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ICT Institute speaking in De Balie on security Intelligence referendum
On 26 February, ICT Institute presented at a discussion evening in De Balie. De Balie is a well-known platform and center for freedom of speech, contemporary art, politics, culture, cinema and media, situated near the Leidseplein in Amsterdam. ICT Institute co-founder Floris van den Broek spoke about the technical aspects of obtaining personal information for…
Floris van den Broek
10 step guide for GDPR / Privacy compliance
Privacy is becoming a larger topic by the day, and there is a good reason for it. As of May 25 2018, all companies in EU Member States that interact with Personal Data have to abide by the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short, AVG in Dutch). Based on the 10-step summary by…
Joost Krapels
What are the Spectre and Meltdown threats?
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre. These issues apply to all modern processors and allow attackers to gain read access to parts of memory that were meant to be secret. To initiate a Spectre- or Meltdown-based attack, the attacker must be able to run code on the victim’s processor. What are Spectre and…
Floris van den Broek
ISO 27001 Training planned for 15/16 Oct 2018
Due to the success of the recent training Lead Auditor training ISO 27001, we will organise another session in April 2018. The training is not only for auditors, but for anyone who will be involved in ISO 27001 and students in this course have rated it top for both auditors, IT department members end users and…
Floris van den Broek
The new OWASP top 10 of security vulnerabilities
The Open Web Application Security Project is a very successful free initiative to make Internet Applications more secure. The best known OWASP project is the OWASP top 10, a list of the most common application security vulnerabilities. This top 10 is updated every four years, and the latest 2017 op 10 was published on November 20th.
Sieuwert van Otterloo