Esteban Prieto

There is growing realisation among IT leaders that artificial intelligence (AI) will become a powerful tool to help them tackle the challenges of driving digitisation at pace while handling a shrinking talent pool. Recent research has shown that AI has the potential to plug the skills gap in software development. Providers of robotic process automation … Leer más

A 25-year-old vulnerability that enables RSA decryption has been presented at the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. The paper, Everlasting robot: the Marvin attack, discusses how error message handling in SSL servers is still vulnerable to an RSA “padding mode” attack that was discovered in 1998. This attack fully breaks the confidentiality … Leer más

Successfully digitally transforming government rests on improving digital skills, embedding a culture of innovation and making public sector procurement more agile. At trade association TechUK’s Building the Smarter State event in London on 27 September 2023, government ministers and civil servants working at various levels of government spoke about the need for public sector digital … Leer más

CIISec, the Chartered Institute of Information Security, has secured funding from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to expand its CyberEPQ programme for the 2023-24 academic year. The CyberEPQ scheme was set up in 2022 and is the UK’s first and only Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in cyber security. It is designed to … Leer más

Additional research: Simone Bateson. IT support: Matthew Fowler. Interactive graphics: Sophie Hill One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, Nature, was the target of a two-year-long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-level political, commercial and intelligence connections, according to documents and correspondence examined by … Leer más

Lalo Luna, global head of strategy and insights at Heineken, is a man on a mission. Having developed a range of data leadership skills at blue-chip businesses, his priority now is to use that knowledge to help the brewing giant make the most of emerging technologies and the treasure trove of information the company holds. … Leer más