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Opinion

• Security Think Tank: Enhanced cyber security requires change in attitude

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Carbanak requires people, process and tech, but mostly people

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Carbanak attacks highlight need for tech and process review  

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: People and process remain the soft underbelly of banks

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Does IBM have what it needs to succeed in the cloud era?

  With its history in hardware, has IBM done enough from a tech development and acquisition perspective to achieve long-term success in the cloud?  Continue Reading

• The bad theatre of the Intelligence and Security Committee

  The report of the Intelligence and Security Committee was like a piece of bad theatre  Continue Reading

• Get closer to your customers by doing the co-creation tango

  For years, IT has been in a formal dance with its customers, but in the disruptive world of co-creation, it now needs to learn to tango  Continue Reading

• Is your storage ready for the future?

  Research study looks at the challenge of building a storage infrastructure to meet the rapidly changing needs of business  Continue Reading

• The customer-centric cloud model for HR IT

  IT and HR departments are working increasingly closely with cloud suppliers to develop and improve cloud-based HR systems  Continue Reading

• Top 10 strategic execution trends for 2015

  More firms expected to follow high-performing organisations by applying a range of forward-leaning approaches to strategic execution  Continue Reading

• IT availability: the whole truth

  Some of the figures people quote for the reliability of their IT systems look ludicrously minimal  Continue Reading

• Drones – taking off or staying grounded?

  While excitement grows in anticipation of potential mass adoption of drones, the industry has to overcome hurdles in the form of regulation  Continue Reading

• Patent trolls must not be allowed to encroach on Europe

  So-called patent trolls may soon come under attack in the US as part of government-backed efforts against abusive intellectual property litigation  Continue Reading

• Justifying end-user computing investments

  Device proliferation and loss of control over at least some end-user equipment drives a need to centralise key aspects of IT delivery  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: a proxy for storage transformation

  Software-defined storage reflects important trends that affect storage, such as increasing separation between hardware and software  Continue Reading

• Why you need smarter case management

  Business users will see myriad benefits from an emerging wave of case management applications  Continue Reading

• Drones in UK skies: an increasingly crowded regulatory airspace

  With drones becoming commonplace in the UK, the law has been required to evolve and play catch-up  Continue Reading

• Think digital, act local: transforming relationships between services and citizens

  Digitisation can help local government save money, reinvent services and recast the relationship between the citizen and the state  Continue Reading

• Big data to unlock value from the industrial internet of things

  The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is changing the way we live and work, and extracting maximum value requires a big data approach  Continue Reading

• Sony attack raises questions about how to protect internet assets

  In the light of 2014's cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use the Sony breach to plan for the worst

  In the light of the 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• Pro-European parties should unite around a UK vision for the digital single market

  The UK is the EU’s leading digital economy and home to its biggest creative sector so has most to gain and most to lose in a digital single market  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four steps to defend against cyber attack 

  Last November’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures made clear we need to be able to repel the threat from nation states as well as criminals  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Lessons to be learned from Sony breach

  In the light of November 2014’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• What is government as a platform and how do we achieve it?

  There are lots of discussion going on at the moment about digital “platforms”, and the impact they might have on UK public services  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Sony employee lawsuit over data breach marks watershed moment

  In the light of the cyber attack on Sony, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind of assault?  Continue Reading

• Devices, recruitment and staff retention

  Research suggests the technology used in the workplace can play a role in staff recruitment and retention  Continue Reading

• Disrupted everything: How Google will change our world

  While Apple could be the first company to hit a $1tn valuation, Google could be first to hit a $2tn market cap. But how will it get there?  Continue Reading

• Five questions every board should ask after Sony Pictures breach

  What can the board do to avoid having to answer embarrassing questions at the next shareholder meeting?  Continue Reading

• Driving Innovation with big data

  Rather than refusing the wider use of data outside the organisation, only by opening it up to third parties can we realise its true value  Continue Reading

• From poker to business and back again – playing the game of IT

  Of the many economic patterns organisations can exploit, one of the more interesting is a cycle known as 'peace, war and wonder'  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Prepare the defences for wiper malware

  To what extent should businesses worry about destructive, computer-killing malware, and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to prepare for computer-killing malware

  To what extent should businesses worry about computer-killing malware and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Monitoring and response capabilities key to mitigating cyber attack

  To what extent should businesses worry about malware and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Sony attack a reminder to protect company data

  To what extent should businesses worry about destructive, computer-killing malware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Mitigation strategies for data-wiping malware

  How much should businesses worry about computer-killing malware? And what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Turkey’s internet restrictions – a hindrance to the country’s IT ambitions?

  Legal experts examine recent changes to Turkish Internet Law and the potential impact on the country’s IT business environment  Continue Reading

• A blueprint for taking back control of email as a communication channel 

  A global blueprint for combating fraudulent email and taking back control of email as a communication channel  Continue Reading

• The internet of things: a second digital revolution worth trillions

  The government’s chief scientific adviser has released his long-awaited review on the internet of things  Continue Reading

• The legal issues facing UK businesses from wearable technology

  It is inevitable that wearable technology will be used more frequently in the workplace - but what are the legal considerations?  Continue Reading

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  Continue Reading

• The cyber security outlook for 2015

  The cyber security landscape will evolve rapidly and attacks will increase in number and sophistication, from a wider range of sources  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Data security basics for SMEs

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Making SME information security affordable

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Let’s get digital on the electoral curriculum for all our politicians

  More politicians need to understand how changing the business model of government through digital methods can help UK plc's bottom line  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to make Cyber Essentials work for SME security

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security on a shoestring budget

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• A practical framework for digital public service delivery

