LUCA Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
LUCA GDPR 101: What you need to know On 25 May, the much talked about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), came into force. This new regulation has the primary objective of governing the gathering, using and sharing...
Cascajo Sastre María Using Smart Chatbots as an IoT interface IoT devices are expected to reach 20.8 billion in number by 2020, and most of the data they produce is best accessed while users are mobile. There are a number...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The impacts and benefits of telemetry in Industrial m2m processes Industrial m2m solutions apply to different fields of industrial processes and can be used in different ways instead of having clear use cases like other more traditional m2m solutions. The...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths participates in AMBER (“enhAnced Mobile BiomEtRics”) project ElevenPaths participates in the AMBER (“enhAnced Mobile BiomEtRics”) project since 1st January 2017 as an Industrial Partner. AMBER is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network under Grant Agreement No....
ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths Tackling Cybercrime: Three Recommendations for 2018 In 2017 we saw ransomware variants such as Wannacry wreak havoc across computer networks in the UK. Not only were these variants of malware almost impossible to remove from...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
Richard Benjamins. How to measure your data maturity? Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become very popular these days, and many organizations have started their data journey to become more data-driven and take automated, intelligent decisions....
LUCA How the fashion industry is applying Big Data and AI Season after season, retailers come up with loads of new products ready to hit shelves worldwide. While at one time, designers had no idea what their customers would like...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
