When IT Meets Politics
Recent Posts
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A call to rebuild the Department for Education and Skills
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Sep 2021 -
Making a reality of Lifelong learning for the Digital Age
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Aug 2021 -
Ofcom risks sinking Government levelling up agenda
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Aug 2021
In the light of the forthcoming party conferences, and rumoured reshuffles, I hope the Government can quickly move on to making the UK once again a world-leader in technological education and ...
Lifelong learning is again fashionable. The on-line world is awash with on-line education and training materials from “uncurated” global sites such Udemy (155,000 offerings), through sectoral sites ...
The Openreach "Equinox" offer puts Government plans to expedite broadband roll out at risk. It jeopardises the roll out plans of Virgin, Vodafone, City Fibre, Hyperoptic and fifty or so players by ...
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Building back better "right to work" checks
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Aug 2021 -
Levelling up Digital Skills and Jobs in the Post-Lockdown Economy
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jul 2021 -
The Changing UK Cyberpolicing and Cyberskills scene - an update
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Jul 2021 -
How do we win back digital adolescents recruited to the Dark Side during lockdown?
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Jul 2021 -
Do video games breed hackers?
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Jul 2021 -
Your opportunity to influence UK Post Lockdown Recovery Plans
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Jun 2021 -
Towards Joined Up Action on On-line Harms, Fraud and Cybersecurity
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Jun 2021
There is barely a week left to cement the improvements made over the past year and turn potential disaster into triumph by adopting the recommendations of the Better Hiring Institute for a smooth ...
The two most urgent recommendations (with added detail) are to prevent IR35 abuse and fraud (against independent contractors more than by them) and the planned Home Office reversion to paper based ...
The Covid Lockdown unleashed a torrent of employment and skills related fraud, as criminals seize the opportunity to loot the new programmes , as they did to the Individual Learning Accounts after ...
The Hacker Forum is one of the most welcoming, friendly and attractive "support" group for those stuck in their bedrooms, isolated from friends and school during lockdown and bored with home-learning.
The aim on Monday is to explore how the online wild west of gaming seemingly escalates young gamers from downloading simple cheat codes to launching full-scale DDoS attacks and even being involved ...
I therefore expect the skills recommendations to reflect those contained in my draft submission to the BEIS Select Committee enquiry , probably extended to cover the issues that have emerged , for ...
We have to join up the debate and put cybersecurity into business, economic and social context. Hence the importance of the Digital Policy Alliance and its groups.
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Lessons from the Post Office Horizon Case
- Winsafe Ltd 25 May 2021 -
From Talk to Action - Joining up Cyber, Resilience, Fraud and On-line Safety Skills.
- Winsafe Ltd 18 May 2021 -
One size does not fit all - current cyber security practice as revealed by the DCMS Breaches Survey
- Winsafe Ltd 07 May 2021 -
Opening the On-line World to Competition: The Penrose Report
- Winsafe Ltd 05 May 2021 -
How do YOU find and attract the Cybersecurity skills/talent YOU need?
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Apr 2021
The presumption of the machine functioning properly in practice, means that the prosecution can rely on the presumption that a computer was operating reliably at all material times. It needs to be ...
The current pipeline supplies less than half the demand. Most of that demand is not for full-time professionals with technical skills. It is for those with the people skills to manage business risk ...
The report is an excellent snapshot but it also illustrates why most business leaders (large or small) find it so hard to take cyber security seriously until it is put into the context of their own ...
But implementation will not be easy. This is particularly so with regard to introducing more competition to the digital industries where John calls for the new digital market unit’s up-front powers ...
Review the salaries you offer to Cybersecurity and Computer Science Graduates - unless your policy is to pay more for those implementing security by design. If you are worried about losing those ...