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• Data breaches: Different regions, very different impacts

  The cost, scrutiny and pressure of dealing with a data breach will become more apparent in the near future as European legislation takes effect  Continue Reading

• Ofcom seems to have forgotten its remit, and actually that’s no surprise

  Ofcom made the wrong choice by putting economists in charge, and is in danger of forgetting its remit, says Simon Rockman  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Brexit – An opportunity for infosec pros to take the lead

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Brexit – does it matter for IT?

  Brexit will have both short-term and long-term implications for businesses and their relationships with IT suppliers  Continue Reading

• It’s not too late to turn the tide on Investigatory Powers Bill

  The government has set David Anderson QC an almost impossible task in his review of the sweeping bulk powers proposed in the Investigatory Powers Bill – but it is not too late to make a difference  Continue Reading

• Choosing the right colocation provider

  Quocirca's Clive Longbottom runs through the list of items enterprise IT managers should look for in prospective colocation providers  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Forget Brexit, use GDPR to foster customer relationships

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Queen’s Gambit – Brexit implications for infosec pros

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Brexit – An opportunity to clean house

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec should not focus on Brexit at the expense of the here and now

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Brexit – a mix of challenges and opportunities for infosec

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Brexit and infosec – for now it’s business as usual

  What are the pros and cons of the UK leaving the EU for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: EU data security principles apply, regardless of Brexit

  What are the pros and cons of Brexit for information security professionals and data protection?  Continue Reading

• A day in the life of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

  Britain's most secretive court combined the surreal with the deadly serious, as it debated the legality of bulk data collection by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ  Continue Reading

• Consumer identity management is the core of real CRM

  IAM + CRM is much more than simply IAM for external users, says Ivan Niccolai  Continue Reading

• Six essential processes for keeping data secure

  Data security is increasingly vital for organisations as the countdown begins for compliance with new rules imposed by the EU’s general data protection regulation  Continue Reading

• Where are the digital leaders in local government?

  Brexit presents a challenge and an opportunity for digital leaders in local government – they need to work together to find the best solutions  Continue Reading

• Privacy Shield gets green light – for now

  Privacy Shield faces inevitable legal challenges, so organisations should prepare by considering legal and practical alternatives  Continue Reading

• Why digital is not enough

  Digital has become a buzzword, but IT leaders instead need to understand the characteristics of a 21st century digital organisation  Continue Reading

• Brexit offers chance for UK to become a ‘data haven’

  Could the UK become a a safe place for both cloud and big data after it leaves the EU?  Continue Reading

• What CIOs should know about Brexit

  CIOs should start talking with other executives and their teams and begin planning now for potential changes  Continue Reading

• What does Brexit mean for the digital economy?

  It has become increasingly clear that there is no plan beyond the Brexit, so what do we do now, asks Chi Onwurah, the shadow minister for business  Continue Reading

• How to achieve credibility in NHS IT projects

  Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical lead for electronic patient records explains how clinical engagement has helped make EPR an open source success  Continue Reading

• Mindful collaboration: Who shares wins

  IT leaders seem to struggle to make collaboration technology projects work. Research by the Leading Edge Forum offers some possible answers  Continue Reading

• Intelligent public services, digital politics and the paradox of Brexit

  The Brexiteers’ vision of direct democracy requires progressive engagement with, and consolidation of, public service models across the continent  Continue Reading

• How can telcos respond to the strategic questions they face?

  Traditional telcos are under tremendous pressure to reinvent themselves to remain competitive and relevant. BDO’s Christian Goetz looks at the options  Continue Reading

• Was that it? Business as usual for fintechs after Brexit vote

  Following the Brexit vote, Fintech Times editor Bird Lovegod describes how financial services IT startups are getting on with business as usual  Continue Reading

• Does tech have a gender pay gap problem?

