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Richard Taylor
CTO and Co-Founder at Approov Ltd
Chief Technical Officer with more than 30 years of industry experience. Background in compiler optimization and processor architecture, working more recently in application security and cloud computing technologies. Richard Co-Founded and is CTO of Approov Mobile Security (previously Critical Blue Ltd) and has led a number of innovative product developments in the area of EDA, software optimization and remote software attestation.
In part1 of this blog I provided an overview of the Meltdown and Spectre and in this blog I look at...
There is much to discuss in the wake of the security news flow last week. It was dominated by the...
Recently I was doing some API analysis on a video sharing app aimed at the teenage market. As is...
Yesterday morning security forums reported news that an AI researcher had published a dataset of...
(Image by Cory Doctorow licensed under CC BY 2.0) It's another sunny Scottish morning at...
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Popular Posts
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