June 2018

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Millennial versus Mature – who's the real IT security risk?

  Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had weaknesses though, mostly ...  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Amazon develops transgender resources for employees

  Online retail giant Amazon has launched a pack of resources to its UK employees to help make the workplace a more inclusive environment for transgender people  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  UK government cyber security standard welcomed

  The information security community has welcomed the publication of the government’s minimum cyber security standard, which could be used by any organisation to improve its cyber defences  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  GDPR exposes breach reporting flaws

  In the month since the GDPR compliance deadline, it has become clear that many organisations are not well prepared for personal data breach notifications, says PwC’s data protection lead  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Formula One switches from on-premise to machine learning on AWS

  Formula One plans to use advanced analytics to improve the data it can show to motor racing fans  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Cloud storage: Amazon vs Azure vs Google vs IBM Softlayer

  Computer Weekly looks at the biggest four cloud storage providers, how they stand in the market, the products they offer, and which offers the widest range of products and features  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Home Office criticised over ESN review progress

  In an appearance before the Public Accounts Committee, Home Office permanent secretary Philip Rutnam defended the progress of the ESN project review  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  IT On A Budget? Still Plenty Of Investment Money Around...

  IT is often two-faced and never more so than when it comes to the financial health of the industry. Speak to one set and they'll tell you how tight it is, scrapping for every penny of profit, and ...  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  UK police forces are not taking advantage of digital, says policing minister

  Embracing technology remains one of the biggest challenges facing UK police forces, according to policing minister Nick Hurd  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Openreach starts full-fibre roll-out in Exeter

  Network builder Openreach adds Exeter to its Fibre First FTTP broadband roll-out  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Who’s your Cloud Daddy developer daddy?

  Who’s your daddy? -- sang the Zombies in their 1967 hit Time Of The Season. Then came Ray Winstone in Scum in 1979, he was certainly the daddy. Fast forward to 2018 and who’s the daddy? Secure ...  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  NHS Digital signs three-year cyber security partnership with IBM

  Partnership with IBM aims to bolster cyber security responses and defences, including expanding NHS Digital’s Cyber Security and Operations Centre  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  UK biometrics strategy criticised for lack of content

  The long-awaited government biometrics strategy falls short of the mark, say critics, failing to provide a detailed and coherent strategy or governance framework  Continue Reading

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  British Muslim considers appeal after court rules repeated terrorism stops are legal

  Muzaffar Abdullah, a 37-year-old gas engineer who has been stopped and questioned by police at airports at least 10 times, is considering an appeal after being found guilty of wilful obstruction for refusing to answer questions under controversial ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Introducing Ukip’s meme team

  Somewhere deep in cyber space, a clutch of the internet’s more eccentric alt-right YouTubers have collaborated to join Ukip for a bit of attention, and the dotty old right-wing Eurosceptics have ...  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Supercomputing Wales partners with Atos and Dell to bring HPC to universities

  Deal will bring high-performance computing to four universities to drive research across various sectors  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Manufacturers, technology and the fourth industrial revolution

  A look at some of the innovations and technology investment focus areas for today’s manufacturing industry  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  TfL partners with Siemens to revamp traffic network for connected cars

  A traffic control system being developed by Siemens and TfL will propel traffic management into the era of the internet of things  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  First Lorca cohort to focus on security orchestration

  The first companies to benefit from the new London cyber innovation centre will focus on cyber security orchestration and automation  Continue Reading

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Google courts Hollywood creative community with Los Angeles cloud datacentre region

  Google is making a concerted effort to win over the media and entertainment industry with its cloud offerings by pairing the opening of a new datacentre region with services tailored towards Hollywood creatives  Continue Reading