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Edinburgh Airport grounds flights due to IT issue

An unspecified IT issue affecting Edinburgh Airport’s air traffic control services provider has led to flight delays and cancellations
Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month

A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected
Jersey to get remote monitoring for vulnerable adults

Jersey’s Family Nursing and Home Care (FNHC) hopes remote monitoring service will help keep people out of hospital and support care at home
NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks

Three west London councils hit by a cyber attack continue to investigate as services remain disrupted nearly two weeks on
Constrained budgets left security teams short-handed in 2025

With 2024 seeing surges in security funding cuts, lay-offs and hiring freezes, 2025 brought some relief for cyber pros, but constrained budgets are leaving security teams short-staffed
Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies

Ryder Cup takes its best network shot

The Ryder Cup sets sporting and organisational bar higher than ever, depending on ‘an AI-driven connected intelligence platform’ to gain required real-time insights and intelligence
Inserting AI into cyber awareness

As industry looks to grasp the use of AI and automated features, how are security suppliers facing the challenge of adding these capabilities to their products and services? We talked to one provider to find out
Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO Checkout.com

Checkout.com’s CTO has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry – and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it

AWS launches Kiro IDE for real agentic development at scale- CW Developer Network

AWS used its re: Invent conference to announce Kiro, an AI IDE that helps software engineers move from concept to production through a simplified developer experience for working with AI agents. ... Continue Reading
AWS simplifies model customisation - CW Developer Network

AWS used its re: Invent 2025 conference to detail its work focused on simplifying model customisation to help developers build faster, more efficient AI agents. The company says that, now, Amazon ... Continue Reading
Don’t be a Scrooge when it comes to AI’s role in enterprise software- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Let’s assume that artificial intelligence (AI) delivers everything that is being promised. How will it alter the world of corporate IT, IT service providers and the deployment of commercial ... Continue Reading
AWS data & analytics VP: Charting new oceans, the evolution of data lakes- CW Developer Network

Data lakes represent an ocean of information resources… and much like our blue planet’s waters, many of the depths remain uncharted and occasionally mysterious. Our notion of data lakes has ... Continue Reading

From trust to turbulence: Cyber's road ahead in 2026

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.
In 2026, collaboration, honesty and humility in cyber are key

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.
UK's Cyber Bill should be just one part of a wider effort

New cyber legislation is necessary but a wider effort is needed to harden the UK's security and resilience.