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IT management

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Weak IT and SecOps collaboration in ANZ opens doors to cyber attacks

  The weak collaboration between IT and security teams in Australia and New Zealand is exposing their organisations to data loss, business disruption and other potential consequences of cyber attacks

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Prison and Probation Service’s tagging ambition ‘outstripped its ability to deliver’

  HM Prison and Probation Service’s programme to transform the tagging of offenders has failed to deliver after software platform was scrapped

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Russia looks towards import substitution in its IT sector

  The exodus of Western IT companies from Russia and sanctions imposed on the country amid its military invasion of Ukraine are leading to shortages of IT and professionals in the sector

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CDO interview: Matthew Lawson, chief digital officer, Ribble Cycles

  The 125-year-old bicycle manufacturer is transforming its business with digital innovations such as live streaming and online personalisation

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CIO interview: Lee Cowie, chief technology officer, Merlin Entertainments

  The theme park giant faced an enormous challenge during Covid with its venues closed, but digital technology came to the rescue and is now opening up new opportunities

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Software house Mega achieves holistic SaaS security with Synopsys

  Mega International, a supplier of IT management software, turned to Synopsys’s Coverity and Black Duck products to reassure both itself and its customers that its software-as-a-service offerings were built to the best possible security standards

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  How digital twins can improve datacentre operations

  Singapore’s Red Dot Analytics has built an AI-powered digital twin platform that lets datacentre operators simulate their operations to manage their carbon footprint and energy consumption, among other uses

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Environmental social governance law enhances Danish tech’s impact

  A new environmental and social law in Denmark could help the country’s tech startup ecosystem to differentiate

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Security leaders call for more observability for cloud native apps

  New research highlights the challenges CISOs face securing modern, cloud native applications

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  How Pfizer is leveraging technology in healthcare

  Pfizer uses predictive modelling to recruit patients for clinical trials and supercomputers to identity candidate molecules that go into antiviral drugs, among other technology use cases

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  UKtech50 2022: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of over 250 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  CIO interview: Emma Frost, director of innovation, London Legacy Development Corporation

  The former Olympic Park in London has become a hotbed – and a testbed – for data and technology innovation that could have a wider benefit for the urban environments in which we live

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  How Police Scotland deployed mobile comms for integrated services

  Technology is core to Police Scotland’s 10-year plan to transform policing, and since 2019 it has worked with Motorola to roll out mobile comms

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Heineken puts employees in charge of their own careers with new HR system

  According to Sanne Noordam, head of SAP SuccessFactors in the Netherlands, companies need to look and listen more closely to the needs of employees in order to attract and retain them

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Singapore doubles down on quantum technology

  The city-state is shoring up its quantum talent and quantum device manufacturing capabilities in a bid to advance its knowhow in the emerging technology

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Majority of organisations are hiring more IT staff to work remotely

  IT leaders are increasingly recruiting staff to work remotely as changing working methods brought by the Covid-19 pandemic look set to stay

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Iceland’s natural and digital approach to healthcare disrupts global sector

  Iceland has the perfect blend of natural health remedies and tech startup entrepreneurship to shake up the world healthcare sector

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  UAE residents think 3D printing will have the most positive impact on society

  People in the UAE believe next-generation technologies such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence will become widespread in the country

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal

  VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market

• May 27, 2022 27 May'22

  NUS students learn to handle agitated patients through VR

  Medical and nursing students at the National University of Singapore’s medical school will soon don virtual reality headsets to learn how to handle agitated patients

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Consultation launched on datacentre, cloud security

  The government is seeking views on how to boost the security and resilience of the UK’s datacentres and online cloud platforms

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Executive interview: Miles Hillier, NatWest

  Retail bank’s digital channel development head talks about building a multi-channel customer experience

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Global business insurer saves 50,000 hours through RPA

  QBE started its robotic process automation journey in 2017 and has already saved 50,000 hours, enabling staff to focus on customer care

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Two-thirds of UK organisations defrauded since start of pandemic

  Nearly two out of three UK companies say they have experienced some form of fraud or economic crime in the past two years, according to a report

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Most CFOs being left out of ransomware conversations

  Barely a tenth of CFOs are actively involved in planning for cyber attacks, according to a report

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Dutch companies struggle to fill tech jobs

