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June 30, 2026

The Evolving App Store Ecosystem

We are back with an update to appstoresoftheworld.com to reflect the evolving app store ecosystem. Commissioned by the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), we have now mapped a total of 155 stores, up from 111 when we originally looked at this in 2022. We have conducted this research to help inform how the environment is shifting, based on the data available. Globally, app stores...

App Stores

June 19, 2026

Mapping AI Security Standards

The UK Government’s AI Cyber Security Code of Practice was created by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and published in early 2025. This work was then used as the basis for the European...

January 21, 2026

Nearly 60% of IoT manufacturers have no way for security researchers to contact them

In 2018, Copper Horse conducted research for the IoT Security Foundation into the state of vulnerability disclosure amongst product manufacturers across the world. Measuring IoT and embedded systems security is quite a hard thing to do. Much of the protections (or lack of) are hidden...

IoT Security

October 17, 2025

AI Data Provenance – Historical Shorthand

Our CEO, David Rogers gave a talk at the Techworks AI event at Bletchley Park in early 2025. The talk goes into detail about Copper Horse’s research into 17th century shorthand. This started as a ‘toy AI model’ to exercise the TAIBOM project, to also...

August 5, 2025

Further Work on 17th Century Shorthand – Machine Learning for Palaeography

David Rogers explains our continued historical shorthand research work. Unfortunately I’m not in the US this year for the hacking conferences but I hope that next year I will be able to go and explain and demonstrate more of our groundbreaking work on reading 17th...

AI/History and security

April 29, 2025

Setting the Standard for Trustable AI: UK-Funded TAIBOM Project Launches Industry Review Phase

Organisations Invited to Contribute Use-Cases The Trustable AI Bill of Materials (TAIBOM), a UK government-seeded initiative, is rapidly emerging as a leading standard for building trust in artificial intelligence systems. As AI technologies are increasingly deployed in critical, sensitive, and high-risk contexts, TAIBOM delivers a structured,...

December 2, 2024

OpenUK Awards 2024

We were honoured to be shortlisted in the OpenUK awards this the year, the “oscars of open source”. Our CEO, David Rogers attended the annual awards dinner at the House of Lords on the 28th of November. The awards winners were the Linux Firmware Update...

Uncategorized

November 25, 2024

Vulnerability Disclosure in IoT: Not Even Halfway There

Copper Horse is pleased to present its report into the State of Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Usage in Global Consumer IoT in 2024. The report is now in its 7th year and has been used by companies and governments to gauge adoption of best practices...

IoT Security

May 16, 2024

Supporting British Skiing – the Copper Horse GBR Series

In April we announced our sponsorship of the GBR Series, the premier level of ski racing in the UK in both indoor and outdoor dry slope skiing. As a company we support excellence in all its forms and are passionate about developing the future. At...

skiing

April 29, 2024

Product Security Regulation Commences in the UK

A lot of people have been waiting a long time for IoT security to be regulated. Today marks that day. More details and a quote from our CEO, David Rogers can be found on DSIT’s website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-protect-consumers-from-cyber-criminals-come-into-force-in-the-uk

IoT Security

Copper Horse specialises in tackling future security challenges across many domains and industries from AI, automotive, mobile and IoT. We provide a wide range of services including engineering solutions throughout the product lifecycle from requirements to product security investigations. We offer security training and have a huge range of consulting expertise to help in areas such as mobile telecoms and connected products security. If you have an interesting and complex security problem, we are here to help.