Barriers to achieving higher levels of cybersecurity in Local Government
The 2016 Cybersecurity survey[1] of local government chief information officers revealed that the general inability in local government to offer competitive salaries, combined with a lack of cybersecurity staff, and a recurring lack of funds have prevented local governments from [...]
My general opinion about cybersecurity
In my opinion cyber-security is all the organized actions required to protect information from any risk in all its forms (digital, physical). Ensure the systems and networks which store, retrieve , process and transport the information. Including measures to protect [...]
Introducing the Concept of CS-AWARE to Greek Public Organizations
Dissemination actions are more than essential for the sustainability, scalability and successful course of an ambitious project. In the case of CS-AWARE early dissemination becomes a necessity, considering the pan-European nature and character of the applied research, currently implemented. So, [...]
GDPR: the centrality of data security in the digital era
The entrance in force of the GDPR set new challenges and opportunities for Europe-based companies. In particular, the new regulation puts cyber security under the spotlight as a fundamental requirement to guarantee data protection. Indeed, as the digital revolution [...]
Bringing the information out of the information
When faced with an enormous amount of data, in our case, Cyber Security related data, it is easy to miss the real points. Current available systems are very good at pinpointing single or even common occurrences of for instance intrusion [...]
Cybersecurity: the human factor
We are Wise & Munro, and we are specialised in human collaboration, facilitated by technology. Our role is to be a partner in projects in which collaborative technology is being developed, to guide and conduct social research by which we [...]
The CriM17 workshop in Oulu and CS-AWARE
It has been about a month since the CriM17 workshop in Oulu which gave me some time to process all the information received during the lectures and workshop sessions, and to think about how the different angles in which security [...]
Soft Systems Workshop Roma Capitale
Just beginning to assimilate, organise and process the outputs from last week’s “Soft Systems” workshop in Roma Capitale (RC). It was an excellent week with extremely good and detailed input from the team at RC, all of whom worked very [...]
Big-data data collection for CS-AWARE
Within the CS-AWARE project, 3rdPlace is committed in implementing a data collection framework capable of storing in a real time fashion a large stream of logs coming from systems, applications, databases and network devices. After an initial analysis phase carried [...]