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More than 1,300 teachers trained by National Centre for Computing Education

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Government-funded centre aimed at supporting computing teachers has reached more than 29,000 teachers and trained over 1,300 to deliver computing ...

People not offered help to improve digital skills, BCS finds

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A large number of people feel they have not been provided with enough help to increase their digital skills during lockdown

2021 the year of commodity ransomware, says Sophos

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Sophos researchers anticipate a trickle-down effect in the cyber criminal underground

Konvoy Group to track keg fleet with IoT

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Australian supplier of rental kegs to breweries is deploying beacons to monitor the location and temperature of 70,000 kegs in Australia and New ...

IT Priorities 2020: ‘Benestrophe’ for networking as UK IT departments come to terms with new normal

News | ComputerWeekly.com

As 2020 ends, all traditional bets are off as Covid-19 completely changes the landscape of IT, with secure connectivity and cloud emerging at the ...

Supply delays hitting some customers

News | MicroScope

Brexit is looming and there are delays at the ports – and that is having an impact in the channel and among its customers

UK offering relatively poor value for broadband services

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Low absolute pricing is among the region’s best, but lower average speeds compared with much of Europe makes the UK one of the continent’s laggards ...

Microsoft slots 22 patches for August Patch Tuesday

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Windows, IE, Visio, .Net, Visual Studio and Report Viewer to get security updates; updated version of Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on ...

APAC plagued by APT, ransomware attacks

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The Asia-Pacific region was a primary target of advanced persistent threat groups, mostly from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, that carried out ...

Horiba Mira accelerates autonomous vehicles with Vodafone 4G and 5G

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Expert in engineering driverless technologies partners with leading UK operator to bring 5G to its Nuneaton headquarters with a private mobile ...

Inadequate home internet speeds contribute to ‘digital divide’ during UK lockdown

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Survey reveals connectivity speeds are considered inadequate in 30% of properties and over one-third admit to judging the competence of colleagues ...

Security-Herausforderungen in 5G-Netzen

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.de

5G-Netze sind modernen Netzwerken mit Cloud- und Virtualisierungsfunktionen ähnlich. Das bringt Agilität, erhöht aber auch die Angriffsfläche, meint ...

ZSL uses Google Cloud and machine learning to protect endangered species from poachers

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The Zoological Society of London opens up about the work it has done with the Google Cloud team to protect endangered species from poachers

Why consultation helps IT service providers keep customers for longer

Opinion | MicroScope

Managed service providers need to focus on the ‘partner’ aspect of their role, says Mav Turner, group vice-president of products for SolarWinds MSP

Cato collects $130m investment to extend SASE proposition

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New funding round for SASE pioneer Cato, the largest to date for the company, brings total financing to $332m, leading to what the company calls a ...

Vodafone, Ericsson trial automated flight paths for connected drones

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UK fixed and mobile operator and comms technology provider take to the sky to ensure safe passage for drones

HelloKitty almost certainly behind CD Projekt ransomware attack

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Theories that the cyber attack on a high-profile gaming studio was orchestrated by players who are disappointed in a videogame are likely wide of the...

D-Link sets sights on MSP growth

News | MicroScope

Networking player D-Link wants to grow its channel base in 2021, with managed service providers among its targets

Société Générale adopts work-from-home policy

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French bank formalises remote working policy after discussions with labour unions

Oracle fleshes out hybrid cloud and edge computing strategy with Roving Edge Infrastructure devices

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Database software giant Oracle continues to build out its hybrid cloud product and services strategy, with a focus on helping enterprises build out ...

Vendors court managed service community with enhancements and programmes

News | MicroScope

Schneider, Datto, Secureworks, Group-IB and SecureDrives have all made moves to reach out to a wider channel base

Numbers stack up for UK open banking three years on

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Three years have passed since open banking regulations came into force and momentum is gathering

Unforeseen consequences of new technologies put UK at risk

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Lords committee told that the risks associated with various emerging digital technologies must be assessed together, with input from UK citizens, if ...

Megan Wilcox

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Megan Wilcox is a senior graphic designer for the TechTarget Editorial team.

Caroline Dinenage

Contributor | TechTarget

Caroline Dinenage is minister for digital and culture at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

7. Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech Nation

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Ericsson sets sail with enhanced maritime connectivity

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Swedish tech provider aims to rectify lack of options for at-sea communications where traditional satellite comms have seen high prices, high latency...

How Slack helped to support Re:Act’s Covid-19 relief effort

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Collaboration platform helped get volunteers on board as the relief agency began a coordinated effort to support the NHS and communities

Saj Huq

Contributor | TechTarget

Saj Huq leads cyber innovation at Plexal and is director of Lorca, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement.

Poor data leads to IT squabbles and work stress

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Covid-19 has boosted IT in business, but IT workers feel they are overworked and are often in conflict with colleagues. Can better data help?

Digital infrastructure flourishes in 2020

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Study from co-operative trade association for next-generation broadband services notes increased industry investment and roll-out growth, marking a ...

SES beams high-throughput loopback services to US DoD

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Government solutions division of Luxembourg-based satellite operator uses O3b medium earth orbit constellation to deliver mission-critical ...

Revealed: Brits who fuelled ‘vicious’ conspiracy theory by Trump supporters

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Trump supporters have apologised and paid millions in damages to the family of murdered Democratic Party staffer Seth Rich for promoting false ...

Subpostmasters want £300m from a government that allowed Post Office ‘reign of terror’

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The government allowed the Post Office to “run amok” and destroy lives, says complaint to Parliamentary Ombudsman

Finnish finance giant pilots fingerprint payments

News | ComputerWeekly.com

OP Financial introduces biometric security technology to enable higher-value payments to be made safely using contactless cards

SysGroup’s first-half figures show resilience in the face of Covid-19

News | MicroScope

MSP SysGroup shares the progress it has made through the worst of the coronavirus lockdown

OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, prepares for 17 December launch

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UK government and Bharti Global confirmed as new owners of low-cost satellite broadband provider, which emerges from financial woes to eye up ...

Manchester United praised for swift response to cyber attack

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Manchester United’s systems were attacked last week, and the club has been praised for a swift and decisive response

Zen to offer gigabit broadband over CityFibre networks

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Zen Internet becomes former altnet’s third national consumer ISP to offer full-fibre services to consumers with gigabit-speed consumer broadband ...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals gets new imaging tech

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The hospital trust is the first of six in a Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC) to deploy technology to underpin the programme

MPs subjected to over 22 million malicious email attacks in 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Members of Parliament are targeted by millions of spam and phishing emails every month, according to a Freedom of Information disclosure

Love (and impact sourcing) in the time of Covid

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Amanda Lewis, a lawyer specialising in IT outsourcing, describes the diversity and inclusion work of Digital Divide Data

BT Wholesale and IDNet move to beat PSTN switch-off

News | MicroScope

Comms player reminds channel partners of the need to talk about IP solutions ahead of changes coming in just a few years

Lax Android app developers putting millions of users at risk

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Eight months after Google patched a critical vulnerability, developers have failed to update their apps, putting millions of users of apps such as ...

The government’s ‘blue skies’ funding agency lacks purpose, MPs find

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The £800m research and development funding agency announced in December 2019, lacks a clear purpose so far, according to the Science and Technology ...

UK to launch 'high-risk, high-reward' research agency, dubbed ARIA

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Backed by £800m of public investment, the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA) will identify and fund groundbreaking science and technology

Tech Data kicks off second wave of AWS Practice Builder scheme

News | MicroScope

Distributor builds on scheme that started back in June, inviting more partners to get skilled up

Interest in UK digital talent visa surges despite pandemic

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Tech Nation, the endorsing body for the digital technology route of the UK’s Global Talent Visa, has seen a 48% increase in applications over the ...

Spending Review commits £32m to Gov.uk Accounts

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Government Digital Service’s Gov.uk Accounts project will allow people to sign into government services online and get a personalised experience ...

Pioneering companies use AI to drive profit

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The latest research from McKinsey shows that there is a strong correlation between an organisation's artificial intelligence maturity and ...

How to modernise identity governance and administration

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Modernising identity governance and administration (IGA) capabilities is essential for organisations to manage identities effectively to ensure they ...

US cyber security chief fired for contradicting Trump

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CISA chief Chris Krebs ousted for doing his job fighting disinformation in an apparent purge of officials deemed disloyal to president Donald Trump

Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

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Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing

Government must hold technology companies to account on e-waste

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MPs urge UK government and global technology companies to deal with ‘tsunami of electronic waste’, which is throwing away valuable resources vital ...

Wayra partners with UK government for Latin American scaleup project

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Two scaleups from three Latin American countries – Argentina, Chile and Uruguay – will be selected by a project that will help the growing firms ...

Test data deduplication tools with these five guidelines

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Here is a list of five critical aspects to reflect on while testing data deduplication tools for actual results after your rollout.

Work in progress: Gaia-X project sets out path to create cross-continent data infrastructure

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The Gaia-X project's annual summit gave attendees a sneak peek at how its efforts to create an open, cross-continent, next-generation data ...

Zoom revenue bonanza continues into third quarter

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Breakout video conferencing firm continues strong run and in third quarter shows ongoing influx of customers

5G network densification and mMIMO to drive mobile net spend to US$191bn by 2026

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Finding MIMO pivotal to driving massive uptake in cellular infrastructure expenditure over the next five years

The UK tech sector has been a force for good during the Covid-19 pandemic

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

The UK's digital minister hails the tech companies that have helped people cope with many of the challenges of living through lockdown and the ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as e-commerce giant celebrates first-ever $100bn revenue quarter

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Bezos confirms he is stepping down as Amazon CEO and will take on the role of executive chairman, as company posts record-breaking fourth-quarter ...

Security Think Tank: Towards a united state of security

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

As US president Joe Biden sets out his agenda for the next four years, we consider the opportunities for renewed international collaboration on cyber...

Egregor ransomware associates arrested amid disruption

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Undisclosed number of arrests made in Ukraine after investigators tracked bitcoin ransom payments

IR35 private sector reforms: HMRC reminds firms to use ‘reasonable care’ when applying new tax rules

News | ComputerWeekly.com

As the countdown to the IR35 reforms being rolled out to the private sector continues apace, HM Revenue and Customs issues compliance guidance for ...

Challenger banks hindered by lack of customer confidence

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Despite an acceleration in the use of digital banking services, challenger banks face the obstacle of winning customer trust

EE 5G mobile usage increases by 40% over last quarter of 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Surge in use of next-generation networks for BT-owned mobile service over the festive period with video, especially news, causing spikes

SolarWinds patches two critical CVEs in Orion platform

News | ComputerWeekly.com

New vulnerabilities disclosed as SolarWinds reels from December 2020 Solorigate/Sunburst attack – but do not appear to have been exploited yet

CIO interview: Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital, NHS Scotland

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We speak to NHS Scotland’s head of digital about the IT to help ease the pressure on the health service, which has intensified during the Covid-19 ...

Venture capital trusts lobby for relaxed state aid rules

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Venture Capital Trust Association chair speaks to Computer Weekly about how the UK’s exit from the EU means state aid rules can be rewritten to allow...

‘Classic’ Cerber ransomware targets health sector in high volumes

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Cerber ransomware-as-a-service seems to have re-emerged as one of the most critical cyber threats facing healthcare organisations, reports VMware ...

Print partners need to do more

News | MicroScope

Canon Europe research shines light on customer frustrations with the way they are currently being served by the channel

Fix bottlenecks before tackling business process automation

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Business processes evolve over time, and intelligent automation requires a thorough assessment of what is not working optimally

Security firm Stormshield loses source code in cyber attack

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Source code from two products developed by French cyber security firm was compromised in a December 2020 incident

DXC Technology staying on turnaround course

News | MicroScope

Days after the firm rebuffed the Atos takeover approach, DXC Technology shares Q3 numbers

Austerity versus the march of technology – an economist’s perspective

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

Technology, in the economic sense, is an indicator of growth in a successful developed economy. But is tech efficiency also enabling the negative ...

