In an ever-expanding and fully connected world of device-centric solutions, a significant amount of IoT/Embedded systems has been deployed in a plethora of environments. This adaptation of the recent advancements of the technological field in Embedded systems these recent years can be evaluated as quite hasty, focusing mainly on performance...

In our more-than-ever interconnected world, we are quite aware that cyber crises cannot be contained in one’s borders, and there is a similar case with this health-related crisis. Day by day, it becomes obvious that dealing with the covid-19 crisis, follows the same lifecycle as dealing with a cyber crisis...

Increasing the Netherlands’ DDoS resilience together, part III of III In parts I and II of this blog series, we introduced the concept of the Dutch Anti-DDoS Coalition and described the status of one of its pillars, the DDoS clearing house. Today, we’ll discuss the lessons we’ve learned and how...

Increasing the Netherlands’ DDoS resilience together, part II of III Last week, we spoke about the Dutch Anti-DDoS Coalition, how it came about and its goal of realising a cooperative DDoS mitigation strategy by using a combination of five instruments. This week, we’ll take a closer look at one of...

First lessons learned from setting up a national anti-DDoS initiative, part I of III The Dutch Anti-DDoS Coalition is a national consortium of seventeen organisations from various sectors (e.g. ISPs, banks, government agencies and law enforcement) committed to fighting DDoS attacks together. In this series of three blogs, we’ll first...

In the era of mass Web monitoring, users are being tracked and their behavioral data collected and used, typically for ad-targeting purposes. The tracking happens when users visit a publisher (first-party) to consume content (e.g., news, video, music, etc.), but it is performed by third-party entities such as online trackers,...

Nowadays we read in the media discussions whether or not to trust Huawei for our new 5G network. But isn’t this discussion focusing on the wrong question? Instead of questioning whether we can trust companies like Huawei, should we discuss whether we can trust 1) nation states, and 2) “boxes”...

Almost overnight, most companies had to severely limit physical access to their offices all over Europe. As more and more employees start working from home, connecting to their company network infrastructure, security becomes an immediate concern. Keeping IT systems up and running has never been more important than in this...