Nixu Insights

Last week (16th to 20th of April) was all about Internet of Things here in the Nordics. Our journey started from the Nordic IoT Week 2018 event in Finland where many of the industry leaders in the area gathered to discuss and exchange ideas. We followed up with the Nordic StrategyForum event focusing on IoT in Sweden.

No technology has quite had the impact on society and business than that of AI as of late. It's becoming increasingly hard to find a domain where AI isn't either actively used or at least being researched. Naturally, for us security people, AI is both a tool and a new type of threat landscape.

This is the 4th part of our blog series "Things that security auditors will nag about and why you shouldn't ignore them". In these articles, Nixu's security consultants explain issues that often come up when assessing the security of web applications, platforms and other computer systems.

Recently a number of Dutch banks and government institutes suffered from DDoS attacks. Bank sites and payment services were not accessible for many hours.

Here is a quick checklist for you to go through and check how many of your users you are annoying with tedious registration and login processes.