What is AI ethics?

How do we make decisions? When we hire,  or when we decide what website to read for more information. Is it important to know how we made these decisions or what the results  were? Should a bank explain why they denied a loan? How about healthcare coverage? AI helps in this decision as well? Should … Read more

Better password policy: Complex? or longer passwords?

What is the better password policy? A longer password like NIST 800-53 says?   Key NIST password guidelines Minimum length of 8 characters and maximum length of at least 64 characters if chosen by the user. Allow usage of ASCII characters (including space) and Unicode characters. Check prospective passwords against a list that contains values … Read more

Patch Tuesday: Zero-day Vulnerability Fixes

Yes it was Patch Tuesday July9th (yesterday). This means Krebsonsecurity had a post describing all the action: The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080, a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. CVE-2024-38080 allows an attacker to increase their account privileges on a Windows machine. Although … Read more

Risk Management AI Framework by NIST

NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) has come up with an AI Framework – still a work in progress, but it is coming into shape with this 1.0 version.   There are many aspects to discuss, but the most important are… The Core of the framework:   “A Culture of Risk Management is cultivated and … Read more