  It’s time tech businesses stop burying their heads in the sand – the gender pay gap can’t be ignored  Continue Reading

• IT professionals: volunteer your skills to help a charity

  The newly launched Charity IT Association wants to help charities improve their use of technology – and they’re looking for support from IT expert volunteers  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use biometric security at the right time and place

  How can organisations move to biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Biometrics have key role in multi-factor security

  How can organisations move to biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• SMEs move into cyber criminals’ crosshairs

  The consequences of data breaches for small businesses are greater than ever, with data protection law becoming tougher just as SMEs are turning into a top target for cyber attackers  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Practical biometrics in the enterprise

  How can organisations implement biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• A one-size-fits-all blockchain just won’t do

  With manifold use cases and specific requirements for blockchains, businesses will have to choose the right variety rather than deploy a single ‘interoperable’ blockchain  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Research biometrics thoroughly before deploying

  How can organisations move to biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Proceed with caution on biometric authentication

  How can organisations move to biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: A starter guide for biometrics in security

  How can organisations move to biometric authentication of users without running the risk of exposing sensitive biometric information?  Continue Reading

• Solid state storage in the datacentre: More than a flash in the pan

  As IT organisations transform their datacentres to meet the efficiency and agility demands of the digital enterprise, flash storage is increasingly viewed as a key element  Continue Reading

• Brexit and technology: How network effects will damage UK IT industry

  Although largely ignored in the Brexit debate, network effects will damage the UK's high-tech industry if Britain leaves Europe  Continue Reading

• The true cost of running technology

  Ministry of Justice digital chief Arif Harbott discusses the importance of disclosing the costs of technology – and why it makes sense to invest to avoid expensive glitches  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec pros need to identify and protect GDPR-relevant data

  What is the role of information security professionals in helping organisations to ensure they are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Understanding compliance with the GDPR

  What is the role of information security professionals in helping organisations to ensure they are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: All aboard as European data regulation nears final station

  What is the role of information security professionals in helping organisations to ensure they are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How infosec pros should influence prep for GDPR

  What is the role of information security professionals in ensuring organisations comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Key GDPR issues for infosec pros to address

  What is the role of information security professionals in ensuring organisations comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Infosec pros can kickstart GDPR prep with data audit

  What is the role of information security professionals in ensuring organisations comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Information security professionals have key role in GDPR compliance

  What is the role of information security professionals in helping organisations to ensure they are compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 25 May 2018?  Continue Reading

• Managing open-source security: a legal perspective

  Open-source software is being used more widely than ever – but do IT leaders understand the legal risks?  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT

  The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain  Continue Reading

• New Zealand reaps fibre benefits as copper-choked UK risks digital exclusion

  Telecoms and technology consultant, futurist and ex-BT CTO Peter Cochrane highlights the urgency for the UK to consider FTTP if it wants to maintain its place in the world economy  Continue Reading

• The race to public sector transformation

  TechUK's survey of civil servants highlights the challenges of digital transformation in government  Continue Reading

• Graph databases: What are the benefits for CIOs?

  With enterprise interest in graph databases on the rise, Clive Longbottom explains why some businesses are favouring them over relational setups  Continue Reading

• Israel’s cyber security frontier

  The Israeli city of Beer Sheva is quickly becoming a global centre of cyber security technology  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Internal up-skilling key to tackling cyber security skills shortage

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure that they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Guidelines for improving the effectiveness of IT security recruitment

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure that they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• The European Cloud Initiative: A silver lining for data sharing?

  The European Commission has published proposals for a new cloud initiative – part of a package of measures designed to enhance the EU’s position in the global, data-driven economy  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Identifying, attracting and keeping the right IT security talent

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure that they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• Fear, uncertainty and data doubt hold back public Wi-Fi

  Venue owners’ uncertainty and befuddlement over what they can actually do with their Wi-Fi infrastructure and the data carried over it is hindering their ability to realise the full potential of public Wi-Fi  Continue Reading

• A legal perspective on Ofcom’s BT Openreach review

  Frances Murphy, partner, and Joanna Christoforou, of counsel, from the London office of global law firm Morgan Lewis examine Ofcom’s review of BT’s Openreach  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Focus IT security recruitment on risk management

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure that they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• Privacy Shield: Imperfect and incomplete

  Adoption of Privacy Shield is unlikely before June 2016, and the scheme is likely to be challenged by national data protection authorities and individuals, writes Huw Beverley-Smith  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: HR and IT security collaboration key to skills crisis

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Strategies for meeting cyber security skills needs

  What strategies can organisations use to ensure they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked?  Continue Reading

• New 5G spectrum rules urgently needed for European innovators

  Europe risks falling behind if it does not move to establish 5G spectrum standards soon  Continue Reading

• The consumerisation of machine intelligence

  Machine intelligence is improving fast – as demonstrated by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo success – and IT leaders need to plan for its effect on enterprise IT  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five tips for creating a patch management strategy

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security patching an essential element of outsourcing contracts

