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July 02, 2020 02Jul2020 News

Accenture to cut 900 UK staff

Accenture is cutting 900 jobs in the UK, as business levels drop amid the global Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading

July 02, 2020 02Jul2020 News

Telco edge to accompany 5G roll-outs in APAC

Pilot projects are underway in the Asia-Pacific to deploy telco edge infrastructure to support high-bandwidth, low-latency applications Continue Reading

July 02, 2020 02Jul2020 Opinion

Security Think Tank: AI cyber attacks will be a step-change for criminals

AI and machine learning techniques are said to hold great promise in security, enabling organisations to operate an IT predictive security stance and automate reactive measures when needed. Is this perception accurate, or is the importance of ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Blog Post

Keeping organisations in Singapore running during Covid-19

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services The onset of Covid-19 and mandatory lockdowns across the globe left organisations with limited time to react. Businesses had to keep ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Blog Post

Cloud staging: A strategy for desktop transformation

In this guest post, Jason E. Smith, vice president of products and solutions at virtual desktop provider Liquidware, makes the case for why enterprises need to embrace cloud staging to make their ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Blog Post

Doubling down with Nick Clegg

As the Stop Hate for Profit campaign inspires over 150 major companies and counting to pull their advertising from Facebook, its appeaser-in-chief has slid open his webcam cover and got back to ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

UK’s unsung cyber security heroes sought

Nominations have opened for the fifth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Zoom making progress on cyber security and privacy, says CEO

Three months after being hit by a spate of security incidents, Zoom’s CEO, Eric Yuan, has been discussing progress towards a more secure product Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Opinion

Getting a project out in the open

Open source has become widely accepted and used in corporate IT infrastructures, but IT leaders need to understand the potential pitfalls to make sure this approach brings the desired benefits Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

Transforming legacy systems, making use of real-time data and exploring emerging technologies are high on the agenda for the logistics giant’s IT team Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Remote workers more aware of security, but still flout the rules

Almost three-quarters of remote workers reckon they have gained in cyber security awareness during lockdown, but don’t seem to be especially bothered about keeping themselves safe Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Société Générale acquires fintech challenger bank

French bank acquires Shine to expand its services to small businesses and entrepreneurs Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Equity in STEM education more important than ever, says Parliamentary group

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in STEM suggests recommendations for increasing equity in education after stating coronavirus makes diversity increasingly important Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Mysterious EvilQuest macOS ransomware spreads through torrents

A new strain of ransomware, dubbed EvilQuest, is threatening Apple Mac environments, and seems to behave quite oddly Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 In Depth

Black Lives Matter, but do bots know that?

The volume of content generated each day necessitates automated moderation to curate everything as it is published, ensuring offensive and objectionable material is blocked. But this only works if systems are adequately configured and reviewed Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

UK government announces Office for Talent

The Office for Talent is part of a research and development roadmap, which includes an innovation programme to accelerate innovation in government Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

CIO Interview: Amex Global Business Travel CTO on incident response

American Express Global Business Travel adapted an existing incident response service to support staff and clients during the lockdown Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Opinion

Security Think Tank: Get your house in order before deploying AI

AI and machine learning techniques are said to hold great promise in security, enabling organisations to operate a IT predictive security stance and automate reactive measures when needed. Is this perception accurate, or is the importance of ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

FCA estimates about 2.6 million Brits have bought cryptocurrency

UK financial services regulator says there has been a significant increase in ownership of cryptocurrencies in the UK Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 Opinion

Time to rethink business continuity and cyber security

Business continuity and cyber security remain largely in separate silos, but changes in the IT and cyber threat landscapes mean there is an urgent need for organisations to alter their approach Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

Lenovo, top-of-the-world Chinese supercomputer supplier, sweeps all markets

Supercomputers are not just about computing power, they are a symbol of political ambition. Chinese supercomputer supplier Lenovo is now the dominant supplier across the world Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

