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ISO 27001 controls for security and business continuity
Disruptions in IT and business operations are not a question of “if” but “when”, as shown last year during the CrowdStrike massive outage. Disruptions include infrastructure failure, cyberattacks such as ransomware, even natural disasters but, more often, human error. For these reasons, the ISO 27001 2022 standard includes two important controls related to information security…
Pavlo Burda
Understanding Social Engineering attacks at CHI 2025
This April, I’ll be presenting my research on social engineering attacks at the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Yokohama, Japan. CHI brings together a global community of researchers, designers, and practitioners who explore the future of how humans interact with technology. As the premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction, this…
Pavlo Burda
A new radical AI Policy for research and education
Radical changes require radical solutions. This is a new policy for the use of AI in research that will solve all current problems caused by the opposition against the use of AI in education and research. It is applicable as of today at Dutch universities.
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Training implementing ISO 27001 with certificate
If you work in a security team that uses the standard ISO 27001, it is useful to complete a formal ISO 27001 training so that you use the standard correctly. We are now offering a short course that covers the fundamentals of information security based on ISO 27001.
Sieuwert van Otterloo
The Utrecht Housing dataset: A housing appraisal dataset
Van Otterloo, S and Burda, P. 2025. The Utrecht Housing dataset: A housing appraisal dataset. Computers and Society Research Journal (2025), 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54822/QVHM1662 Abstract This paper introduces a real-world dataset for analysing and predicting house prices. The dataset consists of actual data on the Dutch housing market collected in 2024 for a total of 153…
Sieuwert van Otterloo