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When IT Meets Politics

Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.

February 2018

Who should the BBC "reflect, represent and serve"?
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 28 Feb 2018

The Ofcom review of the BBC role in reflecting, representing and serving the British public is central to the survival of both democracy and the establishment.

Is Brexit an existential threat to the new (including digital) Establishment?
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 26 Feb 2018

Uncontrolled Brexit is an existential threat to the British Establishment and the Westminster lobbying community

SearchCIO

The cloud-enabled workforce: Prepping IT staff for success

Experts predict nontraditional skills will be essential for the cloud-enabled, next-generation IT workforce. To succeed, employee...

Innovation leaders must learn to 'co-create' the future

Harvard's Linda Hill explains what makes leaders of innovation successful, starting with realizing their primary role is as stage...

CIO roles: Developing 'safe and sound' IT systems

Digital transformation is having a big influence on the evolution of the CIO role. For one CIO, responsibilities have expanded ...

SearchSecurity

NSS Labs ranks next-gen firewalls, with some surprises

Researchers used individual test reports and comparison data to determine the value of investments in next-generation firewall ...

Risk & Repeat: Closing the gender gap at cybersecurity conferences

In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the under-representation of women at cybersecurity ...

Security in Network Functions Virtualization

In this excerpt of chapter 4 of Security in Network Functions Virtualization, authors Zonghua Zhang and Ahmed Meddahi discuss ...

SearchNetworking

Big Switch taps AWS VPCs for hybrid cloud networking

Big Switch plans to roll out software for creating virtual networks in AWS and a private cloud. The hybrid cloud technology takes...

Understanding the exploit market: How data breaches happen

When you understand how data breaches happen, applying software patches quickly is crucial to minimize your chances of being on ...

New generation of network analytics software starting to emerge

Some of the newest network analytics tools can learn how a network is supposed to operate, warn managers of potential problems ...

SearchDataCenter

Four top open source SIEM tools you should know

Open source SIEM software offers organizations a way to test capabilities and augment existing functionalities for analytics and ...

Rackspace colocation program hosts users' legacy servers

Rackspace now has a managed colocation program that it hopes to upsell its customers with additional services, once their servers...

Broadcom acquisition of CA seeks broader portfolio

Broadcom has acquired CA Technologies in a move some believe is largely financially motivated, while others see an opportunity ...

SearchDataManagement

Focus, scope and spotting opportunity are key to role of CDO

Chief data officers and experts see the CDO role as changing to a more strategic orientation -- especially finding key ...

Good data quality for machine learning is an analytics must

As companies add machine learning applications, they need to really understand -- and be able to improve -- their data. That's ...

Chief data officer role: Searching for consensus

The chief data officer role is about many things -- regulations, innovation, AI and more. Consultant Randy Bean discussed the ...