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 […]
28.04.2025 Keep informed with the best online computer magazines. We’ve chosen and given you links to, what we think, are the top four reads. You can have a quick catch up or read in-depth about everything from influential people, cyber attacks, the best tech gear, gaming and what’s coming next. We’ve given you some headlines […]
15.04.2025 IAP Academic Connections & Student Membership. The IAP welcome student members. As a specialist professional body in the software development field, the IAP believe that well-designed software has a positive impact on industry, our communities and future. We feel it’s important to connect with academia in order to offer support to students who are […]
08.04.2025 IAP Membership is a Tax Deductable Expense HMRC List of Professional Subscriptions At a time when most of us are looking at year end expenses, it’s worth knowing that the IAP membership fee is tax deductable. To check this out for yourself you can find the IAP on the HMRC website’s list of Approved […]
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 […]
18.03.2025 The Child Trust Fund: A Legacy of Development and Redundancy. The Child Trust Fund (CTF) aspired to be a vision for financial security. It was a UK government initiative introduced by the then-Chancellor Gordon Brown in 2002. Designed to provide every child born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011 with a financial […]
11.03.2025 Celebrating Excellence in 2024. Jack Eatock was awarded the prestigious IAP Prize for the Best Software Project 2024 at the University of Plymouth. The honor was bestowed upon him by Alastair Revell, Director General and Trustee at the IAP and, Professor Alexander Belton, Professor of Mathematics and Head of the School of Engineering, Computing […]
