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• Security Think Tank: How to evolve SecOps capacity

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Does artificial intelligence have a language problem?

  As AI 'learns' from human input, the language we use becomes an increasingly important consideration  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Take care of security basics before automating

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How automation can reduce the load on the security operations team

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• 3, 2, 1, GDPR: How to be prepared on 25 May

  There are seven key areas organisations should review to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, and even though the deadline is less than four months away, it is still not too late to start  Continue Reading

• Safer Internet Day: Building online safety practices with young people

  Many organisations around the UK are contributing to the important work on making the internet a safer place for everyone  Continue Reading

• How to achieve a healthy, balanced relationship with your ERP provider

  Observing the enterprise software market today is like observing a major relationship crisis where one side is failing to listen to the other  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Approaches to strengthening security operations

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Europe’s shameful role in spy-tech exports that led to torture and jail

  Governments in Europe actively assisted in government oppression in Iran, Bahrain and Russia by providing states with sophisticated surveillance equipment. The European Parliament is pressing for changes in the law to restrict exports of ...  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Automating basic security tasks

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Don’t automatically automate security

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Establish best practice before automating security processes

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• Bitcoin is a bubble, but manias can have economic benefits

  The UK's railway mania, the tulip bubble, the dot com boom and other collective economic madness – such as bitcoin – might lose people a lot of money, but they often lay down important foundations  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Humans and AI machines in harmony

  How can organisations evolve their security operations teams to do more automation of basic tasks and cope with dynamic IT environments?  Continue Reading

• We must avoid the Brexit risks to London's tech community

  London's chief digital officer warns of the risks to jobs, innovation and investment if the UK pursues a hard Brexit when leaving the EU  Continue Reading

• Blockchain’s promise goes beyond fintech

  By reducing the cost of peer-to-peer data and resource transfer, blockchain can remove the need for third parties and middlemen across industries  Continue Reading

• Zero in on your zero-day vulnerabilities

  A zero-day attack comes, by definition, out of the blue. You cannot predict its nature or assess how much damage it might cause, but you can take some basic steps to protect yourself from a potentially crippling cyber strike  Continue Reading

• Why CryptoKitties shows the future of humanity in the robot age

  Spending millions on blockchain-based cat collectibles might seem trivial, but it explains why economists aren’t worried about robots taking all our jobs  Continue Reading

• Building on the UK tech sector’s momentum in 2018

  The UK’s digital and tech industry made great progress in 2017, and the government aims to further its support in 2018, says digital minister  Continue Reading

• What a year it’s been for tech in the UK

  2017 was the year technology rose to prominence in government and business agendas – and the sector needs to keep that momentum going into 2018  Continue Reading

• How to boost your personal brand as an IT professional

  Seven steps to help you build a personal brand in the workplace, articulate the value you provide and build your professional reputation  Continue Reading

• How to futureproof your career as a CIO

  Many CIOs have yet to earn the right to be on the board. How can IT leaders upgrade their business acumen, to benefit their own careers and the health of their employer?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Encourage employees to use an approved messaging app

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use policy and guidance to help secure messaging apps

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Educate, enforce policy and monitor to ensure messaging security

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps, and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Policy key to limiting messaging app security risks

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• How to attract investors for your enterprise software startup

  Are you looking to find an investor for your enterprise software company? This expert advice explains what investors will be looking to find in an innovative software business seeking backing  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ensure incident response in the face of inevitable messaging leaks

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• There are no economic reasons to regulate the US tech giants

  The likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft may dominate their markets, but the economic argument to regulate them is weak  Continue Reading

• Government’s cyber security policy: decide or delay?

