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• 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

• How insight-driven enterprises use data to strategic advantage

  Accenture managing directors Nick Millman and Ray Eitel-Porter distil steps for enterprises to turn data into business insight from the firm’s consultancy  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ransomware defence requires focus on three key areas

  What is the best strategy for business to protect against ransomware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three-pronged approach to defend against ransomware

  Ransomware is becoming increasingly prevalent in the world of cyber crime. What is the best strategy for businesses to protect against it?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ransomware exploits poor security practice in SMEs

  What is the best strategy for business to protect against ransomware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four steps for companies to protect against ransomware

  What is the best strategy for business to protect against ransomware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employee awareness key to halting ransomware attacks

  What is the best strategy for business to protect against ransomware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: User education is first line of defence against ransomware

  What is the best strategy for business to protect against ransomware?  Continue Reading

• Will people be at the heart of your business transformation?

  Areas of the business that hold workforce data face a huge opportunity to help their organisations accelerate end-to-end transformation and increase their odds of success  Continue Reading

• Getting the Apprenticeship Levy right for technology employers

  TechUK looks at the opportunities and challenges in creating IT jobs of the future and making the levy work for tech companies  Continue Reading

• The problem with China isn’t China – it’s usually us

  Biased thinking about China causes the West to underestimate the country's role in the future of the technology industry  Continue Reading

• Cloud vs. Colocation: Why both make sense for the enterprise right now

  With colocation providers moving to adopt simpler, cloud-like charging models, would enterprises be better off ditching the datacentre completely?  Continue Reading

• Robots will transform, not replace, human work

  Claims that robots will steal our jobs are commonplace – but humans will find themselves working side by side with robots, rather than being replaced by them  Continue Reading

• If government wants city devolution to succeed, cities need to use data

  Developing smart data-driven cities needs to be a priority if the government's devolution policy is to succeed  Continue Reading

• Floods reveal weaknesses in the resilience of UK broadband

  December’s floods exposed a major flaw in the UK’s fibre to the cabinet networks, which are almost impossible to waterproof  Continue Reading

• Why quality of experience matters more than quality of service

  David Brunnen writes about why regulators should start thinking about quality of experience when it comes to broadband and not simply the quality of service  Continue Reading

• Don’t let an identity crisis stand in the way of health and care integration

  Challenges in identifying patients and connecting their activity across multiple health and social care organisations cannot remain a barrier to integration, says Andy Kinnear, Connecting Care programme director  Continue Reading

• When a slowdown in IT budgets is a good thing

  IT budgets will grow at their slowest rate for four years in 2016, yet companies are spending more on digital technology  Continue Reading

• Saving Bletchley Park: The women of Station X

  Sue Black recalls her first experience of Bletchley Park and the women who worked there, inspiring a campaign to save the home of the WW2 codebreakers  Continue Reading

• Digital platform more than taxi service: Uber as app economy paradigm?

  Uber’s significance may lie more in its being a data-rich platform that taps into unused human economic resources than in its role as a passenger pickup service  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Get business value from security testing services by insourcing

  How can an organisation ensure it gets value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Start with threats to increase value of penetration testing

  How can an organisation ensure it gets value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Selecting the right pen tester helps deliver most value

  How can an organisation ensure they get value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Penetration testing still relevant, but approach needs to change

  How can an organisation ensure it gets value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Creating a CIO legacy beyond the systems

  So much of what a business does today needs to be technology-driven that CIOs have a choice between leading and lagging behind  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Pen testing must be followed by action

  How can an organisation ensure they get value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Clarity of scope is key to getting value from pen testing

  How can an organisation ensure they get value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Pen testing should be about risk, not box-ticking

  How can organisations ensure they get value from penetration and security testing services?  Continue Reading

• Declining capital investment no problem in a digital economy

  Economists and politicians are fretting about the fall in capital investment – but this is to be expected in a digital economy where startup costs are shrinking  Continue Reading

• Why it pays to get messy with big data

  Big data does not have to be perfect to give useful insights. The ability to make messy data usable quickly could become business critical  Continue Reading

• What CIOs need to know to ensure their PMOs deliver

  The most effective project management organisations spend most of their time and resources on relationships and minimal time on tasks  Continue Reading

• Rise of the super-contractors as IT skills gap widens

  More IT professionals are becoming contractors in order to charge a premium for their much-in-demand services  Continue Reading

• A plan for managing public-sector IT costs

  The 2015 spending review is set to put further pressure on the public sector. Are there easy cuts public-sector CIOs can make?  Continue Reading

• Democratise internet of things data analytics with virtualisation

  Accenture Labs authors contend that data virtualisation can unlock business value from the IoT  Continue Reading

• Big companies will out-innovate tech startups in coming years

  Innovations by large corporates will grow rapidly as they become the most innovative companies over the next decade  Continue Reading

• Why we’re measuring the digital economy in the wrong way

  Conventional measures of productivity and growth, such as GDP, fail to capture the true effect of the digital revolution – but we're getting richer nonetheless  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Classification is the first step to personal data security

  How should businesses go about setting up and maintaining a comprehensive and accurate inventory of personal data?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Find out what personal data your company holds

  How should businesses go about setting up and maintaining a comprehensive and accurate inventory of personal data?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Create a data security culture to keep data safe

  How should businesses go about setting up and maintaining a comprehensive and accurate inventory of personal data?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three steps to personal data security

  How should businesses go about setting up and maintaining a comprehensive and accurate inventory of personal data?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: IAOs key to setting up asset registers

  How should businesses go about setting up and maintaining a comprehensive and accurate inventory of personal data?  Continue Reading

• What does the new EU data protection regime mean for datacentres and cloud service operators?

