l’éventail des outils dont dispose un acteur malveillant continue de s’étendre.

Dans la perspective de 2023, certains des principaux facteurs de changement dans le paysage des menaces comprennent :

• Un marché en croissance pour le malware-as-a-service : À mesure que les acteurs de la menace se spécialisent dans des aspects spécifiques de la chaîne de destruction et proposent leurs services dans les compétences et le code à vendre, les cyberattaques deviennent plus faciles à orchestrer, moins imputables et moins risquées. Les menaces sur les chaînes d’approvisionnement prolifèrent tandis que les principaux fournisseurs de logiciels, d’authentification, de technologie et de services cloud sont de plus en plus ciblés.
• L’accessibilité de l’IA qui aide les pirates et les défenseurs : L’émergence d’une nouvelle technologie d’intelligence artificielle abaisse la barrière du piratage, permettant aux acteurs de menaces d’utiliser des outils comme ChatGPT pour concevoir des leurres de phishing toujours plus convaincants. Toutefois, ces mêmes outils seront également mis à profit pour renforcer les défenses.
• Les cryptomonnaies offrent une cible de choix aux cybercriminels : Les cryptomonnaies et les actifs financiers numériques sont de plus en plus intégrés dans l’infrastructure financière mondiale, avec la génération d’un environnement réglementaire complexe pour les sociétés multinationales. Par ailleurs, les groupes de menace vont continuer de financer leurs activités à l’aide de cryptomonnaies, soulignant la nécessité d’une meilleure surveillance et de meilleures protections des classes d’actifs.

« L’inventivité des cybercriminels est sans fin, et ils sont aidés par les avancées technologiques », a commenté Teresa Walsh, directrice mondiale du renseignement au sein du FS-ISAC. « L’émergence des nouvelles technologies et des tactiques de diffusion des logiciels malveillants obligera les institutions à s’assurer qu’elles suivent en permanence et de manière continue l’évolution des cybermenaces et qu’elles se concentrent sur la résilience afin d’être en mesure de poursuivre leurs activités, quoi qu’il arrive. »

Le paysage des menaces change rapidement et les organisations sont confrontées à des défis majeurs liés à l’augmentation des réglementations dans le monde, aux changements sismiques sur le marché de la cyberassurance et au manque de talents en cybersécurité. Confronté à des changements massifs dans son environnement opérationnel, le secteur des services financiers doit se frayer un chemin parmi les pressions visant à réduire les coûts sans compromettre la capacité de faire continuer d’évoluer les défenses et d’améliorer la résilience opérationnelle.

Méthodologie

Le rapport Navigating Cyber 2023 est alimenté par des milliers de sociétés financières membres du FS-ISAC dans 75 pays et renforcé par des analyses du Global Intelligence Office. Plusieurs flux de renseignements ont été exploités pour la curation de ce tour d’horizon, qui a examiné des données allant de janvier 2022 à janvier 2023. La version accessible au public du rapport peut être trouvée ici. L’intégralité du rapport est uniquement disponible pour les institutions financières membres.

À propos du FS-ISAC

Le FS-ISAC est l’organisation à but non lucratif dirigée par ses membres qui fait progresser la cybersécurité et la résilience du système financier mondial, en protégeant les institutions financières et les personnes qu’elles servent. Fondé en 1999, le réseau de partage d’informations en temps réel de l’organisation amplifie les renseignements, les connaissances et les pratiques de ses membres pour la sécurité et les défenses collectives du secteur financier. Les sociétés financières membres représentent 100 billions de dollars d’actifs dans 75 pays.

Contacts auprès des médias :
media@fsisac.com

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