The graduation of the first batch of the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WISAR) Course was held last July 20 at the Trinity College of Asia. WISAR is a six-weekend course organized by different rescue groups. Ted Esguerra, one of the organizers, told SecurityMatters that the course was created following what…

It’s a beautiful day. Sky’s blue, with puffy white clouds. Warm sun, typical of this time of year. Traffic is heavy, but flowing, on the streets far below.  Looking out the windows of the upper stories of a tall office building, all seems to be at peace.  Then the jet…

To the youth of our land. The privilege to serve. The mission of the Philippine Military Academy is to instruct, train, and develop the cadets so that they shall possess the character, the broad and basic military skills, and the education essential to the pursuit of a progressive military career…

The online community promoting disaster preparedness and awareness Get Ready Pinas has launched its website today, July 19, at the Commune Cafe in Makati City. Get Ready Pinas is an online initiative that promotes disaster preparedness through social media. Prior to the website’s launch, Get Ready Pinas maintains online presence…

  To cope with an increased number of large distributed denial of service attacks, banks must not only have plans in place – they should consider a broad set of defensive tools that combine on-premise technologies and cloud-based scrubbing services. Financial institutions have been battling waves of large distributed denial…

The Department of Health (DOH) has announced today the inclusion of free anti-pneumonia vaccine to its immunization program for children in health centers around the country. “We are introducing the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) to the Philippine vaccination program for infants,” said Secretary of Health Enrique Ona in a statement.…