When IT Meets Politics

September 2012

• New Minister brings outbreak of common sense to UK Communications policy

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 30 Sep 2012

The ability to demonstrate progress in delivering services, not just promises, may be sufficient to tip the balance in those broadband notspots where the consequent educational and economic are as ...

• Which cyber-topics will feature at the Party Conferences

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 30 Sep 2012

This indicated the scale of change in prospect as we attempt to refine gold standard information from the toxic sludge that is current public sector "Big Data" in support of better targetted services.

• Time to to prepare for the "insourcing spring" of 2013

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 10 Sep 2012

Those who do not help Local Authorities achieve their cost-cutting objectives next spring are unlikely to still be in the market come the time of the next General Election. Waiting for this ...

• New DCMS minister releases evidence of BDUK failure

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 08 Sep 2012

hope that the release of the progress report indicates that the new Minister is clearing the decks for a shared (with other departments including Treasury) policy review which sees ubquitous ...

• CESG has indeed produced a readable and succinct "Executive Companion" to Cyber Security

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 06 Sep 2012

The guide ...is a good check list for a corporate Chief Information Officer reviewing the objectives and budget of his Chief Information Security Officer CIO. Whether it is of much value to the CIO ...

• Will GCHQ give more serious guidance than the FCC?

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 05 Sep 2012

It going to support the effort necessary to mandate the use of security by design across the public sector (and its suppliers) and to support its adoption by major private sector players so that we ...

• Enjoy your right to surveillance on the scrutiny of the surveillance bill

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 04 Sep 2012

Glyn Wintle said that he would be far more concerned about the trustworthiness of those working for the ISPs collecting the data, or of any major data file linked to the Internet.