Cyber security, risk management and policies
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 [...]
Cyber Security Summit 2018
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
Recommendation systems: Methods, Opportunities and Criticalities
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 [...]
CS-Aware Presented Between the European Projects of Rome Capital for Urban Security
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 [...]
Some cybersecurity at the DGO conference
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 [...]
Technology, business and markets
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 [...]
Cybersecurity in the EU & the NIS Directive
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 [...]
Big-Data v.s. Denial-of-service
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. [...]
Data Collection Challenges
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), [...]