How Propre eases its database management woes

Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint Continue Reading

July 01, 2020 01Jul2020 News

FakeSpy Android malware targets Royal Mail app users

The FakeSpy malware was first identified in October 2017 but is now significantly more powerful and dangerous Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Australia to invest a record A$1.35bn in cyber security

The Australian government is making its largest ever investment in cyber security over the next decade to identify cyber threats, disrupt foreign cyber criminals and build new capabilities Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

ReversingLabs makes over 100 Yara rules publicly available

Threat intelligence specialist is making its IP available on GitHub to support malware hunters in their work Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Partially accurate exposure notification may be best users get from UK contact tracing app

Renowned UK mobile expert warns that adoption, capability, privacy and user behaviour are issues yet to be addressed with UK contact-tracing app, and that results may not be worthwhile to overall fight against Covid-19 Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 Opinion

Security Think Tank: ‘Shift left’ to secure containers

Adopting containers promises great organisational efficiency advantages, but the fast-evolving technology can be problematic for security teams. What do CISOs need to know to safeguard containers? Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Microsoft joins up LinkedIn and GitHub to support pandemic job seekers

Millions of people have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus, and Microsoft wants to help by providing free online resources and real-time data on hot skills Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Remote working set to remain but so do management challenges

Businesses are preparing for staff to repopulate workplaces, while preparing for an inevitable increase in more flexible working Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

HMRC and Treasury accused of ‘direct interference’ in independent loan charge review

Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group report pours scorn on claims that December 2019 review of government’s disguised renumeration policy was conducted independently Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Government expands Future Fund eligibility criteria

The Future Fund will now be accessible to startups that have previously taken part in accelerator programmes, but early-stage firms continue to struggle Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

Business will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 Podcast

Digital art, datacentre futures and diversity – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discuss digital art, Covid-19’s likely lasting impact on the datacentre industry, and the lack of progress in diversity in IT Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Alibaba Cloud comes together with Aryaka for global, fully managed SD-WAN

Cloud-first WAN company claims to provide Chinese cloud giant with superior application performance to enterprise customers worldwide Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

BNP Paribas uses biometrics to increase contactless payment limit

French bank BNP Paribas is enabling customers to make higher value contactless payments through fingerprint-recognition technology Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Genomics England taps up AWS and Lifebit to create cloud-based Covid-19 research environment

Genomics England is looking to open up collaboration on Covid-19 genome datasets with researchers across the globe with new cloud-based research environment, which will be based on AWS and Lifebit’s technologies Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

The Security Interviews: What CISOs can learn from Covid-19

Mike Lloyd, CTO at Redseal, holds 21 cyber security patents and a PhD in stochastic epidemic modelling from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, so is probably the man to talk to when it comes to cyber security in the world of Covid-19 Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 Blog Post

Watch out for the mental shocks of ending Covid-19 lockdown

It’s easy to predict many of the pains that are going to hit business as the UK attempts to follow its neighbours in re-opening from lockdown. Businesses face a new and awkward world where social ... Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Complex security estates hinder incident response

The more disparate security tools in use in an organisation, the harder it becomes to mount an effective incident response Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 E-Zine

Unlocking value in the railway network’s data

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the rail industry is working to improve its use of data to deliver better services to passengers. Is flash the saviour of the storage universe? Our buyer’s guide assesses the choices for IT managers. ... Continue Reading

June 30, 2020 30Jun2020 News

Optus to test 5G mmWave technology

The Australian telco is testing mmWave technology using the 26GHz band at four locations in Sydney Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Nokia nets exclusive Taiwan Mobile 5G deal

Three-year deal sees Finnish comms tech provider selected as single supplier for 5G RAN, Core and IMS Taiwanese operator, continues 5G strategy focused on digital transformation and sustainability Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

MPs urged to back Finance Bill amendments to loan charge policy

Loan Charge Action Group urges its members to ask their MPs to support an amendment to the controversial loan charge policy that could see more people fall outside its scope Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Ericsson gets head of steam for 5G connectivity in European rail industry

