When IT Meets Politics

January 2016

• More CISOs looking to recruit cyber-security trainers than leaders, analysts, engineers or testers

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 31 Jan 2016

Given than outsourcing decisions were claimed to be based on getting guaranteed access to subject matter expertise or lack of in-house skills, this implies a serious lack of awareness of the ...

• BDUK "state aid" to be brought into line with EU law and good practice

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 28 Jan 2016

There is, however, one very important missing question - arguably the most important of all: is the network being built and operated to common international standards: if so it can be completed, ...

• "The BIG Issue" - can DCMS safely ignore over 120 MPs protesting over constituency broadba[n]d

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 23 Jan 2016

Society is increasingly interconnected and dependent on reliable, resilient and ubiquitous on-line communications: from smart consumer devices and buildings to telemedicine and care. People will ...

• Investigatory Powers and Civil Liberties in practice: "Think of Cicero as Al Capone's Pocket Lawyer"

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 10 Jan 2016

little is said about the practical problems of obtaining reliable and admissable evidence, let alone convictions, whether to protect children or those in inner city (and occasionally suburban) ...

• What is at stake with the Investigatory Powers Bill?

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 09 Jan 2016

This is the first attempt in 500 years to bring the surveillance activities of the state under rule of law instead of "the prerogative of the crown". More-over the UK is one of very few states ...

• UK Digital Strategy - two weeks to give your views on how the UK will cross "the next frontier"

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 04 Jan 2016

The core to the strategy should be the removal of obstacles to co-operation across boundaries, inter-departmental, public- private, professional and sectoral before we go down in flurry of red ...