Article together with prof. Tor Wallin Andreassen on "Big Data" and the issue of data ownerhsip. Written as a op-ed for the Norwegian business newspaper. "Dagens Næringslivs".
Impulsvortrag von Matthias Steinforth, Inhaber der Agentur kernpunkt.
Längst erstreckt sich E-Commerce nicht mehr nur auf den B2C-Bereich, sondern ist auch im B2B angekommen. Vor allem große Unternehmen haben die Angst vor dem E-Commerce abgelegt, bei KMU gibt es durchaus noch Aufholbedarf. Da wird oft auf etablierte Prozesse und Vertriebsstrukturen beharrt. Und die technische Infrastruktur, das entsprechende Know-how und Modelle für klar definierte Verantwortlichkeiten fehlen sowieso.
Wenn Unternehmen den Anschluss an den Markt nicht verlieren wollen, müssen sie jetzt die Weichen stellen, um auch den elektronischen Vertrieb ihrer Produkte zu ermöglichen.
Impulsvortrag von Matthias Steinforth, Inhaber der Agentur kernpunkt.
Längst erstreckt sich E-Commerce nicht mehr nur auf den B2C-Bereich, sondern ist auch im B2B angekommen. Vor allem große Unternehmen haben die Angst vor dem E-Commerce abgelegt, bei KMU gibt es durchaus noch Aufholbedarf. Da wird oft auf etablierte Prozesse und Vertriebsstrukturen beharrt. Und die technische Infrastruktur, das entsprechende Know-how und Modelle für klar definierte Verantwortlichkeiten fehlen sowieso.
Wenn Unternehmen den Anschluss an den Markt nicht verlieren wollen, müssen sie jetzt die Weichen stellen, um auch den elektronischen Vertrieb ihrer Produkte zu ermöglichen.
The Sovereign Digital Platform - Lecture at Altinndagen 2018Francis D'Silva
The talk presents the concept of the Sovereign Digital Platform as a foundation for building and evolving societal networks that facilitate collaboration between governments and businesses (private, non-profits and publicly owned).
The Sovereign Digital Platform - A Strategic Option for Societal DevelopmentFrancis D'Silva
This is a Short Paper presented at the ECIS 2018 Workshop on Public Sector Platforms (www.platformization.org)
http://www.platformization.org/Articles/dSilva_Sovereign%20digital%20platforms-final%20-%20ECIS%202018.pdf
Digitalisation of the public sector has emerged as a separate field, focusing on effective government and the provision of universal services. In this paper, building on the platform literature, we extend this perspective, suggesting that a particular class of platforms, which we call Sovereign Digital Platforms, can serve the needs of the public sector, but also contribute to efficiency and growth in the private sector.
Our empirical evidence is Altinn, a Norwegian public-sector platform, which was established in 2003. Altinn is more than a technical platform; it is also the core of a government-business ecosystem of innovation and participation, enabled by trust emerging from key public registers and their institutional custodians. We use the unique experience of Altinn to develop some key concepts of the Sovereign Digital Platform, and to discuss the implications for digitalisation policies.
Government as a platform - A historical and architectural analysisFrancis D'Silva
We frame our study with two perspectives; a historical institutional perspective that traces the roots of Altinn back to the Middle Ages, and an architectural perspective that allows for a more detailed analysis of the consequences of digitalization and the role of platforms. We offer two insights from our study: we identify three evolutionary mechanisms of national registers, and we discuss a future scenario of government platforms as “digital commons”
The Sovereign Digital Platform - Lecture at Altinndagen 2018Francis D'Silva
The talk presents the concept of the Sovereign Digital Platform as a foundation for building and evolving societal networks that facilitate collaboration between governments and businesses (private, non-profits and publicly owned).
The Sovereign Digital Platform - A Strategic Option for Societal DevelopmentFrancis D'Silva
This is a Short Paper presented at the ECIS 2018 Workshop on Public Sector Platforms (www.platformization.org)
http://www.platformization.org/Articles/dSilva_Sovereign%20digital%20platforms-final%20-%20ECIS%202018.pdf
Digitalisation of the public sector has emerged as a separate field, focusing on effective government and the provision of universal services. In this paper, building on the platform literature, we extend this perspective, suggesting that a particular class of platforms, which we call Sovereign Digital Platforms, can serve the needs of the public sector, but also contribute to efficiency and growth in the private sector.
Our empirical evidence is Altinn, a Norwegian public-sector platform, which was established in 2003. Altinn is more than a technical platform; it is also the core of a government-business ecosystem of innovation and participation, enabled by trust emerging from key public registers and their institutional custodians. We use the unique experience of Altinn to develop some key concepts of the Sovereign Digital Platform, and to discuss the implications for digitalisation policies.
Government as a platform - A historical and architectural analysisFrancis D'Silva
We frame our study with two perspectives; a historical institutional perspective that traces the roots of Altinn back to the Middle Ages, and an architectural perspective that allows for a more detailed analysis of the consequences of digitalization and the role of platforms. We offer two insights from our study: we identify three evolutionary mechanisms of national registers, and we discuss a future scenario of government platforms as “digital commons”
Innovation@altinn - Plattform for intraprenørskap hos norske virksomheterFrancis D'Silva
Presentation is in Norwegian.
Presents Innovation@altinn - an innovation programme aimed at generating ideas that can be prototyped by Norwegian enterprises - commercial, non-profit and public service.
The role of patient-portals in hospitals - EU-project "ICT in health"Francis D'Silva
Presenting an Accenture PointofView on the role of patient-portals for hospitals in Norway. The setting was a meeting of the EU-project "ICT in Health" and Diakonhjemmet Sykehus played host.
See ISFIT.org for more details
Theme for ISFiT 2011 "Global Health"
I presented during a plenary session (a summary of my plenary talk is on pg 38). Together with a collegaue, I ran a 1-day workshop on eHealth (Apps for eHealth) is described on pg 20
URL to this doc: http://www.isfit.org/assets/downloads/final.pdf
Case study of alumni-run solar energy project Francis D'Silva
Collaborating to deliver a proof-of-concept project around solar energy in off-grid networks. An alumni network, a solar energy social entrepreneur and a school in rural Maharashtra, India teamed together to implement a simple solar solution.
Lessons learned and a "how-to" description is documented in this case study.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.