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CATEGORY: EVENTS & EXPOS, Innovation, Security, Webinar

PRIVACY STRATEGY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

Privacy Strategy & Consumer Protection Are you ready to strengthen your privacy strategy and protect consumers in the digital age? The BSI are delivering a double feature webinar series where leading experts will share practical guidance on embedding privacy standards, building digital trust and ensuring online safety. As representatives at the BSI (British Standards Institution) […]

CATEGORY: Safeguarding, Security, Software Development, WEBINARS

INFORMATION SECURITY WEBINAR

Information Security – the issues and challenges. Chris Myers gives a thought-provoking presentation about Artificial Intelligence and ethical developments. He begins by asking: “How do we know that the information provided by AI is true, accurate, and non-biased?”. Chris looks into the warning from the ‘Godfather of AI’ Yoshua Bengio, who sounds the alarm about […]

CATEGORY: Cyber Attack, Innovation, Safeguarding, Security

CATCHING THE SCAMMERS

Scam Interceptors. If you haven’t watched it already, put it on your watch list. Scam Interceptors is a documentary series on BBC One, the outline of which is described as: “Working with ethical hackers to hunt down the scammers plaguing our lives, using cutting-edge tech to catch out crooks.” We thought IAP members, especially with […]

CATEGORY: Cyber Attack, In The Press, Security, Software Development

DESIGNING RESILIENT SOFTWARE

Cyber Attack Awareness. M&S, the Co-op and Harrods have all been recent victims of cyber attack. Software Developers Beware In the spirit of ‘improving software for society’, the IAP urge software developers to raise their awareness around cyber security in order to create and design more resilient software to combat cyber attack. Avoid using back […]

CATEGORY: In The Press, Safeguarding, Security, Software Development

A FOOL-PROOF GUIDE TO AVOIDING IT SPECIFIC SCAMS

Avoiding IT Specific Scams in the UK: A Guide for Professionals Credential Harvesting & Phishing HOW IT WORKS: Attackers send fake login pages for systems like Office 365, AWS, GitHub, etc. TACTICS: – Lookalike domains (micr0soft.com, aws-support.co.uk) – MFA fatigue attacks: constant login prompts to trick you into approving DEFENCE: – Use hardware-based 2FA (e.g., […]

CATEGORY: In The Press, Post Office, Post Office Scandal, Security, Software Development

POST OFFICE SCANDAL – 25 YEARS ON

Spare a thought when you post your Christmas cards. The Post Office Horizon Scandal. Where are we now? It took until 2019 for the Horizon system to be found error-prone in a High Court judgement after first being exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009. More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted. Up until now, 93 […]

CATEGORY: EVENTS & EXPOS, Innovation, IT History, Security, Software Development, Uncategorised

THE FINTECH EVOLUTION

Our Next Webinar: Friday 13th September 2024 at 2pm. FROM BARTER TO BLOCKCHAIN: THE EVOLUTION & SECURITY OF FINTECH. We delve into the historical evolution of financial trade, tracing its roots from ancient barter systems and the advent of commodities-based currency around 3000 BC to the sophisticated banking operations of Ancient Mesopotamia and the medieval […]

CATEGORY: Security, The IAP At 50

PROTECTING OUR ASSETS

The IAP at 50. Reflections from Paul Lynham FIAP. In April 1999, Paul wrote an article on copy protection. At the time floppy discs were the medium of choice. Today, even more elaborate methods have been created to protect our creations in this digital world, where few remember what it was like before digital downloads. […]