From IT Security to Cyber Security, have VSEs and SMEs misunderstood this paradigm shift?
The days when cyber attacks hit a few unlucky SMEs are over. Very profitable for cybercriminals because they are easier to attack than large groups, they have now become a prime target. In the last 12 months, 21% have been victims of a cyber attack. If the cost of these rarely exceeds €10,000, it can happen in very rare...
In only 5 years, In only 5 years, homo sapiens homo sapiens sapiens sapiens became became homo homo smartphonicus schizophrenicus
We provocatively titled our paper “homo smartphonus schizophrenicus” because the overwhelming digital attitude and perception of the people is at the antipodes of their normal native social and natural physical behavior… but with more smartphones than inhabitants and above 80% of the data accessed through those unsecured and invasive tools, this digital attitude is already changing, quickly, most people’s...
From “sapiens” to “stupidus”: if we neglect values, technological civilization risks plunging into barbarity – VIP interview with Vittorino Andreoli
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Vittorino Andreoli, the world-renowned psychiatrist, has been the director of the Department of Psychiatry of Verona - Soave and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has published dozens of essays. Among his latest published works we can mention ”Our Fears” (2011), ”Praise of Error” (2012, with Giancarlo Provasi), ”Money in the Head” (2012), ”Education...
This is another kind of sapiens that inhabits the planet – VIP interview with Paolo Benanti
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A Franciscan Friar of the Third Order Regular (TOR) - I was born on July 20, 1973. Lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University, I deal with ethics, bioethics and ethics of technology. In particular, my studies focus on innovation management: internet and the impact of the Digital Age, biotechnology for human improvement and biosafety, neuroscience and neuroscience. I try...
The communications future. 5G between benefits and cybersecurity challenges
The approaching days and daily habits will change substantially with the development of technology that will connect everything that surrounds us. With 5G networks, connections will be faster, things that play a role in day-to-day comfort will be connected, with benefits little understood or known to each of us.
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With a 20 years experience in IT&C, looking forward to strategical...
2019, 1st semester: Romania’s EU council presidency. A country under siege. Enormous upload volumes to cope, huge code injection attempts replacing “older techniques”.
At the date we will publish this issue of Cybersecurity Trends, Romania will have come to the end of its semester of the European Union presidency. In this time, a central role has been successfully played by the Special Telecommunications Service (STS), the State’s central specialized body in charge to organize, conduct, carry out, control and coordinate all the activities in the field of...
Ethics as the most formidable challenge in ICTs
Ethics is certainly one of the most debated aspects of the digital revolution, which will reach its apex with the implementation of the 5G technology, allowing most of the planet inhabitants to have a full-speed internet access. Ethic greatly depends on the social, political and religious context, and each country and organization will need to define which ethical code...
Welcome back!
Some eight months after the previous issue, we are delighted to provide you, dear reader, a new volume of Cybersecurity Trends. The two main topics treated within this issue here are ethics in the digital world, as well as the human and technological tools of defence. Within the edition, we have a number of articles (many translated) that have...
