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IT suppliers

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Cyber training firm KnowBe4 bought by private equity firm

  Acquisition of KnowBe4 supposedly reflects the success the company has seen since its spring 2021 IPO

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Dutch influence standards for post-quantum cryptography

  Cryptology group at Dutch research institute is involved in the two primary algorithms of the next NIST portfolio comprising four new standards

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Perpetrators of subpostmaster suffering in Horizon scandal must face public inquiry

  Victims demand that the perpetrators of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal face the public inquiry

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Tech critical to the UK’s prosperity, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

  Technology could provide the answer to the energy crisis, according to the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, as he hails tech as a way to guarantee prosperity for the country

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Bowled out: NVMe flash pioneer Pavilion Data ceases business

  Last of the pioneer NVMe flash storage array makers, Pavilion made multiprotocol highs-speed boxes – but it seems to have run out of sources of investment and gone out of business

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  NCSC urges organisations to secure supply chains

  NCSC’s latest guidance package centres supply chain security, helping medium to large organisations assess and mitigate cyber risks from suppliers

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Santander and Google offer tech to help businesses smooth move to cloud

  Dual Run service from Google will be built on top of Santander technology known as Gravity

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud fleshes out sovereign cloud capabilities for European enterprises

  Google Cloud uses the first day of its user conference to provide an update on how its efforts to meet the data sovereignty needs of European enterprises are progressing

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Public sector spend on IT climbed to £12.6bn in 2021

  Public sector bodies IT spend went up 10% last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers with 89% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Bolt drivers take legal action over employment status

  Drivers argue they have been wrongly classified as self-employed, and are seeking backdated wages and holiday pay

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  SMEs in Europe ready to invest in real-time payment capabilities

  Small and medium-sized enterprises are losing business because of the time it takes to receive payments, with many considering API-based services to address the problem

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  NHS looks to improve digital mental health support

  NHS England plans for programme to use digital technologies and data to improve mental health treatment and help patients access services

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Tech Nation and PwC launch joint climate tech accelerator

  The Net Zero X programme by Tech Nation and PwC will help climate tech companies to overcome common growth challenges and scale faster

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Public sector aims to close digital skills gap with private sector

  Digital leaders from the public sector have stressed the need to build up the digital skills and capabilities of civil servants to successfully deliver the government’s digital transformation ambitions, but not at the expense of supplier ecosystems

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  IR35 reforms to be scrapped: What IT contractors need to know

  News of the government’s plans to scrap the IR35 reforms took the contracting world by surprise, but IT contractors are being warned off making hasty changes to the way they work just yet

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Next phase of open banking already gathering pace

  Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses

  Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption

  The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally

  Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Russia ready for complete switch to domestic IT infrastructure

  In a bid to counter sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government is implementing a policy of import substitution in the country’s domestic IT sector

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Online Safety Bill needs complete overhaul, say rights groups

  Civil society groups write to new digital minister to challenge various aspects of the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which they say threatens rights to privacy and freedom of expression

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access

  Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  More than 30 startups to join Plexal’s Cyber Runway accelerator

  Now in its second year, the Cyber Runway accelerator has been designed to support firms at various stages of growth, as well as help the cyber security sector to improve on its diversity, inclusion and regional representation

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  PoINT to offer on-site S3 object storage archive on disk and tape

  Archival Gateway can cluster up to 256 tape readers to provide S3 object storage clusters capable of storing 50 billion objects per bucket, and giving throughput of 230GBps

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  FCSA calls for government clampdown on cloned umbrella companies

  One year has passed since the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association spoke out about the problem of umbrella company cloning, and it claims the authorities are not moving fast enough to tackle the issue

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Copenhagen Fintech connects its members to the world

  Copenhagen-based startup initiative is driving fintech developments across the Nordic region, with Mastercard its latest global partner

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  Mini-Budget 2022: HMRC tells firms to update payroll software ahead of November NI tax cut

  HMRC is urging employers to ensure their payroll software systems are updated now, before the reversal of the previous government’s National Insurance tax hike kicks in

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Tech Nation announces 13 startups for 11th Future Fifty cohort

  Thirteen high-growth startups set to join Tech Nation’s 11th annual Future Fifty programme to help them scale further

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  NHS Scotland to transform population health through digital technologies

  A collaboration between NHS Scotland, industry partners and academia aims to launch large-scale programmes to improve population health in the country through digital technologies and new patient pathways

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Dutch student team aims to enable uninterrupted drone cargo delivery

  Dutch student team aims to make the world of flying more sustainable by creating a global network of autonomously flying cargo drones that can have their batteries swapped mid-air

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  Barnet Council awards Capita contract extension

  Barnet Council has awarded Capita a contract extension as part of its transition away from a large contract with the supplier

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  EU Cyber Resilience Act sets global standard for connected products

  European Commission lays out proposed security regulations on device and software security to better protect consumers and drive global standards

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Organisations failing to account for digital trust

  The vast majority of businesses are well aware of the importance of digital trust, yet very few have a dedicated staff role responsible for it, report finds

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  Ex-CISA head Krebs: Disrupt ransomware support networks to win the war

  Speaking at an event hosted by data protection specialist Rubrik, former CISA director Chris Krebs calls for the security community to work collectively to kick out the supports from under ransomware gangs

• September 14, 2022 14 Sep'22

  US to see huge increase in embedded finance transactions

  Retailers and other non-financial businesses are increasingly offering their customers financial services, such as credit and payment options

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Cisco confirms leaked data was stolen in Yanluowang ransomware hit

  Cisco has confirmed that data leaked last week by the Yanluowang ransomware gang was that stolen during a May 2022 cyber attack

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  JP Morgan acquires fintech for payments modernisation

  JP Morgan acquires cloud-native payments technology as it modernises its IT infrastructure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Investment in UK fintech sees fall amid global turmoil

  Investment in fintech drops, but because figures are distorted by last year’s records, it’s not as bad as it looks, says KPMG

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Blancco works with charity to provide IT for African schools

  Blancco is providing data sanitisation and erasure software to The Turing Trust so that old IT equipment can be securely reused by school children in Sub-Saharan Africa, instead of adding to world’s growing e-waste problem

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Mandiant floats off into Google Cloud

  As planned, the acquisition of Mandiant will see the threat intel and incident response giant become a part of Google’s Cloud business

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  CISOs should spend on critical apps, cloud, zero-trust, in 2023

  Faced with a global recession next year, security buyers should try to direct investment towards technology that protects customer-facing and revenue-generating workloads, say analysts

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  NHS Business Services Authority goes to tender for £1.7bn HR system

  Organisation is looking for an integrated workforce solution for the NHS, which includes NHS electronic staff record services

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Lloyd’s of London is digitally transforming through the front door

  Centuries-old financial services organisation is transforming its complex IT infrastructure through digital data

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Interview: Keeping an IT business going during the Russian invasion

  After heading home and discovering that his country had been invaded, Konstantin Klyagin was forced to make life-changing family and business decisions

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 08, 2022 08 Sep'22

  CGI gets ESA order to develop predictive routing tool for satellite constellations

  Tool will support increased need to equip satellite networks with software-defined networking to deliver simplified management, better end-to-end network automation support and streamlined delivery of network services

• September 07, 2022 07 Sep'22

  Tech Nation Libra programme selects 35 scaleups for second cohort

  The Libra 2.0 programme is designed to help underrepresented founders in the UK who are growing and seeking specific support for scaling up their business