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IT project management

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  Banking regulatory body wants a ‘tripwire’ to flag APP fraud

  Banking code of practice organisation wants banks to monitor where authorised push payment scammers are sending stolen money

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  EDF increases GIS software use at Hinkley Point C nuclear power site

  EDF is increasing its use of a geographic information system from Esri to get a central view of construction data in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station project

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  ‘Profound’ digital pound decision faces policymakers

  The UK Treasury has launched a consultation paper to help lay the foundations for a ‘profound decision’ over a digital currency

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Benelux CIO interview: Marijn Grevink, leader of digital transformation, Mars

  In an interview with Computer Weekly, the digital head at Mars, Marijn Grevink, takes the wrapper off digital transformation at the company in the Netherlands

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  MoD needs to transform to succeed with digital strategy, says PAC

  A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report says the department is ‘not well setup’ to effectively implement its digital change, and calls for both a cultural and organisational shift at the Ministry of Defence (MoD)

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry

  Two former Fujitsu IT professionals being investigated for potential perjury will face Post Office Horizon public inquiry in May

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Noventiq eyes APAC IT services market

  IT services provider Noventiq has been expanding its presence in APAC through several acquisitions in India, and is eyeing a bigger slice of the region’s IT services pie

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Nationwide Building Society CIO to join Co-operative Bank

  Gary Delooze to join Co-operative Bank as CIO after six years heading up Nationwide Building Society’s IT department

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

  Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  DataCore software-defined storage helps car firm avoid breakdowns

  Bontaz used to face regular IT outages that took too long to recover from. Then it got DataCore software-defined storage and the ability to rapidly recover from downtime

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Outdated IT infrastructure poses growing risk to UK Security Vetting

  Delays to UKSV’s important work in safeguarding the country’s national security are in part down to a legacy IT estate in dire need of modernisation, says the NAO

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Swedish government launches accelerated digitisation plan

  The Swedish government has launched a four-year plan which will help to digitally transform the country’s public sector

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Advisory board goal for Post Office scandal victims to be returned to rightful financial position

  The board set up to monitor the compensation scheme for Post Office scandal victims agrees goal of returning them to the financial position they would be in had the scandal never happened

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  Benelux CIO interview: Richard Ventre, SHV Holdings

  In his role at Netherlands-based SHV Holdings, Richard Ventre is tackling the challenge of enabling a diverse set of digital transformations across a range of industries

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  Crest throws support behind CyberUp CMA reform campaign

  Cyber accreditation association Crest International has lent its support to the CyberUp campaign for reform to the Computer Misuse Act of 1990

• January 13, 2023 13 Jan'23

  Cabinet Office looks to expand public data sharing for digital ID

  Cabinet Office seeks feedback on proposed legislation to enhance data sharing across the public sector, in support of the UK government’s ambition to have a single sign-on identity-check system for all public services

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  UK government completes trials of age estimation technology

  Government-led trials of age estimation and verification technologies for the sale of alcohol in nightlife venues and supermarkets have been completed, with both government and retail lobbyists pushing for legislation that would allow retailers to ...

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Former subpostmaster Alan Bates, who ‘pulled up trees and moved mountains’, turns down OBE offer

  Alan Bates, who fought for decades to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, says it would be inappropriate to accept an OBE when former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells still holds her CBE

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Nordic IT articles of 2022

• December 28, 2022 28 Dec'22

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 Middle East IT articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux articles of 2022

• December 23, 2022 23 Dec'22

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services IT articles of 2022, looking back at the moves and changes over the past year

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  TSB hit with huge fine after IT migration disaster

  TSB has been fined nearly £50m due to failings during its IT migration catastrophe

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 software development stories of 2022

  We look at how software development has adapted to the changing economic climate over the past 12 months

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Criminal Cases Review Commission calls on more convicted subpostmasters to come forward

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission wants more former subpostmasters to come forward if they think they were prosecuted by the Post Office based on data from the error-prone Horizon computer system

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Ethical hackers flex their muscles in 2022

  Ethical hackers working through HackerOne programmes found 21% more vulnerabilities in 2022 than in 2021

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  New cyber approaches ease Registers of Scotland’s AWS migration

  As the holder of the oldest national public land register in the world, Registers of Scotland has a storied history dating back centuries. Find out how Palo Alto Networks is keeping its processes and data secure as it goes all-in on Amazon Web ...

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  NAO: BBC digital transformation plan at risk from lack of resources

  Financial watchdog warns broadcaster that it may lack resources to achieve its desired digital ambitions, with particular worry over best practice in acquiring, storing and securing personal data and potential exposure to reputational risks

• December 09, 2022 09 Dec'22

  IT system limitations a factor in passport delays

  Limitations in the UK’s passport office IT system led to delays in applicants receiving their documents during a recent period of high demand

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Post Office scandal – “cock-up or cook-up”?

  The second phase of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal raised more questions over who did what, when and where, with shocking revelations at every turn

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  Legacy IT magnifies cyber risk for Defra, says NAO

  Some 30% of Defra’s applications are currently unsupported, magnifying cyber risk as the government department struggles to make progress on a digital transformation programme

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers

  Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s ...

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  Finland connects a quantum computer to a supercomputer

  VTT and CSC recently connected a quantum computer with Europe’s fastest supercomputer to enable a hybrid service for researchers

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Post Office boosted its ‘coffers’ as Horizon system threw up unexplained shortfalls, inquiry told

  The Post Office was ‘keen’ to make subpostmasters cover unexplained accounting shortfall as its business struggled, public inquiry hears

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Financial benefits of government’s shared services strategy remain unclear, says NAO

  Cabinet Office needs to do more to avoid previous failings, as several barriers remain to a successful implementation of the strategy to deliver shared back-office services for government, according to National Audit Office report

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: HSBC discusses low-code in financial services

  A member of HSBC’s global transformation team has shared her views on low-code with an audience in Amsterdam

• November 26, 2022 26 Nov'22

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Wales launches beta version of its own NHS app

  NHS Wales has begun trialling the beta version of its patient-facing app ahead of plans for a full launch next year

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Fujitsu put pressure on UK government to sign off troubled Horizon project, public inquiry hears

  Telegram from British Embassy in Tokyo to UK government reveals pressure on ministers to sign off controversial contract

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices

  Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence

  Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  IT services sector hiring slows to pre-pandemic levels

  IT services firms have slowed their recruitment after a major acceleration in hiring during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Bug Bounty Calculator helps organisations fine-tune their payouts

  Newly launched comparison tool will supposedly help operators of vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty programmes to ensure their payments match market rates and expectations, and attract the right sort of attention

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Pioneer behind IT systems design dies

  Peter Hermon’s career spanned IT and management, including deploying LEO computers in industry and the integration of IT systems when BA was formed

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  CyberPeace Institute helps NGOs improve their security resilience

  Adrien Ogée of the CyberPeace Institute talks about his work supporting NGOs and humanitarian organisations, and how the security community at large can help protect the world’s most vulnerable people

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  HMRC will begin migration from Government Gateway to One Login in summer 2023

  One Login for Government programme has the objective of simplifying access to central government, says HMRC chief technology and design officer

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’

  Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’

  Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  A modern approach to enterprise software development

  Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires