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• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Conditions ‘not quite there’ for government chief data officer

  The long-awaited appointment for government’s chief data officer requires a perception in departments that data is actually valuable, government officials said

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  MPs slam Home Office over troubled Emergency Services Network programme

  The plan for a new communications network for police, fire and ambulance services is three years late and £3.1bn over budget, and Public Accounts Committee fears further delays

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Vulnerable firmware in enterprise server supply chain

  Researchers are warning of vulnerabilities in firmware from a third-party supplier that put some servers from Lenovo, Gigabyte and six other manufacturers at risk

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Danish government injects €200m into AI R&D

  Denmark is investing in a range of programmes to boost research and development into artificial intelligence and its place in various business sectors

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  NCSC calls out Microsoft over Dmarc reports

  The UK’s cyber security agency has called out Microsoft for seriously undermining global email security by failing to provide crucial reports from its email platforms

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Digital safety skills initiative launched against cyber crime

  Security industry partners have launched an initiative aimed at raising individuals’ digital safety skills to enable them to protect themselves and their families from most common cyber attacks

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Manchester Metrolink gets contactless payments technology

  Travellers using Manchester’s trams can now complete their journeys using contactless payment

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  UN resolution ignores special rapporteur’s call for halt to spyware sales

  UN’s Human Rights Council adopts resolution to explore the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on human rights, but the text ignores a damning report by the council’s own expert on freedom of expression

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  Dutch authorities temporarily halt datacentre construction

  Two local authorities in the Netherlands have put the brakes on datacentre construction to give them time to put policies in place to gain more control over builds

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• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  NCSC reports on second year of cyber defence at scale

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre releases a report on the second year of its Active Cyber Defence programme to demonstrate its effects in the public sector and wider UK cyber ecosystem

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Suse is taking open source deeper into the enterprise

  Suse’s focus on developer needs, industry-specific use cases and engineering partnerships with the likes of SAP are among efforts to take open source software deeper into the enterprise

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Government must ‘stop choosing ignorance’ around data

  In a letter to digital secretary Jeremy Wright, civil society groups warn that a number of shortcomings must be addressed to enable the government to reap data-related benefits

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  UK launches 5G security inquiry

  The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy is to probe the UK government’s approach to telecoms technology as a national security issue

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Smartodds bets on Rubrik backup appliance with cloud archive

  Betting intelligence analytics firm Smartodds replaced its old tape backup infrastructure with Rubrik appliances to cut management time and database restores from hours to minutes

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

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