  The UK government is leaving too many of its options open and needs to implement effective cyber security rules now  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four steps to securing messaging apps

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use technical controls and policy to secure messaging apps

  What criteria should organisations use to assess the security of smartphone messaging apps and how can they ensure only approved apps are used by employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three things to do differently to secure websites in the cloud

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• My brother Lauri Love should have the right to a trial in the UK

  Lauri Love should face trial over hacking allegations in a British Court, rather than be extradited to the US, where his extraordinary skills will be lost to society, says his younger sister  Continue Reading

• The legal quagmire of creativity in artificial intelligence

  AI holds the promise to solve problems beyond the scope of human imagination. But if an AI can create, who owns its work?  Continue Reading

• How artificial intelligence and digitisation is transforming Australia

  Australia is being transformed by artificial intelligence and digitisation, particularly in areas such as education and public safety  Continue Reading

• Can the 2017 Budget dispel the tech sector’s gloom over Brexit?

  The chancellor needs to send a strong signal that government is committed to making the UK the best place to be a tech business post-Brexit  Continue Reading

• Bringing more of the top global tech talent to the UK

  The government wants to ensure the most highly talented technology and digital experts from overseas can work in the UK, writes home secretary Amber Rudd  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Why the UK’s visa expansion is important to the tech sector

  Following the government’s decision to expand the UK’s visa scheme for overseas talent, home secretary Amber Rudd tells Computer Weekly why this will help the UK tech sector  Continue Reading

• Why UK police are learning cyber forensics

  The need for the UK police force to conduct forensic investigations on computers is nothing new, but a rapid escalation of cyber crime has demanded a different approach  Continue Reading

• Empowerment is the key to a connected society

  It's not just technology that will determine our digital future – the ethical, social and political decisions taken now will have an impact on all of us  Continue Reading

• Why Europe’s GDPR privacy regulation is good for business

  Organisations will need to become more sensitive about the way they handle personal information, but the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also makes good business sense  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Web security guidelines from FS-ISAC

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Embrace the new normal – re-platform your cloud services

  Huge improvements in cloud technology are opening up markets and solutions that previously didn’t exist. But complacent suppliers often don’t offer these innovations to long-established customers  Continue Reading

• A guide for businesses to China’s first cyber security law

  Companies that break China’s new cyber security law may be fined or even have their licence to trade in the country removed  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Web security down to good risk management

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Approaches to effective web security

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Look at full security development lifecycle to reduce web threats

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Newspaper woes show that when technology changes, everything changes

  Traditionalists bemoan the declining finances of newspapers, but those old sources of revenue aren't coming back – technology has changed everything  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Risk assess all web connections to shore up security

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Three areas of web security challenges

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Dmarc email validation – we're doing it all wrong

  Dmarc is a hugely important way to reduce email fraud – just ask HMRC – but it also makes email marketing campaigns far more effective  Continue Reading

• How augmented reality can boost worker effectiveness

  More than just offering rich media experiences, augmented reality has the potential to lower cost and improve productivity across industries  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Secure your web applications without prejudice

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Web opportunities must be met with appropriate security controls

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Starter for 10 in the web security challenge

  What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?  Continue Reading

• A history of hacking and hackers

  A security professional’s view on criminal hacking has shifted away from the traditional stereotype of the hacker, towards a much more diverse cross-section of wider society  Continue Reading

• Is it time to stop blaming organisations for being breached?

  The IT security industry needs to look at itself and its practices before blaming organisations that have been hit by cyber attacks  Continue Reading

• Cloud pricing: Are per-second billing models really needed?

  Clive Longbottom looks at the growing complexity of cloud pricing models, and weighs up the value of per-second billing  Continue Reading

• Open data, democracy and public service reform

  Discussion around reforming public services is as important as better information sharing rules if government is to make the most of public data  Continue Reading

• How will the UK supercharge its digital economy?

  The country needs to focus on the key issues it faces to make the most of the opportunities presented by the digital revolution  Continue Reading

• Will the review of Gov.uk Verify fix the UK's digital identity problems?

  The rumoured review of the UK government’s identity assurance programme provides the ideal opportunity to fix problems and accelerate progress  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: If you are not measuring, are you really defending?

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics helps find needles in haystacks

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Max Schrems’s mass surveillance complaint knocked back another year or two by Irish judge

  Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon has neatly avoided having to deal with the US surveillance of Facebook users in Europe by referring a complaint by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Be selective when it comes to security analytics

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics can provide serious value

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics augments human capabilities

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Is the tide going out for transatlantic data flows?

  Businesses face new uncertainty over their ability to share data with the US, as Europe’s highest court reassesses the legality of the EU’s model data-sharing contracts  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics may not be for everyone

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics requires talent and experience

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Don’t complain about tech giants paying out to shareholders – it’s how innovation begins

  Critics of publicly quoted technology giants say they should invest profits before paying out to shareholders – but that would stifle innovation elsewhere  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics needs serious resources

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• How and why to conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis

  An ethical hacker’s insights into how and why organisations should conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis based on nine years’ experience conducting penetration tests for hundreds of organisations  Continue Reading

• GDPR for the CIO: Data protection is about more than GDPR compliance

  If you approach GDPR as if compliance is all that matters, then you're bound to fail – data protection should be at the heart of business strategy  Continue Reading

• Passive optical LAN: When network speed, bandwidth and security matter

  Copper-based local area networks are increasingly unfit for purpose in a digital enterprise, but passive optical LANs may be a solution. Tech evangelist Paul Ryan, European chair of the Association of Passive Optical LAN, explains why  Continue Reading

• How to make the right technology choice

  Organisations need digital technology, but how do you decide which is the best technology for you? The answer is not to make one big decision, but many small ones. Thinking about technology, behaviour and data will help you find the right answers  Continue Reading

• More hospitals in APAC adopting IT to bolster patient care

  Healthcare providers in the APAC region are looking to the cloud and big data analytics to enhance services and lower cost  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Cyber resilience cheaper than attack recovery

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• The digital economy is making us poorer - but that can't be right

  Use of WhatsApp as an example of productivity growth and economic measures tells us we're worse off. Are we therefore measuring the numbers wrongly?  Continue Reading

• The children of the digital revolution

  Digital professionals are emerging as the source of expertise within the agile enterprise. They understand how to use digital technologies, starting small then building big  Continue Reading

• How technology is disrupting the travel market

  Travel apps and online booking services that make it easy to book air tickets and customise travel plans are disrupting the travel market  Continue Reading

• Legal hurdles cloud Max Schrems complaint over US spying

  The Irish High Court in Dublin has embarked on a long hearing into the legality of standard contractual clauses. It is a sideshow from the real issue – the legality of US surveillance in the UK and Ireland  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four simple ways of blocking cyber attackers

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Six ways to boost cyber resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Strategies for surviving a cyber attack

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patching, backup and access control key to resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Resilience means preparing for unpreventable cyber threats

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Look to frameworks, guidance and legislation to boost resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are robust/resilient?  Continue Reading

• The NIS Directive: the implications for UK technology businesses

  With the European Union NIS Directive to be implemented into UK law in May 2018, it is important for technology companies to ascertain if and how they will be affected  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No one-size-fits-all security solution

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are robust/resilient?  Continue Reading

• The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

  Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules  Continue Reading

• Strategy in business and learning to map – should you take the blue pill or the red pill?

  Devising business strategy means more than gut feel or copying others – the technique of mapping offers a better way to competitive advantage  Continue Reading

• The Google memo on diversity should be a learning opportunity

  Google's knee-jerk reaction did not tackle the root cause of the controversial employee memo  Continue Reading

• The Data Protection Bill is about securing UK data leadership

  The UK's new data protection legislation is vital to a successful Brexit and for continued UK leadership in technology  Continue Reading

• Unleashing digital talent for fun and profit

  With all the talk of data as the ‘new oil’, organisations can easily forget that talent – people – are the heart of delivering digital change  Continue Reading

• How creative and innovative can technology made in China be?

  China's IT industry is becoming more Silicon Valley-like and, as a result, more attractive to the CIOs of western enterprises  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use a combination of approaches to create cyber safe work environments

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five security controls to keep employees out of cyber firing line

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use the work environment to educate on cyber security

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading