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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The concept of edge computing has evolved from the intention of addressing the disadvantages associated with cloud computing. In edge computing, cloud services and resources are brought closer to the end-users, enhancing the quality of service, reducing latency, providing high scalability, and lowering...

Economic espionage is a serious threat to the national security of all of the western-based economies as a segment of coordinated actions. The legal challenge from the state coordinated economic espionage is two-folded. First, there is no legal norm, standard, or principle that incriminates espionage at the international level. In...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The IoT is a growing concept with technical and socioeconomic importance. It is a cyber-physical ecosystem of interconnected services, devices (e.g., consumer electronics, sensors, actuators, etc.), and objects (e.g., vehicles, industrial and health components, etc.). The IoT merges the physical and cyber worlds...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Economic development has always played an important role in national security. Simply put, economic development determines a state's potential for warfighting. The economy, as an instrument of national power, depends on foreign investments, capital, market regulations, innovations, trade, human capital, etc. These factors...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]On May 17, The Portuguese Criminal Police’s Headquarters in Lisbon hosted the largest national event of the year dedicated to Horizon Europe’s Cluster 3 - Civil Security for Society, which was jointly organized with the Portuguese National Innovation Agency (ANI). This initiative aimed to...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] As part of the Sustainable Value Creation (SVC) Summit, which was focused on the creation of sustainable value for Space, Land and Ocean (Horizon 2020 projects) and held from 23 to 26 May at the Nova School of Business and Economics, in Carcavelos,...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the human-like intelligence exhibited by machines or software, as a field of scientific research (also called machine intelligence in the beginning) is almost as old as electronic computers are.New technologies, such as “Artificial Intelligence” and “big data” analysis, can be beneficial, for example, to quickly detect...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The firm “Cylance” is a pioneer as the first company to apply artificial intelligence in an antivirus program. They use mathematical approach for new malware, viruses, bots’ identification, utilizing patent-pending, machine learning techniques instead of reactive signatures and sandboxes. The machine learning research...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Currently a small number of tools that use artificial intelligence are commercially used for cyber defense, and up to now the most common are the expert systems. An expert system is a computer program that mimics the behavior of human specialists (that have...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Millions of citizens across Europe use the internet to find all kinds of information. Unfortunately, there are actors who use these tools to spread disinformation and manipulate public opinion, creating mistrust in science and legitimate governments and often leading to criminal activities. FERMI is...