UXP Core release 1.14 wraps up the year 2020 for UXP product development. The release makes integration of REST services more convenient for both service providers and system integrators. It also enhances the management of UXP high availability setups for administrators.
2020 was an exceptional year. In cyberspace, however, it was business as usual with opportunistic attacks, wide attack surfaces and resilience being key in response. What we can learn from last year for 2021 writes Liisa Past, Cybernetica’s Head of Cyber Security Business Development.
When living in a society and interacting with others, we often have to prove to them who we are. We do this in order for the others to decide, whether to perform certain transactions with us, e.g., sell us something or allow us to use something. To prove who we are, we typically use our identity cards or other documents that state who we are and what we are entitled to.
The Estonian Rescue Board (ERB) registered a total of 1110 building fires in 2017 with direct damages of 7.2 million euros [1]. In 2018, a total of 50 people lost their lives in a fire and 102 were injured [2]. While the rate of fires per capita in Estonia is comparable to the Nordic countries, the rate of deadly fires is significantly higher [1]. As a part of the project “Machine learning and AI powered public service delivery”, we use machine learning methods to assess the risk scores and find significant features to help predict building fires in Estonia in order to prevent them.
The previous post addressed the legal implications of a federation of data exchange layers and introduced the Estonian-Finnish Bilateral Agreement. This last part of the blog series will take you back to State A and B and the technical issues they need to consider when federating State A’s UXP with State B’s X-Road instance.
As pointed out in the previous post, federating UXP/X-Road instances for cross-border process optimisation relies on a strong bilateral agreement between the respective Governing Authorities (GA) and other relevant governmental bodies.
Addressing the federation of Unified eXchange Platform (UXP)/X-Road1 instances is a fascinating exercise, which despite of the technical challenges, bears the promise of integrating business processes across national or federal borders. It’s easy to imagine federally governed states relying on federated UXP and/or X-Road infrastructure and see how this would be the basis for integrating different jurisdictions’ information systems and services for a user-friendly service delivery. This blog series walks you through the main steps to consider when federating UXP/X-Road national data exchange infrastructure.
Fighting a Crisis with Better Data
The year 2020 gave the world a global crisis - a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus strain named SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. The world turned to defeat this crisis with a novel toolkit - data-driven services.
Key highlights:
• clustering solution for monitoring;
• e-mail notification option for monitoring issues;
• more secure monitoring.
Information may be a valuable asset. Do you remember the movie “1917” where Lance Corporal William Schofield takes an incredibly dangerous journey through the front to deliver a message that helps saving thousands of lives? Or, in present context, if your company would be the first one to figure out the correct way to produce COVID-19 vaccine, this information would be of high value, indeed.