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IT governance

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Traditional financial services firms face extinction within 12 years

  A large number of large banks could disappear within 12 years unless they change business models and economics

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  British Airways data breach worse than thought

  British Airways has admitted that up to 185,000 more people than first thought may have had personal details compromised in August’s data breach

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Government can’t guarantee no-deal Brexit data-sharing agreement

  Digital minister Margot James says there is no clear timetable on when the UK will secure a data adequacy decision from the EU, and cannot guarantee an agreement will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs

  Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity

  Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  UK will unilaterally tax web giants, says Hammond

  Chancellor threatens to go it alone on tax reform for digital services businesses if an international agreement cannot be reached

• September 30, 2018 30 Sep'18

  Openreach completes largest Tupe transfer in history

  More than 30,000 BT employees have transferred across to the quasi-independent Openreach, completing what is thought to be the largest one-off Tupe transfer in history

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Fraser Ingram, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank

  Fraser Ingram joined the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking group as CIO just at the right time – as it was embarking on its digital journey

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Two-thirds of emails not clean, says research

  Two-thirds of emails don't make it to the inbox because security systems consider them unsafe, according to research

• September 07, 2018 07 Sep'18

  Senior civil servants address TechUK smarter state theme

  Senior government officials spoke at a TechUK “smarter state” event, revealing ambitious AI policy alongside a “back to basics” drive to get data right

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  TSB CEO out after months of IT problems

  TSB’s CEO, Paul Pester, is stepping down after the bank and its customers were beset by another round of IT problems

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  US and UK days away from European Parliament ultimatum to suspend data transfers to the US

  Threat to Privacy Shield as the European Union and US approach a critical European Parliament deadline to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Improving security is top driver for ISO 27001

  Organisations are implementing the ISO 27001 standard in recognition of the fact that cyber attacks are increasingly inevitable and that it is best to be well-prepared to fend off attacks and mitigate their effect

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  IT leaders at a crossroads as they grapple with digital technology

  CIOs have the opportunity to influence their company strategy as digital technology reshapes business. A survey of CIOs across 70 countries charts a path for IT leaders through emerging technologies