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IT operations management and IT support

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Government launches £500k healthcare security plan

  A £500,000 funding pot from the government aims to help support small and mid-sized healthcare firms during the pandemic

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Government DPOs challenged by volume of GDPR work

  Data protection officers working across the UK government are finding it tough to keep up with the increased workload generated by GDPR, according to a report

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Artificial intelligence keeps HSBC ATMs stocked with cash

  HSBC is using artificial intelligence technology developed in-house to help it make sure ATMs are appropriately stocked with cash

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  Virtual London Tech Week is a sign of the future

  London Tech week's virtual event is another sign of how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Phishing scam targets Lloyds Bank customers

  Bank customers warned of emails and SMS messages that direct them to a fraudulent site and then request account log-in details

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  How Certis is digitising security operations

  Certis has developed more than 50 applications in a year to help employees do their jobs better and has set up an AI centre to tap the potential of robotics and video analytics in security

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  University of Staffordshire recruits robots to get more out of its people

  University staff were bogged down with administrative work, but will now have time to be creative

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  New Zealand activates security services as DDoS outage enters fourth day

  New Zealand government calls in its national cyber security agencies to help investigate a continuing cyber attack on the country’s financial systems

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Machine learning wards off threats at TV studio Bunim Murray

  TV studio behind reality hits including The Real World and Keeping Up With The Kardashians turned to Darktrace’s Antigena email protection service to keep its people safe from Covid-19 threats

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Financial services business leaders and CIOs disagree on IT infrastructure

  IT leaders and senior business executives need to align their technology infrastructure priorities as businesses attempt to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Carnival cruise lines hit by ransomware, customer data stolen

  Cruise ship operator is likely to be the victim of a major data breach after customer information is apparently stolen in a ransomware attack

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  The Security Interviews: How Crest is remaking the future of consultancy

  Crest president Ian Glover taught himself cyber security while working on government computing systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Now he is on a decade-spanning mission to change security consultancy models

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal

  Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs

  Almost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic process automation

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Government awards funding for innovation projects

  The funding for innovative projects forms part of the government’s plan to increase research and development spending, which it claims will aid the UK’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  How Dharma ransomware became an effective services business

  New research looks under the bonnet of a Dharma ransomware attack, with the ransomware's ease of use being particularly dangerous for small to medium-sized enterprises

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits

  Microsoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Security training body Sans Institute hit by data breach

  Around 28,000 items of personally identifiable data were lost in a phishing attack on Sans, proving that even the professionals can be caught out

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  NHS hit by thousands of malicious emails at height of pandemic

  The NHS received nearly 30,000 malicious emails at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in March and April

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Citrix users urged to patch five XenMobile CVEs

  Patches are available for CVEs 2020-8208 through 8212 and should be installed as soon as possible

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: Phishing lures pivot to exploit vaccine hopes

  Phishing emails are increasingly luring in victims with subject lines relating to the development of a vaccine for Covid-19

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Business leaders banking on technology to drive coronavirus recovery

  GDP and IT spending are down, but business leaders see technology as the way to go when it comes to coping with the global pandemic

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Five tips to lower S/4 Hana costs

  With budgets being squeezed, how can organisations on SAP ECC reduce the cost of switching to S/4 Hana?

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Five signs you’re about to get hit with ransomware

  A series of Sophos reports on the ransomware threat landscape shows how security professionals can sniff out a potential ransomware attack before it happens

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Liam Fox hack raises questions over government security

  The hack of a former cabinet minister’s emails casts doubt over the effectiveness of safeguards and security training processes at the highest levels of the British government

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Twitter confirms it was hit by targeted spearphishing attack

  Investigation into 15 July 2020 hack of a number of high-profile accounts by cryptocurrency scammers has found evidence of a targeted spearphishing incident

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

  Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Barclays CEO says Canary Wharf office set to stay despite home working success

  Barclays chief says the success of home working during the Covid-19 pandemic has taught the banks lessons, one of which is that major centres like Canary Wharf will remain

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  BASF partnership develops AI-powered smart mining

  A collaboration with IntelliSense.io is being used to power AI-based optimisation of mining processes

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

  Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Serious BootHole vulnerability puts millions of systems at risk

  BootHole is a GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability and puts millions of PCs, servers and other devices at risk of compromise

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

  Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Bank of Ireland fined for six-year-old IT breach

  Bank of Ireland fined by regulator for its failings to prevent fraud six years ago

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Investment in neurodiverse talent a win-win for security

  Current careers guidance and recruitment processes for security jobs are not working for people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia, but the problem is fixable with a little attention to detail

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

  Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Microsoft results show impact of tech-driven business resilience

  While economies are set to shrink, businesses are leaning on tech to support operations, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  New opportunities for Nordic startups post-Covid-19 as virtual offices become the norm

  As companies adjust to digital office life in the pandemic era, a host of Nordic startups are already helping them convert these short-term fixes into long-term strategy

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  TfL contracts Capita for London Underground section of emergency services network

  Capita will implement the network infrastructure that will enable the emergency services mobile network to work on the London Underground

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  Santander consumer arm to automate further after Nordic project

  Time and cost savings achieved by RPA pilot were high and customer experience improved, says bank

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Unified communications experiencing fastest growth ever in the midst of Covid-19

  Customer interest in UCaaS spikes 86% during the Covid-19 pandemic as firms across all industries modernise communications systems for the new normal

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

  Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global study on Covid-19 patients in intensive care

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Nordic CIO interview: Brede Nielsen, Avinor

  The Covid-19 pandemic put Avinor’s IT head at the centre of the airport operator's response

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Banks face fairness challenges as they commit to AI technology

  Banks working with artificial intelligence technology face governance challenges to ensure AI-based decisions are fair and ethical

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  What do Accenture’s UK job cuts mean to the IT services industry?

  Accenture's decision to reduce its UK workforce by 8% will not be the last in an IT services sector hit hard by the Covid-19 disruption.

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 123 bugs in July 2020 update

  The bugs start coming and they don’t stop coming; Microsoft has issued yet another bumper Patch Tuesday update

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  CISOs undervalued, overworked, burning out, warns CIISec

  The vast majority of security professionals say they are under immense pressure, according to a report