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Young Talents in the Spotlight - Internship as a Software Tester

Published on March 11th, 2019

The season of internship is about to start, and many students are looking for future career opportunities. It’s very important to us, at Cybernetica, to get to know our potential team members.

To shed light on our interns’ experience, and give some insight into, what it’s like to go through internship at Cybernetica, we put together a blog series. In this post, we’ll focus on the position of Software Tester. We will talk to our interns, and full-time employees now, Evelin and Siim, who were so kind to share their stories. So, let us guide you through their expectations, thoughts, and results from the internship.

Saving 1407 Years of Working Time in Estonia

Published on February 14th, 2019

The Estonian data exchange system, called X-Road, helped Estonia save 1407 years of working time last year alone. This is up from 804 years in 2017 and Cybernetica, the European cyber security company behind the solution, is helping countries across the globe achieve the same.

How Privacy Enhancing Technologies Affect Business Processes

Published on January 29th, 2019

Deploying secure multiparty computation techniques is seldom a straightforward replacement of how things are done at the moment and enable collaborations considered impossible so far. It is a complex process as privacy requirements, and technological solutions are deeply interleaved. Hence, we need tools to weigh the options and discuss changes in a process in an easily understandable manner.

Would You Spot the Latest Phishing E-mails?

Published on November 26th, 2018

www.аpple.com is not the same as www.apple.com. The difference is down to the letter “a”. The real www.apple.com uses a Cyrillic “a”, while an identical-in-your-browser ASCII “a” (U+0061) is used in the other. Scary, right?

7 Guidelines for Risk Management

Published on November 12th, 2018

Information security management, risk assessment and risk management get a lot of attention in the business circles - so much so that sometimes it seems a tower too high to climb. We have listed seven practical guidelines to take into account regarding information security in any company.

Risk Assessment - Science or Art?

Published on October 29th, 2018

In our everyday lives, we have to manage risks constantly. Going down the stairs there is a possibility to slip and fall, riding a car may get you into an accident, the groceries you buy may be out of date and give you food poisoning.

And yet, despite all the risks, you do take the stairs, get into a car and eat. Why on Earth?

Can Toddlers Use Digital Identity?

Published on October 15th, 2018

Recently, during an eID ecosystem demo, a presenter took the Estonian national eID card of her two year old toddler and did log into the Estonian State Portal - to demonstrate the endless possibilities of Estonian eID ecosystem to our honourable guests. These possibilities are endless, indeed.

With Great Science Comes Great Infosecurity

Published on October 1st, 2018

Some 20 years ago Bruce Schneier warned against creating your own cryptographic algorithms at home. The original story was titled “Memo to the Amateur Cipher Designer”. The popularity of the topic has not fallen since then, and the Google search “Never roll your own encryption” will still result in multiple hits.