Swedish tech supplier joins Association of the European Rail Supply Industry to show how next-generation networks can enable the industry to meet tomorrow’s IT and communications challenges Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Lawyers learn of fresh US allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from press reports

The US has filed an updated indictment against Julian Assange alleging that he conspired with hacking groups to obtain information for WikiLeaks. Defence and prosecution lawyers learned about it from press reports Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Phishing back in vogue as ransomware vector

Researchers have observed an increase in phishing as a means to deliver ransomware payloads – and organisations don’t appear to be prepared Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Go lean and embrace partnerships to plot a path for recovery

Starting with the lean principle of a minimum viable product, CIOs should aim to partner with outsourcers and IT suppliers to deliver business value Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Qumulo Shift opens up scale-out NAS to AWS S3 in the cloud

Qumulo Shift will automatically convert file data on its NAS arrays to S3 object storage format in the AWS cloud. The functionality will be free to customers from July Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Fund provides routes into digital for under-represented groups in Manchester and Lancashire

£3m fund is being used to help businesses and residents gain digital skills Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Evil Corp’s latest ransomware project spreading fast

A new ransomware strain dubbed WastedLocker is spreading rapidly and targeting major corporations Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

MPs to examine fairness of private prosecutions in light of Post Office IT scandal

Parliamentary Justice Committee to hold short inquiry into the rules and regulations surrounding private organisations’ ability to initiate criminal proceedings Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Post-pandemic security market still set for growth, but slower

Frost & Sullivan report says the global security industry will withstand the economic crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but growth will be slower for a few years Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

GCHQ launches Manchester accelerator programme to help firms leverage tech for citizen well-being

Innovation Co-Lab will mentor companies to grow, prevent crime and improve online safety Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 In Depth

How Malaysia’s industries are tapping IoT

Computer Weekly speaks to four industries that claim to have benefited from various IoT deployments and how it has changed their businesses Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Making the case for cloud-based security

Cloud-based security tools can hasten threat detection and response, but adoption will depend on where an enterprise is on the cloud readiness scale Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Lords urge government to take immediate action on online harms

Select committee calls for tech giants to be held responsible for the harm done to individuals, wider society and democratic processes through online misinformation Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Out of date security laws leave UK plc at risk during pandemic

The CyberUp coalition has written to Boris Johnson to urge him to reform the UK’s 30 year-old cyber crime laws Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

UKCloud signs MoU with CCS to provide public sector with discounted cloud pricing

Public sector-focused IaaS firm UKCloud has become the latest supplier to sign a discounted pricing deal with the UK government Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

IHS Markit commits to three-year data and infrastructure migration to AWS cloud

Global market research firm will downsize its datacentres and shift more of its infrastructure and applications to the AWS public cloud Continue Reading

June 29, 2020 29Jun2020 News

Airports deploy thermal cameras to control Covid-19, science suggests it’s merely ‘safety theatre’

UK airports are rolling out thermal surveillance cameras to identify people who may have coronavirus, but science says the technology is ineffective at detecting and preventing the spread of the disease Continue Reading

June 27, 2020 27Jun2020 Blog Post

Tibco Covid-19 tool follows the (data) science

The world runs on data, no news there. The world runs on connected, often unstructured, complex to wrangle, tough to clean, classify and log, hard to lock down and troublesome to monitor data… ... Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

Ford gets into gear with Vodafone 5G for future-proof electric vehicle production

Global automotive giant gains funding to implement and develop the potential of 5G in electric vehicle manufacturing processes in particular as regards cross-site connectivity Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

CBI: Government must take steps to drive SME business innovation

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how much can be achieved in a short period with a strong partnership between government and industry – and this needs to continue Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

Huawei gets green light for UK development centre

Chinese telecoms equipment provider sets out plans to build an optoelectronics R&D and manufacturing centre in the heart of Silicon Fen Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

95% of North American CIOs report remote work issues during lockdown

Employee password lockouts and inability to access on-premise applications were among the top challenges faced by CIOs in keeping remote workers up and running during lockdown Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

Standard Chartered embarks on virtual internship programme

Bank offers 300 candidates virtual placements on internship programme Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 In Depth

Will the Covid-19 crisis accelerate a shift in tech talent out of London?