  There is a tension between governments’ need to be more flexible and agile, and the discipline to use standard platforms and open architecture  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2014 – success brings no rest

  This year’s Byte Night, the IT industry’s charity sleep-out, was the 17th annual fundraiser for Action for Children - and donations are already over £1m  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security questions to consider

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SMEs should put information and people at heart of security strategy

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Balancing agility and efficiency: Open architecture and platforms in government

  Increased flexibility in delivery models must be balanced with the architectural discipline to re-use, share, and consume common components  Continue Reading

• Simplicity as a digital differentiator

  This autumn, it seems that mobile payments are finally taking off  Continue Reading

• From service to strategy: the IT project management journey

  Evolving technology is creating opportunities for the IT project manager to move away from firefighting and towards influencing business strategy  Continue Reading

• The five trends shaping the future of work

  If there’s one thing that we can all agree on it’s that the world of work is changing…quickly.  Continue Reading

• Why excluding IT in M&A planning is a recipe for failure

  More than 60% of acquisitions fail to meet their goals within the planned timeframe  Continue Reading

• A phisher’s paradise

  Email is one of the earliest services created on the internet and, arguably, remains the most important  Continue Reading

• What businesses can learn from Buzzfeed’s success

  Buzzfeed has raised $50 million and is planning to use it to offer more content, expand its video production unit and open more offices  Continue Reading

• Why Twitter is the top tool for IT professionals

  As an IT professional you can be forgiven for thinking that LinkedIn is the only space to profile raise online. But consider Twitter  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading

• Exploring new business models for digital public service delivery

  Many public sector organisations appear overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the changes in public service delivery that they face  Continue Reading

• Germany and the UK - Europe’s technology pioneers

  Stephen Georgiadis, managing director at investment bank Altium, explores the thriving technology sectors in the UK and Germany  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use vulnerability management for Shellshock

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading

• Are ex-hackers the answer to addressing the cyber security skills gap?

  Harnessing existing expertise could address the demand for competence in countering cyber security threats  Continue Reading

• Toward digital government – what’s new?

  The UK has historically suffered a recurrent mismatch between political aspiration and any meaningful and sustained technical delivery  Continue Reading

• Digitisation, energy and the future of Europe

  Peter Terium, CEO of RWE AG, looks at how digitalisation and the increased demand on power is the third industrial revolution  Continue Reading

• Why public sector is losing the war for tech talent

  The problem the public sector faces is not how to transform to a digital government, but how to find the people to help do this  Continue Reading

• In the war for talent we need a public sector alliance

  Chi Onwurah discusses the challenges the public sector faces amid digital transformation and the important role of public sector workers  Continue Reading

• Revolutionising digital public service delivery

  Public sectors across the world are attempting a transition away from closed, top-down, bureaucratic, and paper-based transactional models  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patch Shellshock vulnerability without delay

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Isaca guide on tackling Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess the true scope of their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Businesses cannot afford to be complacent about Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Shellshock – check, patch, monitor

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Lessons from Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Guidelines for dealing with Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess the true scope of their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Seven strategies for limiting cloud data leakage

  What can IT teams do to ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud services?  Continue Reading

• Why digital governance and data protection matters

  In a digital world, new approaches to data protection and governance are vital for minimising risks and maximising performance  Continue Reading

• Government doesn’t get complexity

  Why do some government things go well and others not? The reason - complexity  Continue Reading

• Big data put to work in digital transformation strategies

  Accenture’s Mike Sutcliff and Narendra Mulani argue that the fuel energising the digital transformation of business is big data  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three-pronged approach to cloud security

  What can IT teams do to ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Control smart devices and apps like the rest of ICT

  What can IT security teams do to ensure users are not unwittingly synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud backup services?  Continue Reading

• The business benefits of the third platform

  Ron Tolido explains the benefits of the Open Group Open Platform 3.0  Continue Reading

• Nobody has a monopoly on digital leadership

  As IT becomes more strategic and pervasive, effective digital leadership is needed by just about every organisation  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three ways to reduce risk of cloud data leaks

  How can IT security teams ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud backup services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use governance strategy to manage cloud backups

  What can IT teams do to ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud services?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Celebrity photo leaks highlight cloud security issues

  What can IT teams do to ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud services?  Continue Reading

• How much mainstream IT capacity does mobility consume?

  The challenge for IT departments will be to quantify the impact of a growing number of mobile devices on their infrastructure  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Four gaps keeping you from delivering great customer experience

  To deliver a great experience, firms need to make interactions effective, easy and emotional for customers  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery for the masses?

  Can DR cover most applications, or is it still just for mission-critical services, asks analyst Tony Lock  Continue Reading

• What to expect from Europe’s NIS Directive

  With cyber crime on the rise, the European Union is trying to fight back with its NIS Directive. The five main points are oulined here  Continue Reading

• Bridging the digital divide with Byte Night

  Action for Children's IT director explains how the IT industry's Byte Night charity sleep-out is helping the charity's work  Continue Reading

• Government must be a platform entrepreneur to deliver 'digital 2.0'

  The government needs to start with a clear policy and architecture for digital 2.0  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business

  Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition?  Continue Reading

• Balancing user desires with business needs

  With users increasingly taking IT decisions into their own hands, businesses need to try harder to keep up  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: CIOs – demand an automated, standardised integration

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Eight steps to extending IAM to third parties

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading

• Leaving the UK workforce to its own devices

  Businesses are not designed for innovation. This notion is now being challenged by the rising trend of BYOD  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Apply internal security rules to third parties

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading

• Learning to lead and speak: Top skills for IT project managers

  IT project managers are now challenged with new career demands. They must think – and speak – like a leader.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Extending IAM controls to third parties

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading