IT strategy
IT strategy (information technology strategy) is a comprehensive plan that outlines how technology should be used to meet IT and business goals.. See complete definition.
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News
24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training Continue Reading
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E-Zine
24 Jun 2025
Digital ID: cool or contentious?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dig into the discourse surrounding the proposal to roll out a national digital identity scheme across the UK, and hear from HPE’s CIO on what he’s learned from his time previously working as an IT chief in the retail sector. We round out the buyer’s guide to cloud repatriation with a look at what’s driving the trend, before concluding the issue with a look at the controversy surrounding quantum computing. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2025
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2025
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Jun 2025
Clouded judgement: Resilience, risk and the rise of repatriation
Geopolitics, data sovereignty and rising costs are driving a change in cloud thinking, but it’s slow progress Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2025
Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily
The number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2025
M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts
The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2025
Government hires chief data officer
Former MoD data chief, Lindsay Mason, has taken on the role of chief data officer in earl on a temporary basis while government recruits for a permanent position Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2025
Execs shy away from open models and open source AI
The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Microsoft declares era of logical qubits
The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector
UK government says its cyber growth action plan will provide a large boost to Britain’s security industry as it sets out to create a roadmap for future growth Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Scattered Spider widens web to target insurance sector
Following a series of high-profile attacks on prominent retailers and consumer brands, the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective appears to be expanding its targeting to the insurance sector Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
IBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Patients to access clinical trials via NHS App
As government plans a £50m upgrade of the NHS App, people will be able to sign up to clinical trials that will match them to available studies Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology Continue Reading
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Podcast
17 Jun 2025
AI and technical debt: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We find out how bet365 is using generative AI to understand legacy code to boost its modernisation programme Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2025
Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption
Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2025
Intelligence sharing key to cyber security in Europe, says EU Commission cyber expert
Cyber criminals choose not to attack Europe due to its resilience and preparedness, says the EU Commission’s principal advisor for cyber security coordination, Despina Spanou Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2025
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2025
Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot
The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2025
Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative
The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2025
France is committed to AI, says president Macron
The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’ Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review
The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Jun 2025
Cyber security beyond compliance: Why resilience is the new boardroom imperative
Cyber security has been everything from a tick-box exercise to a compliance headache for organisations - but the pressing threats we face mean cyber resilience must become a boardroom issue Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Jun 2025
Human vs digital therapy: AI falls short when IT pros need help
Stressed IT and cyber professionals are turning to AI chatbots for support, but is handing people's mental wellbeing over to algorithms really such a bright idea? Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Jun 2025
Investor behaviour in the wake of cyber's 'black swan' moment
So-called Black Swan events expose the blind spots in even the most sophisticated forecasting models, signaling a need to rethink how businesses, and those investing in them, quantify and prepare for cyber risk. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands
Calls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
How breaking things builds resilient systems
To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems though chaos engineering practices Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders
Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs
An APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jun 2025
Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector
In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2025
UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri
Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jun 2025
IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service
Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2025
Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation
From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Jun 2025
Escaping an X
In this week’s Computer Weekly, the public’s changing relationship with social media is put under the microscope, as users become discomforted by changing content moderation policies. HMRC’s hunt for a hyperscaler to oversee a 10-year datacentre exit project has proven controversial – we examine the issues. And we hear from Virgin Atlantic’s vice-president of data and artificial intelligence about the company’s efforts to improve the customer experience. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2025
The importance of simplifying IT: enterprise capability without the complexity
This is a guest blogpost by Ian Tickle, SVP and GM International at Freshworks. Most IT leaders aren’t looking to be dazzled by the latest AI trends. What they really want is straightforward: ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2025
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Jun 2025
How to increase business value with AI agents
To overcome the complexity of deploying agentic AI at scale, organisations must mix and match capabilities, understand key limitations, and take an agile approach to implementation Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
Whitehall fails to recognise digital procurement challenge, says PAC
Committee concerned that Government Commercial Function doesn’t understand the scale of reform needed to address long-standing digital procurement issues, including lack of skills and leadership Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
HMRC phishing breach wholly avoidable, but hard to stop
A breach at HMRC saw innocent taxpayers tricked into letting scammers impersonate them through simple phishing attacks leading to account takeover. Such attacks are avoidable, but hard to stop Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Jun 2025
CISOs: Don't block AI, but adopt it with eyes wide open
The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy Continue Reading
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News
05 Jun 2025
Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive
Putting all of its data in AWS cloud will support bank’s use of artificial intelligence to offer customers more personalised services Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Put ROCs before SOCs, Qualys tells public sector
Putting risk operations before security operations may help government agencies and other public sector bodies better manage the myriad threats they face, and make better decisions for the security of all Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
NCSC sets out how to build cyber safe cultures
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance for security teams and leaders on how to foster accessible and appropriate cyber security cultures in their organisations Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Microsoft outlines three-pronged European cyber strategy
Microsoft chair Brad Smith outlines an expansive cyber programme targeting governments across Europe with enhanced threat intelligence and support Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 Jun 2025
Fortifying the future: The pivotal role of CISOs in AI operations
The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Jun 2025
Dutch university’s rapid response saved it from ransomware devastation
Eindhoven University of Technology has planned multi-factor authentication and regularly practised cyber crisis drills – yet it still fell victim to attackers who exploited gaps in its defences Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Interview: Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer, Ordnance Survey
The UK mapping service has moved on a long way from paper maps as it now looks to use artificial intelligence to understand, interpret and derive insights from geographical data Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2025
Open source adoption faces reality checks
Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges Continue Reading
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Opinion
03 Jun 2025
Preparing for AI: The CISO’s role in security, ethics and compliance
The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2025
HMRC aims to improve customer service with £1.5bn IT investment
The department is on the hunt for customer relationship management system and contact centre as a service suppliers, following criticism of its customer service Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2025
SailPoint charts course for AI-driven identity security
SailPoint is driving the use of agentic AI in identity security with its Harbor Pilot offering while preparing to help enterprises govern and secure AI agents Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2025
US cyber agency CISA faces stiff budget cuts
CISA is one of several US agencies facing drastic budget cuts under the Trump administration Continue Reading
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Opinion
02 Jun 2025
The hidden security risks of open source AI
The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2025
Cyber and digital get over £1bn to enhance UK’s national security
The government has set out plans to spend over a billion pounds on digital and cyber warfare capabilities to enhance the UK’s ability to defend itself and fight offensive wars Continue Reading
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Opinion
02 Jun 2025
AI security: Balancing innovation with protection
The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2025
NPCC calls for better tech investment
The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities Continue Reading
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News
02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach Continue Reading
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Opinion
30 May 2025
Rethinking secure comms: Are encrypted platforms still enough?
A leak of information on American military operations caused a major political incident in March 2025. The Security Think Tank considers what CISOs can learn from this potentially fatal error Continue Reading
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Feature
30 May 2025
How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools
It’s now essential for IT security teams to have oversight of cloud computing, and AWS offers a plethora of tools to make managing it easier. Find out how cyber pros are using them in the wild Continue Reading
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Opinion
30 May 2025
What VMware’s licensing crackdown reveals about control and risk
An assessments of the risks VMware customers on perpetual licences now need to consider Continue Reading
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News
30 May 2025
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud Continue Reading
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Opinion
29 May 2025
Signalgate is a signal to revisit security onboarding and training
A leak of information on American military operations caused a major political incident in March 2025. The Security Think Tank considers what can CISOs can learn from this potentially fatal error. Continue Reading
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Opinion
29 May 2025
Zero-trust is redefining cyber security in 2025
The future of zero-trust is about embedding resilience into every facet of an organisation. To achieve this, SRM leaders must reimagine their strategies to address emerging challenges and prioritise key areas. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 May 2025
AI and compliance: Staying on the right side of law and regulation
Without careful planning, AI projects risk blundering into a legal and regulatory minefield. We look at the risks from hallucinations, basic errors and coming regulation Continue Reading
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Podcast
29 May 2025
AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation
Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading
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Feature
28 May 2025
AI and compliance: What are the risks?
We look at the areas of risk in artificial intelligence. Potential exposures abound, and include security and privacy issues, bias, accuracy and complete fabrication of results Continue Reading
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News
28 May 2025
ANZ firms spending more on data management
Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds Continue Reading
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News
28 May 2025
Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers
Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2025
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2025
US makes fresh indictments over DanaBot, Qakbot malwares
US charges the operators of two malwares, DanaBot and Qakbot, whose actions led to millions of dollars worth of cyber theft and fraud Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2025
Armed forces charity steps in to address cyber mental health crisis
CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 May 2025
Building resilient cyber threat intelligence communities
Cyber threat intelligence is no longer a luxury: intelligence sharing communities must mature, and there are many common lessons to learn. Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 May 2025
Security vs. usability: Why rogue corporate comms are still an issue
A leak of information on American military operations caused a major political incident in March 2025. The Security Think Tank considers what can CISOs can learn from this potentially fatal error. Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2025
Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic
The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience Continue Reading
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Feature
27 May 2025
Preparation and appreciation – the human factor in incident response
A typical incident response effort is highly technical, so where do soft skills come in and how do you know how effective your team is? We look at a measurement option and the human consideration in these scenarios Continue Reading
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E-Zine
27 May 2025
UK eVisa: Ethical or harmful?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the criticism being levelled at government proposals to use electronic visa data and biometrics to surveil migrants living in the UK. We also hear from a noted cyber pro about why he thinks the Computer Misuse Act is ripe for reform. And we find out everything there is to know about retrieval augmented generation architectures and how they can be used to infuse generative artificial intelligence (AI) into a business context. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 May 2025
What are the best practices for securing AWS tech stacks?
An AWS tech stack can aid business growth and facilitate efficient operations, but misconfigurations have become all too common and stall this progress Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2025
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2025
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2025
Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware
Microsoft, along with a consortium of partners, has seized and disrupted a significant part of the Lumma malware-as-a-service network used to steal data and funds Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2025
Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM
Industry-specific large language models could improve customer services, strengthen security and support regulatory compliance Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2025
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt
Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July
M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations
The NCSC and its partner agencies have blown the whistle on an extensive campaign of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by the Russian state Fancy Bear operation Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The IT chief of one of the world’s biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right – and he’s building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users Continue Reading
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Podcast
21 May 2025
Podcast: RSA 2025 – AI’s risk surface and the role of the CISO
We review RSA 2025 with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge who looks at the impacts on compliance of AI’s expanding risk surface, the role of the CISO, and a changed supplier approach Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month
Reported ransomware attacks eased off during April following a dramatic spike in the first quarter of 2025 Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2025
Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse
Millions more pounds of public money spent by the Post Office as a result of an IT error that exposed the personal details of Horizon victims Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2025
Retail cyber attacks hit food distributor Peter Green Chilled
Cold chain services provider Peter Green Chilled, which supplies the likes of Aldi, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, has been forced to halt operations after succumbing to a ransomware attack Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2025
Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model
Rio Tinto’s head of technology platforms outlines the mining giant’s move to an IT platform model designed to escape a reactive cycle of critical incidents and improve service quality for internal and external customers Continue Reading
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E-Zine
20 May 2025
Tackling the UK’s cyber threats
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the National Cyber Security Centre’s annual update on the state of UK security and examine the emerging threats. The chief data officer of Standard Chartered bank discusses preparing for artificial intelligence. We also look at the networking implications of GPU-based AI datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2025
Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers
A Washington DC-based think tank has published evidence that Chinese intelligence services have been running a network of digital ‘front’ companies targeting laid-off government workers as recruits Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2025
Legal Aid Agency breach may encompass millions of people
Legal Aid Agency says the data of anybody who applied for legal aid over the past 15 years has been compromised in a cyber attack Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2025
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library Continue Reading
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News
16 May 2025
The Security Interviews: David Faugno, 1Password
David Faugno, co-CEO of 1Password, discusses how his background led to him joining the company and why maintaining profitability is a key factor in overcoming the challenges of switching markets. Continue Reading