Having a look at this month’s cybersecurity events, there are no less that 9 events happening in Europe in July 2018: Date: July 2nd - 4th Location: Lille, France Event: Pass the SALT (Security And Libre Talks) Description: Building bridges between Security communities and Free Software hackers! Date: July 2nd - 6th Location: London, United Kingdom Event: OWASP AppSec Europe Description: Technical talks [...]
Nowadays, organisations, ranging from banks and government agencies to SMEs, depend heavily on the management of risks in order to preserve their existence, operation and profitability. This appears to be undeniable since risks exist in various forms, such as information security, compliance, reputational and outsourcing risks. If those risks are not identified, assessed and mitigated [...]
I spent a very informative and useful networking day at the Cyber Security Summit in London last week. The presentations from the day can be found here.Chris WillsCARIS Research
Recommender systems are one of the most successful and widespread application of machine learning technologies in business. The main goal of a recommender system is to provide users with the most useful items according to their interests, by filtering and suggesting relevant items taking into account or inferring the users’ preferences (i.e., tastes, interests, [...]
On Monday May 14th the Digital Transformation Department took part in the seminar "Urban security. Policies and instruments of the European Union ", organized by the Department of European Development and Financing Projects, in Campidoglio. The purpose of the morning, which saw the participation of the Ministry of the Interior, the Local Police of Roma Capitale and [...]
The Digital Government Society organised the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2018, with a theme: “Governance in the data age“. The dg.o 2018 conference was hosted by Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands from 30 May till 1 June, 2018. I presented a success story about citizens creating Open [...]
It usually all starts with an idea. As it is commonly said, the idea is king or the idea is the king and other clichés.Then it comes to the technology (Step 1): how one gives flesh and bones to an idea, how easy or trivial this is (not), how demanding in resources, know-how and capital. [...]
Whilst everyone in the European Union was leaving the last couple of weeks the frantic rhythms of preparation for the adaptation of the GDPR (May 25, 2018), another crucial EU legislation was getting into effect, regarding cybersecurity. Specifically, by the 9th of May 2018, all Member States should have transposed into their national legislation the [...]
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and evermore distributed Dos (DDos) attacks are serious threats since they can easily bring down an IT infrastructure causing huge revenue loses. Currently, traditional anti-DDos solutions represents an conspicuous cost mainly for small and medium size companies. Those costs are even more significant for public institutions.A modern and effective strategy to fight [...]
3rdplace is currently developing an in-house solution to collect data from local municipalities and security is the forefront; especially because within cs-aware we are dealing with databases of sensitive information.Alongside the most common security vulnerabilities such as SQL Injections (SQLi), XSS (Cross Site Scripting) and Cross Site Request Forgery, which affect most contemporary programming languages, [...]
