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• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  AstraZeneca IT exec steps down

  Pharmaceutical giant’s vice-president of IT transformation and office of the CIO, Chris Day, is leaving the company after eight years in the role

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  UK government secures public sector discounts on Microsoft cloud products to April 2021

  Government procurement chiefs have secured ongoing preferential pricing on Microsoft cloud products for the public sector through Digital Transformation Agreement

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Cryptocurrency mining rampant in higher education

  Higher education institutions are the biggest target for illicit cryptocurrency mining, data shows

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  IR35 reforms: IT contractors express concerns over ‘inevitable’ private sector roll-out

  Research suggests IT contractors are resigned to the IR35 reforms being implemented in the private sector, and many fear an announcement to that effect will come this year

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  One year to Brexit: Focus on skills development or risk halting digital progress

  With 365 days left until the UK leaves the EU, the countdown has begun. Computer Weekly looks at what CIOs should be doing as they prepare for Brexit, and the challenges and opportunities it could bring

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Western Digital adds StorReduce deduplication to object storage

  US hardware giant Western Digital links up with StorReduce to provide data deduplication for object storage that combines WD ActiveScale scale-out appliances with the startup’s dedupe software

• March 29, 2018 29 Mar'18

  Most airports not protected from cyber threats

  The chairman of the Israel Airports Authority paints a dismal picture of the state of cyber security in aviation, and offers advice on what can be done to avert the next disaster

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Home Office ‘over-promised’ on exit checks programme, report finds

  Chief inspector of borders and immigration calls on Home Office to re-establish exit checks project with proper data quality in place, but department rejects recommendation

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Why does India have a higher percentage of women in tech than the UK?

  Research by the Open University has assessed the differences between the women in IT landscape in the UK and India

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• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Consumer group calls for Zuckerberg to step down after data misuse

  A social media firm's value is in the size of the network of users it can offer advertisers. But this model is now under the spotlight

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Organisations can use GDPR ambiguity to contest fines in court, experts say

  Businesses can use the vagueness of the regulation to argue against fines in court, say experts

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Majority of European firms unprepared for phishing attacks

  Most cyber attacks can be traced back to a phishing email, but more than half of European firms are unprepared to deal with email-based attacks, research has revealed

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Home Office issues guidance on tech to prevent identity fraud

  Advice highlights the benefits of using identity document validation to audit and share data on fraudulent documents

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Facebook announces more privacy control updates

  Social media giant updates privacy settings and tools in response to the unfolding controversy over Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data for political campaigns

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  £5m Ada Lovelace Institute launched to look into data ethics

  Nuffield Foundation announces institute to examine ethical and social issues arising from the use of data, algorithms and artificial intelligence