  Changes to European data protection law will put new responsibilities on datacentre and cloud providers  Continue Reading

• Why the IT dinosaurs should be planning for extinction

  The planned merger of two dinosaurs of the hardware world, Dell and EMC, offers a useful insight into how to manage corporate extinction  Continue Reading

• The problem of smart cities and connectivity in the UK

  Only once leaders develop a framework for local economic and societal development can the “smart city” buzz can evolve into “intelligent communities”  Continue Reading

• How the Consumer Rights Act will affect the digital industry

  Consumer legislation has been updated to take into account the unique nature of digital content – but what does it mean for technology suppliers?  Continue Reading

• Pixar president on why building a 'fail fast' culture is hard

  The duality of failure, IBM's bet on cognitive computing, and the difference between a data officer and an analytics officer: The Data Mill reports.  Continue Reading

• Can the IT department fix personal data?

  Disruptive technologies can help solve the problem of managing personal data, but IT needs to team up with marketing and finance teams to make it work  Continue Reading

• The missing ingredient for effective problem management

  Problem management implementations often fail or have limited success because they lack managers who are trained to lead problem investigations using structured methods  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Threat intelligence feeds not for everyone

  What is the best practice for collecting and using threat indicators from security incidents to improve defences against future cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• The need for a 'Capability Exchange' for digital government

  In the last of a three-part series, Mark Thompson outlines a digital vision to make government a more cohesive, integrated organisation  Continue Reading

• The power of situational awareness for digital government

  In the second of a three-part series, Mark Thompson outlines a digital vision to make government a more cohesive, integrated organisation  Continue Reading

• Time to get mapping - how a blind government can develop sight

  In the first of a three-part series, Mark Thompson outlines a digital vision to make government a more cohesive, integrated organisation  Continue Reading

• Government must listen to tech sector in Investigatory Powers Bill

  Plans for new powers to allow intelligence agencies to monitor electronic communications must be carefully thought through  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security intelligence is useful only if isolated from the noise

  What is best practice for collecting and using threat indicators from security incidents to improve defences against future cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Supercharging cyber security protection: Questions to ask when hiring a managed services provider

  With information security concerns and challenges at an all-time high, and a global shortage of security professionals to address them, some enterprises are turning to managed security services for help. To ease the selection process, Dragana Vranic...  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security intelligence demands getting the basics right

  What is the best practice for collecting and using threat indicators from security incidents to improve defences against future cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Keep C-suite informed on incidents to drive better security

  What is the best practice for collecting and using threat indicators from security incidents to improve defences against future cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Addressing the gap between security data and intelligence

  What is the best practice for collecting and using threat indicators from security incidents to improve defences against future cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• The pace of digital disruption varies widely by industry

  Digital disruption is inevitable - but different forces in different industries mean the pace of change varies by sector  Continue Reading

• How to mitigate security risks associated with IoT

  There are five key information security risks associated with the internet of things that businesses can and should address  Continue Reading

• Are you exposed? Lessons from Ashley Madison

  Data breaches are only a matter of time so companies need to know what to do to prevent, respond and contain breaches when they happen  Continue Reading

• Network security systems – dedicated or multifunction?

  For small and medium-sized businesses looking to secure their networks, multifunction security systems are a better option than best-of-breed technology  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three key cyber resilience goals

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the impact of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• The importance of e-leadership in meeting digital challenges

  Henley Business School identifies ICT trends that will alter the demand of e-skills, especially those needed by e-leaders  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Resiliency is the single most effective response to cyber attacks

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the impact of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Thank Tank: Business resilience should be proactive, not reactive

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the effect of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Resilience basics will work for any size of business

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the impact of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Aim at joined-up security for clearer risk view

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the effect of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• Reinventing outsourcing through agile principles

  Organisations are starting to use agile principles to reinvent the outsourcing selection process, with some excellent results  Continue Reading

• Consumer Rights Act will boost trust in digital content

  New law presents a huge opportunity for the growth in sales of online movies, music downloads, e-books, apps and software  Continue Reading

• Why HTML5 must replace Flash

  Author Robin Nixon explains why the days of Flash are numbered  Continue Reading

• Five lessons learned from a year in the cloud

  Startup online estate agency Purplebricks.com was built on the cloud. The technical director shares the company's experiences and lessons learned  Continue Reading

• Life’s a breach: How to handle the press after a hacking attack

  Emily Dent, specialist in crisis PR, offers some advice to organisations that unexpectedly find themselves in the headlines  Continue Reading

• Looking beyond nine-to-five

  Technology is changing the face of work faster than we realise. How can you plan your career in the face of technological disruption?  Continue Reading