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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Campaigners celebrate as security minister Dan Jarvis commits to amending the outdated Computer Misuse Act to protect security professionals from prosecution.
NCSC and BT block a billion dangerous clicks

A protective service jointly-developed by the NCSC and BT has disrupted over a billion potential cyber incidents by stopping members of the public from clicking through to dangerous websites.
HPE expands AMD collaboration to advance open rack-scale AI

IT and networking provider to adopt open, full-stack AI platform engineered for large-scale AI workloads looking to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity across massive AI clusters
Ericsson teams with LotusFlare to accelerate network API adoption

Partnership complements comms tech provider’s offering to expose and monetise advanced capabilities via APIs, providing common solution blueprints that describe typical integration scenarios
National security strategy failing to account for digital world

The UK government’s national security strategy is falling short on online matters, according to the independent reviewer of terrorism
Tackling AI and security at online fashion house Zalando

Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer

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
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
Can business software empower rather than control workers?

Acclaim Autism is a US organisation that has increased employee task discretion, with an increase in insurance approvals by using AI – but worker autonomy is declining across the UK

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
Digital ID providers are placated (again) as anticipation builds towards government consultation- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

Yesterday (2 December 2025) was the second time this year that a confused and – in some quarters – angry digital identity sector was given the opportunity to sit down with the government and ask: ... Continue Reading
AWS Frontier Agents saddle up to extend software development teams- CW Developer Network

Developers, developers, developers… right? Wrong, it’s now developers, developers, agentic service constructs designed to provide autonomous app design, code reviews and penetration testing that ... Continue Reading
AWS recalibrates data economics further with S3 Vectors, batch & Intelligent-Tiering - CW Developer Network

AI needs data, AI needs inter (and intra) data repository contextual linking and AI needs all of that with a whole menu of search types spanning contextual search, semantic search, SQL search and ... Continue Reading

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.
How headlines can drive change in cyber security

Big news stories can shift attitudes. There’s no doubt that insurance vendors and brokers are using major cyber attacks to promote their products, but can security teams also use it to help their businesses be better prepared?