Lara Olszowska

Lara is a freelance reporter with bylines in the Standard, The Guardian, Business Insider, Women in Journalism, The Stack, and more. Lara is always looking for a story and a creative way to tell it.

BoE, Deutsche Börse, Fidelity on the challenges of maintaining security without sacrificing innovation

BoE, Deutsche Börse, Fidelity on the challenges of maintaining security without sacrificing innovation

"That’s definitely the hottest topic right now in tech for us across the bank,”

Lara Olszowska November 16, 2023

Mercedes Benz' IT manager on coding automation, "Developer Happiness"

"I learnt very early on in my career, a fool with a tool is still a fool."

Lara Olszowska November 16, 2023

CISO

GitHub

developers

Mike Hanley, CSO, GitHub on “guns, gates, guards”, AI, ignoring the “flashy stuff”

"You have to be intentional about designing for real people who are not security experts."

Lara Olszowska November 14, 2023

“Security is a full contact sport”: Aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corporation CSO Robert Daugherty

CISO

GitHub

Cybersecurity

“Security is a full contact sport”: Aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corporation CSO Robert Daugherty

"We operate with the assumption that a sophisticated nation state threat actor is always active inside the organisation"

Lara Olszowska November 12, 2023

GitHub

developers

News

"Refounded" GitHub boasts new AI tools to spot insecure code in real-time, let devs use natural language

“Our model targets the most common vulnerable coding patterns, including hardcoded credentials, SQL injections, and path injections" says "refounded" company.

Lara Olszowska November 09, 2023

India to have the world's most developers on GitHub by 2027

Report also captures rapid growth in Python use and an explosion in AI projects.

Lara Olszowska November 08, 2023

Meet the female founders disrupting tech in Estonia and beyond

A former innovation manager for a major bank, a scientist with over a decade of research experience and a general manager of multiple restaurants and cafés. These three women may have different career backgrounds, but all identified problems in their respective sectors and are solving them with tech. As shocking...

Lara Olszowska October 09, 2023

E-stonia: How the Baltic minnow became a tech powerhouse

digital transformation

central government

Opinion

E-stonia: How the Baltic minnow became a tech powerhouse

Automatically generated government services? 0% tax on reinvested profits? The most unicorns per capita in Europe? Estonia's a technology powerhouse in the Baltics. Lara Olszowska went to find out how it did it...

Lara Olszowska September 12, 2023