As the coronavirus pandemic has forced firms to work more flexibly, threatening traditional large office spaces in London, will tech talent make a long-term shift away from the capital? Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 Blog Post

Modern development - GitLab: What is not modern (in software development)

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ... Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 Blog Post

Modern development - Cohesity: Defining a new rhythm for the paroxysms of data schism

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ... Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

Coronavirus: Cyber crime landscape evolving as lockdown eases

As some countries begin to gradually ease Covid-19 lockdown measures, cyber criminals’ tactics are changing, but the pandemic remains a tempting lure Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 Opinion

Australian government has failed on cyber security

The federal government’s current approach of allowing each agency to make its own cyber decisions is not working and more needs to be done to hunt down adversaries Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 News

Enterprises in rural Wales to gain added fibre as voucher scheme doubles in value

Vouchers subsidise the cost for rural homes and businesses to install next-generation, gigabit-capable broadband Continue Reading

June 26, 2020 26Jun2020 Blog Post

MLflow Project joins Linux Foundation

What’s better than a machine learning platform? Answer: an en-to-end machine learning platform, obviously. What’s better than an end-to-end machine learning platform? Answer: an open source ... Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

NHSX seeks evolution of digital transformation capabilities

New approaches and team structures could be tested as a result of learnings from the work around Covid-19 Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 Blog Post

SASE And Cato; The Fit...

As promised in the previous blog, given the seeming importance of SASE, here’s more definition in terms of what briefings with Cato Networks revealed. If we look at the key areas where SASE and ... Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

UK, US workers report ‘overwhelmingly’ positive experiences of remote working

Study finds that despite challenges, mass remote working due to Covid-19 has been a net benefit on both sides of the Atlantic, suggesting companies should maintain some degree of flexible working Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

Pub ‘check-in’ apps provoke fresh privacy concerns

With pubs and restaurants required to collect customer data for contact tracing when they reopen, data privacy risks will be heightened Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

Former Post Office CEO and Fujitsu play the blame game in Horizon IT scandal

Post Office and Fujitsu blame each other for many of the failings in the Horizon IT scandal that wrecked lives Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

CBI: UK needs an immigration and training rethink

For the UK to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, vast swathes of the population will need retraining – and overseas IT specialists will also be needed Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

Nebulon emerges with software-defined storage, but from the cloud

Startup to offer on-site storage with local I/O and some controller functionality in the cloud, combining software-defined and cloud to bring “fleet management at scale” Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

CBI: Digital economy needs joined-up regulations and gigabit broadband

The coronavirus pandemic has shown the need for fast, reliable networking across the UK. The CBI is urging the government to do more Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

Verizon and Digital Catapult create enterprise 5G accelerator programme

Venture will enable retail and brand partners to work directly with UK startups and tech innovators to explore 5G-enabled solutions Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 In Depth

Diversity in coding bootcamps

Coding bootcamp operators must actively engage with issues of access, diversity and inclusion if they want to stop reproducing the same gendered, racialised and class-based outcomes the tech sector keeps promising to address Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

Peer-to-peer lender Zopa gets full banking licence

Peer-to-peer lending pioneer works towards creating the ‘Netflix of banking’ Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 In Depth

Digitally mapping for solidarity and cooperation

How digital mapping tools can be used to promote solidarity and cooperation between enterprises, groups and individual organisers with a strong social purpose Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

HMRC yet to begin building UK border IT system

The UK government has still not built its Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) IT system, despite the end of the Brexit transition period looming, while the Port of Dover’s head of EU exit proposes just licensing the French IT system instead Continue Reading

June 25, 2020 25Jun2020 News

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