Veilid - One to watch!

Veilid - One to watch

There was an
article recently published in The Register discussing how stupid some of the provisions are in the current Online Safety Bill, and in particular the U.K. government's desire for tech companies to design in back-doors into their end to end encryption capabilities.

Within that article is a good description about a new networking framework,
Veilid. A peer to peer network that doesn't rely on masses of dedicated networking infrastructure has many attraction.

This is going to be a game changer if it gains traction and app developers begin to incorporate Veilid into their apps. Veilid uses the low level protocols of TCP, UDP and Websockets, which are widely supported and understood, removing barriers to its adoption and deployment. The open source project has made developer friendly resources available on GitLab.

The slides presented at DefCon, are also available through this
link.

Responsible AI Private Dinner for IT Leaders

Responsible AI Dinner

We recently helped organise and facilitated a private dinner for a City-based Law firm on the topic of Responsible AI.

14 senior IT Leaders drawn from a broad range of sectors joined us for dinner and a peer to peer discussion on the challenges and issues associated with adopting AI responsibly. The discussion was held under Chatham House rules so there is limited attributable information that can be disclosed. However, we have drafted some more general notes on the topic of generative AI and harnessing it responsibly which can be shared with our clients on request.

We were fortunate to have one delegate who generously made access available to their Beta AI demonstrations which can also be made available to clients on request.

The mega rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT

I have been testing out the free version of ChatGPT (3.5) and it is impressive, I can see why Microsoft is investing billions of dollars to acquire 49% of the company. One metric often used to describe the growth and market adoption of a product is the time to reach 1 Million users. These numbers may be of interest:

Netflix - 3.5 years Facebook - 10 months Spotify - 5 months  ChatGPT - 5 days

The White House publishes FACT SHEET: The Second International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit

The U.S. White House facilitated a summit of 36 countries and the EU for the Second International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) Summit which was held between the 31st October and 1st November, 2022. The summit outcomes and initiatives are summarised in the White House's Fact Sheet which can be found here.

The closing remarks made by the US administration's National security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, can be found
here.

European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) - Annual threat landscape report

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has just published (on the 3rd November) their 10th Annual Threat Landscape Report.  In their own words “It identifies the top threats, major trends observed with respect to threats, threat actors and attack techniques, as well as impact and motivation analysis. It also describes relevant mitigation measures.”
 
I find it makes interesting reading although at a 150 pages long it is not for everyone.  

It is a well-structured document and the sections likely to be of most interest are Annex A, “Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK Framework” and Annex D, “Recommendations”, which cross references them to the relevant ISO standards as well as NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). If nothing else these can act as a good aide memoire / checklist.
 
The document can be downloaded directly from ENISA’s website
here.

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