AQCLab has renewed its ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for software and data quality assevaluations based on the ISO/IEC 25000 series of standards. AQCLab remains the first and only laboratory accredited for this type of evaluations.
ENAC/ILAC accreditation provides confidence both in the competence of the laboratory and its staff to deliver reliable results, and in its ability to provide a service appropriate to the needs of its clients. To obtain and maintain accreditation, the Spanish accreditation body ENAC carries out audits to check that the laboratory has the technical competence through the availability of qualified personnel, adequate equipment, appropriate working methods and quality criteria for the management of its activity.
For companies, trusting in a laboratory that ensures maximum technical competence is essential to guarantee the reliability of their products, minimise risks and increase the confidence of their customers as well as the acceptance of their products in other markets.
Based on the results of the assessments performed by AQCLab, our clients can obtain a quality certification in accordance with ISO/IEC 25000. If your company is interested in assessing the quality of your software products or data, please contact us via the following link.
Mario Piattini, scientific director of AQCLab, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). The distinction was presented by the president of the UNLP Martín López Armengol, together with the dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Marcelo Naiouf. The ceremony took place within the framework of the XI Jornadas de Cloud Computing, Big Data & Emerging Topics (JCC-BD&ET) organised by the Faculty of Informatics.
López Armengol highlighted the recognition of Mario as an entrepreneurial professional with a great trajectory in the academic and scientific field and in his work in technology transfer, with important contributions to spin offs that are committed to social innovation from technology-based companies.
Mario stressed that "it is an honour to receive this recognition from the UNLP" and that "it is a boost to continue working in the field of information systems, seeking to improve their quality and sustainability to ultimately improve the quality of people and society".
AQCLab and IMQ Ibérica have reached an agreement to promote and improve the quality of software and data with ISO/IEC 25000.
To this end, AQCLab, as the first and only laboratory accredited internationally by ENAC/ILAC, will carry out software quality and/or data quality evaluations. Subsequently, IMQ Ibérica, as an international certification body, will be responsible for auditing the companies that wish to certify their products and, based on the laboratory's report, issue a certificate for the quality of the software product and/or data.
Thanks to this agreement, IMQ Ibérica and AQCLab will collaborate to provide service to practically all sectors where software and data quality are of vital importance for their business today.
Yesterday, 18 May, our colleague Javier Verdugo defended his PhD thesis entitled "Cyberdata: evaluación y certificación de la cibersguridad de los datos" (Cyberdata: assessment and certification of data cybersecurity).
This thesis, directed by Moisés Rodríguez and Mario Piattini, director and scientific director of AQCLab respectively, proposes an environment for the assessment and certification of cybersecurity specifically focused on data, adapting the international standards ISO/IEC 25012, ISO/IEC 25024 and ISO/IEC 25040.
Our thanks also go to the members of the doctoral thesis tribunal, Javier Garzás from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Marian Moraga from UCLM and José David Patón from SimulaMet (Norway).
AQCLab AQCLab has collaborated with the Alarcos Research Group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Deusto in the paper Let’s do it right the first time: Survey on security concerns in the way to quantum software engineering, published in volume 538 of the journal Neurocomputing.
With the advent of quantum computing, new quantum-specific development languages and platforms are emerging. With them, the first security vulnerabilities that may affect them are also beginning to be identified.
This paper presents a review and analysis of these first emerging security vulnerabilities, which could hinder the progress of quantum computing, as well as its transition and development in the industry. In this way, and following the experience in classical software development, the static analysis testing technique is analysed as a possible candidate to improve security in quantum software development.
Being aware that there is currently a lack of tools, techniques and knowledge necessary in relation to quantum software development, the paper sets out the first steps of what would be a roadmap to ensure secure quantum software development.
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