Category: Blogs
The Attributer’s Blog – Autonomous
Gartner tells us in its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019(1) that autonomous things are number one in the list. Autonomous things use artificial intelligence (AI) to perform tasks traditionally done by humans. We are talking robotics on a new level of sophistication and with greater levels of autonomy than seen in previous generations of robot technology. The types […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Provenance Assured
“Trust but verify” – Russian proverb. Earlier this year The Attributer published an article entitled ‘Fake Protected’. This new article revisits the same topic but from a different perspective. We are living in a time of increasing outbreaks of ‘fake news’ in particular, and ‘fake information’ in general. How do we establish the provenance of data and the information that […]
A Brief History of SABSA: Part 3 – The SABSA Institute is Born
The Short History of SABSA had reached the year 2005 in my last blog. Now it’s time to finish the story and bring it up to date. I first need to retrace my steps back to 2003 for a moment. David Lynas and I had been working for QinetiQ from 2001 to 2002. It was a short spell of full […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Quantum Ready
Quantum Cryptography Revolution Are you ready for the quantum revolution in secure communications? OK, so you’re not ready. Don’t panic, it’s still a long time coming. However, it is useful to be cognizant with the latest cryptographic developments and to get a glimpse of what is coming over the horizon. These developments will change the way we do things in […]
A Brief History of SABSA: Part 2 – An Evolving Framework
Six months ago we launched this blog with a brief history of how SABSA was born. Now with the launch of the new SABSA Institute web portal with full membership facilities, it’s time to pick it up again and tell the story of what happened next. During 1996 I was working mostly for S.W.I.F.T., assisting Erik Guldentops, Director of Global […]