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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
UK Space Agency pumps £17m into tech projects

The agency is funding 17 different projects through its National Space Innovation Programme, including the design of an AI-powered satellite radar
Western coalition supplying tech to Ukraine prepared for long war

Russia is deploying hybrid warfare against Europe as western nations supply critical IT and telecoms equipment to Ukraine’s front line
Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation

National Police investigation into Post Office scandal uses IT infrastructure provided by Fujitsu
UK government pledges to rewrite Computer Misuse Act

Campaigners celebrate as security minister Dan Jarvis commits to amending the outdated Computer Misuse Act to protect security professionals from prosecution

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
A framework for software development self-service

Keeping software developers happy is an essential ingredient in IT project success. Developer self-service is the way forward, but with guardrails

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
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore tools-up for agentic AI software development- CW Developer Network

AWS used its re: Invent 2025 conference to announce new developments in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, its platform for building and deploying agents. In a world where we all want to know where AI ... Continue Reading

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.
Cyber's defining lessons of 2025, and what comes next

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.