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Virgin Money adapts offices for flexible working

Virgin Money is repurposing its offices to fit a future where staff will work from home and visit offices to collaborate
Bank of Ireland fined €24.5m for business continuity failures

Bank of Ireland hit with multi-million euro fine by central bank following an investigation
Serious violence duty in PCSC Bill would gut UK data rights

Proposed data gathering powers for UK police could override existing data protection rules, damage citizens’ trust in essential public services and further entrench discriminatory policing practices
NUHS to tap edge supercomputing to crunch AI workloads

Singapore’s National University Health System will tap edge supercomputing resources to train AI models in a range of healthcare-related AI applications by mid-2022
AWS throws down the gauntlet in private 5G sector

Many analysts forecast that 2021 would be the year of private 5G. Now such predictions have received an almost royal seal of approval with the launch of AWS Private 5G
IR35 reforms: Contractors report widespread blanket bans

A poll of more than 3,000 contractors about how the roll-out of the IR35 reforms affected them brings to light widespread use of blanket bans

Swedish researchers are patiently developing a useful quantum computer

By 2028, the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology in Sweden expects to have a useful quantum computer
How advanced comms can gain an edge in the post-pandemic world

Advanced communications not only connects the real world to the digital world, but also enables a hybrid and more environmentally friendly world of work
Ensuring hybrid work works in the new normal

The hybrid business is becoming a reality, but how can firms ensure a positive employee experience and learn how to identify and manage risks?

AWS re:Invent 2021 - CTO Dr Werner Vogels keynote - CW Developer Network

AWS kept crowd-favourite CTO Dr Werner Vogels’ keynote to the closing day of re:Invent 2021. Wogels took the stage after a personalised ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’ style video intro. ... Continue Reading
AWS re:Invent: Inside AWS Cloud Developer Kit CDK Patterns- Open Source Insider

Developers build applications. Developers also build web, embedded, server-side and deeper system-level code streams that all rank as applications. Also, for now, developers build cloud ... Continue Reading
Overcome the security talent shortage by addressing your tech stack- Eyes on APAC

This is a guest post by Graham Pearson, vice-president and general manager for ANZ at Lacework Australians will spend approximately $5.6bn on cyber security alone this year, according to AustCyber, ... Continue Reading
AWS re:Invent - Hycu previews Protégé app-aware data protection- CW Developer Network

Cloud data backup and recovery as-a-service (Ed: is that DBRaaS?) company Hycu has joined the AWS 2021 partner news throng by announcing a preview of its Protégé for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Continue Reading

Security Think Tank: Think people, processes and systems

Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they’ve taken away from the past 12 months
A ‘whole of society’ approach to cyber may be on the horizon

Nominet Cyber managing director David Carroll reflects on the NCSC’s latest annual review amid 2021’s fast-evolving threat landscape
The way we talk about tech is crucial to solving skills shortages

Companies are looking to short-term fixes to find IT specialists, but there is still a need for long-term solutions