  There are plenty of IT job vacancies in the Netherlands, but a shortage of IT professionals

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  The barristers that broke their backs to break the Post Office’s shield of lies

  Computer Weekly spoke to the barristers at Henderson Chambers that fought the Post Office in the High Court to expose the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  SoftIron readies Sydney manufacturing facility

  Software-defined storage supplier SoftIron is making hardware appliances in Australia to improve supply chain resilience and address security concerns of government customers

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  IR35 reforms: PAC report blames HMRC for ‘widespread non-compliance’ in public sector

  The Public Accounts Committee has shared the findings of its report into the after-effects of the IR35 reforms coming into force in the public sector back in April 2017

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  New inquiry looks at the state of UK chips

  Foreign Affairs Committee is fishing for evidence in a new inquiry assessing skills, security and end-to-end semiconductor supply chain concerns

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  Most information and comms businesses plan to use homeworking permanently

  Proportion of UK employees deploying hybrid working rises from 13% in early February 2022 to 24% in May 2022, with the information and communication industry revealed as a hybrid working hotspot

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  ICO orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete all data about UK residents

  UK data watchdog fines facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5m for multiple privacy breaches. The firm, which offers services to law enforcement, faces growing pressure from regulators and legal action around the world

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Ransomware volumes grew faster than ever in 2021

  Verizon’s annual DBIR assessment of the security landscape highlights an unprecedented boom in ransomware volumes, to the surprise of nobody

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  Netherlands approves beyond-visual-line-of-sight inspection drones

  Drones can automate the traditionally challenging job of inspecting industrial sites, including hard-to-reach infrastructure

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  Government has no plans to review controversial court rules on computer evidence

  Government accused of ‘passing the buck’ and ‘not knowing what it is talking about’ after stating it has no plans to review court rules on computer evidence

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  Did the Conti ransomware crew orchestrate its own demise?

  Analysts examining the shutdown of the Conti ransomware syndicate suggest the cyber crime collective orchestrated its own demise

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  UKtech50 2022: The longlist of the UK's influential tech leaders

  Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2022

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  Reimagining the cities of the future in Finland

  New ideas around new space: Helsinki not only imagines, but can see, the cities of the future

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  How Ivanti views patch management with a security lens

  Bringing development, operations and security teams together will help organisations to improve their visibility of IT assets and vulnerabilities while keeping threat actors at bay

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Applying international law to cyber will be a tall order

  Many in the security community have voiced their support for the UK government’s ambitions to work towards agreement with other countries on the application of international law to cyber space, but not without some reservations

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Two-thirds of UK homes can now sign up to gigabit broadband

  UK broadband roll-out gathers pace over the first three months of 2020, with ability to sign up for gigabit access open to 66% of households.

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Third of organisations to outsource more IT amid talent shortage

  Cutting costs is not the main reason for outsourcing IT in the UK, according to a major study

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Microsoft drops emergency patch after Patch Tuesday screw up

  Microsoft fixed a certificate mapping issue that caused server authentication failures on domain controllers for users that had installed the most recent Patch Tuesday updates

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Former Welsh steelworks becomes ‘living’ cyber lab

  ResilientWorks security centre in Ebbw Vale provides an education hub for students and a testbed for industry

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Chinese cyber spooks exploit western sanctions on Russia

  The actor behind an ongoing Chinese espionage campaign targeting Russian defence research bodies is taking advantage of the Ukraine war in their phishing lures

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Government will legislate to protect access to cash amid digital revolution

  The government is giving the Financial Conduct Authority more powers to force banks to ensure cash withdrawal and deposit services are within easy reach of customers

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Defensive cyber attacks may be justified, says attorney general

  Speaking ahead of a speech at the Chatham House think tank, the UK’s attorney general has suggested defensive cyber attacks against hostile countries may be legally justifiable

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Top cyber criminal earnings outpace those of business leaders

  Cyber crime can pay significantly better than leading a FTSE 100 organisation, according to a report

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Nature of cyber war evolving in real time, says Microsoft president

  The past three months have seen the rapid evolution of the very nature warfare to incorporate cyber attacks, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the audience at its Envision conference in London

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Deliveroo accused of ‘soft union busting’ with GMB deal

  Smaller grassroots unions have criticised Deliveroo and GMB for making a “hollow” deal that will ultimately undermine workers’ self-organising efforts