  What strategies can companies adopt to keep up and deal with the huge volume of software updates they face?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Allocate maintenance processes to each piece of key software

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Using vulnerability management to support the patching process

  What strategies can companies adopt to deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Tackle vital patching challenge with risk-based approach

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Six alternative strategies to centralised security patching

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• Brexit debate: Why IT pros should vote to leave

  IT consultant Peter Chadha gives five reasons why the UK would be better off leaving the European Union  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five strategies for dealing with software security updates

  What strategies can companies adopt to keep up with, and deal with, the huge volume of software updates they face?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Software patching needs executive sponsorship

  What strategies can companies adopt to keep up with, and deal with, the huge volume of software updates they face?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ignoring software patching spells trouble

  What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?  Continue Reading

• How to transition to a cloud-based analytics environment

  Accenture Digital consultants say businesses can be more agile by way of cloud-based analytics  Continue Reading

• Wearable technology creates opportunities for retailers

  Wearable technology allows taxis to offer commuters a ride when it is raining, and restaurants' to tailor their dishes to customers' weight-loss plans.  Continue Reading

• Turn consumer technology into practical business innovation

  Many organisations are missing out on the opportunities for innovating presented by everyday consumer technology  Continue Reading

• Investigatory Powers Bill: What it means for UK tech startups

  The proposed Investigatory Powers Bill could prove damaging for innovative high-tech companies, writes Tirath Bansal, founder and CEO of internet startup myorb.com  Continue Reading

• Are apprenticeships the solution to London’s digital skills problem?

  With the technology skills shortage holding back London's burgeoning tech startup scene, can a commitment to apprenticeships help?  Continue Reading

• Fighting the ‘fortress mentality’ at DWP – my search for the truth about Universal Credit

  IT programme manager and freedom-of-information campaigner John Slater reflects on his four-year battle to force the Department for Work and Pensions to release key documents  Continue Reading

• UK government SME procurement policy - where it worked and where it has failed

  The government's former SME champion outlines the difficulties of getting the civil service to buy in to Whitehall aspirations for buying from small businesses  Continue Reading

• Seven steps to becoming a digital business leader

  Developing employees to embrace a digital-first approach can bring significant personal and organisational benefits  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Many breaches down to poor access controls

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes – and how best are these corrected?  Continue Reading

• Don’t think that Brexit will save you from the EU data protection rules

  The EU General Data Protection Regulation will still apply to UK companies dealing with the EU, regardless of whether the UK remains in the union  Continue Reading

• The problem with passwords: how to make it easier for employees to stay secure

  An organisation’s IT security can be compromised if staff do not follow a strict policy of using strong passwords to access internal systems  Continue Reading

• Are cloud users worrying about nothing when it comes to data sovereignty?

  With the upheaval surrounding the EU-US Privacy Shield, Clive Longbottom takes a closer look at the issue of sovereignty  Continue Reading

• People, not processes – a personal lament

  Professionals should never forget the art of networking and relationship-building as their career progresses  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to keep on top of access control

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and how can these best be corrected?  Continue Reading

• Reinstating Moore’s Law: a next-generation transistor for mobile technology

  Research into a new generation of transistors could end a decade of stagnation in computing speed and deliver a step-change in processing power, says the National Physical Laboratory’s Mark Stewart  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Access control is key to protecting against cyber attacks

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and how can these best be corrected?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Top five access control mistakes

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and what is the best way to correct them?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Policies and procedures vital for successful access control

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and what is the best way to correct them?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Password management tops list of access control issues

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and how best are these corrected?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Human factor key to access control

  In the modern business environment, what are the most common access control mistakes and how best are these corrected?  Continue Reading

• Sparks of creativity as energy and digital futures collide

  Digital technologies consume way too much energy and present an environmental and sustainability issue that demands a fresh design approach  Continue Reading

• EU moves towards digital single market with online content portability

  Lawyers Chris Watson and Tom Scourfield explain how the EU is moving towards the creation of a digital single market with its proposal for online content portability  Continue Reading

• Big changes ahead for the patent system in Europe

  EU rules aim to support more innovation in Europe by better protecting patent holders with the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court  Continue Reading

• Demystifying service delivery automation

  What is service delivery automation and what can it do for your organisation?  Continue Reading

• Life on the edge: The benefits of using micro datacentres

  Enterprises are demanding faster access to applications and ever more processing power. Could edge datacentres fill the gap?  Continue Reading