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WEBINAR: ZERO TRUST IN AI ERA

21.07.2026 Zero Trust for AI: Securing Intelligent Systems in a New Era WEBINAR: 2pm Thursday 23rd July 2026 About our webinar presenter Prashant Vajpayee: Prashant is Senior product leader, AI researcher, and Global Fellow (AI2030) with 20 years of experience in enterprise data governance, secure systems integration, agentic AI, and cybersecurity. Recognized for bridging advanced […]

CATEGORY: AI, Safeguarding, Security, WEBINARS

TRUSTWORTHY CHALLENGES WITH AI

21.04.2026 Our Next Webinar We are running a webinar on Friday, 24th April 2026 at 2pm UK time. IAP members are automatically sent an invitation and booking link by email. If you haven’t booked your place yet and would like to join us email your interest to admin@iap.org.uk. Trustworthiness Challenges with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Our […]

CATEGORY: Cyber Attack, In The Press, Safeguarding, Security

UK EXPOSES COVERT RUSSIAN SUBMARINE OPERATION

14.04.2026 UK Exposes Covert Russian Submarine Operation A covert Russian submarine operation has recently been revealed by the UK Ministry of Defence. Three Russian submarines conducted an undercover operation over cables and pipelines in the north Atlantic waters north of the UK, raising fresh concerns over the security of critical undersea infrastructure. Royal Navy vessels […]

CATEGORY: EVENTS & EXPOS, Innovation, Security, Webinar

PRIVACY STRATEGY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

21.10.2025 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 […]

CATEGORY: Safeguarding, Security, Software Development, WEBINARS

INFORMATION SECURITY WEBINAR

22.07.2025 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 […]

CATEGORY: Cyber Attack, Innovation, Safeguarding, Security

CATCHING THE SCAMMERS

03.06.2025 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 […]

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

DESIGNING RESILIENT SOFTWARE

12.05.2025 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 […]

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

A FOOL-PROOF GUIDE TO AVOIDING IT SPECIFIC SCAMS

01.04.2025 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 […]