Mobile is failing over two-thirds of frontline workers

News | ComputerWeekly.com

New data shows frontline workers are experiencing a global increase in mobility problems which negatively impact their work and their company

Industry tells House of Lords committee it has ‘grave reservations’ about CDS

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Customs Declaration Service is untested, unproven and not ready, and HMRC is taking a “cloak and dagger approach” to working with the industry, ...

Bright Little Labs launches Agent Asha series

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Children’s media company creates new series of children’s books and resources aimed at teaching children to code

Ericsson and Telstra take enterprise cloud to the edge

News | ComputerWeekly.com

After successful 5G edge computing trial with financial institution in 2019, Australian telco and comms tech supplier develop enterprise solution ...

Two-thirds of CISOs say they’ll be cyber attack victims this year

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Security professionals are ever alert to the threats they face, but some still seem to think it is unlikely they will be attacked

UKtech50 2021: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

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Our judges have picked a shortlist, and now we invite readers to tell us who should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for...

Orange aims for pole with Totem on back of ‘solid’ fiscal year

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Global telco claims to have defied Covid-19 with solid fiscal year and looks to the future with increased 5G penetration and new mobile tower ...

Nokia wins multi-year 5G radio and core contract with A1 Austria

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Central European telco signs further deal with Finnish comms provider to begin commercial implementation of 4G and 5G network slicing following ...

Fixing government digital transformation – lessons from the early days of GDS

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

As a new organisation is formed to lead UK digital government, three former government digital leaders share the lessons they learned from the early ...

Incompetent cyber criminals leak data in opsec failure

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Even cyber criminals need to pay attention to their information security posture, as this cautionary tale uncovered by Check Point reveals

NHS Business Services Authority launches digital strategy

News | ComputerWeekly.com

NHS body’s digital strategy aims to change culture, practices and processes to create an environment where people can do their best

Interview: Tony Porter, chief privacy officer, Corsight AI

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Tony Porter speaks to Computer Weekly about the changes in facial-recognition during his time as surveillance camera commissioner, the ethics of ...

Gaurav Dhillon: Silicon Valley is poised to grow up to seize a more spiritual future

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Gaurav Dhillon, co-founder of Informatica and founder CEO at SnapLogic, comes from a generation of Silicon Valley Indian immigrants who followed a ...

Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech

NCSC cyber defence scheme blocked thousands of scams in 2019

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The NCSC has reported another productive year for its Active Cyber Defence programme

Government needs to ‘take stock’ of digital progress, says Reform

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Think-tank says Covid-19 has shown the importance of a ‘digitally enabled’ public sector, but there is still a long way to go to realise the full ...

Cloud and datacentre giants unite to create climate neutral EU datacentre industry by 2030

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Major players from the world of public cloud and colocation have joined forces with trade associations from across the continent to create a climate ...

Sectigo launches programme and bolsters channel training

News | MicroScope

Security firm Sectigo is stepping up its channel support with a programme and portal designed to provide more access to training and marketing

Allied Irish Bank prioritises digital services as it cuts workforce

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Bank is cutting its operating costs by 10% with job cuts and facility closures, but will continue to invest heavily in technology

Red Hat supports channel guiding users through IT change

News | MicroScope

The technology might be changing, but so is the culture and the channel needs to be aware of the issues on that front

UK broadband industry ‘confused’ by government funding claims

News | ComputerWeekly.com

National broadband suppliers and trade bodies express surprise and lack of enthusiasm for Spending Review claims of providing positive outcome for ...

NI police unable to delete data seized unlawfully from journalists for 10 years

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Police Service of Northern Ireland is unable to delete terabytes of unlawfully seized data taken from journalists who exposed police failings in ...

Algorithmic transparency obligations needed in public sector

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Public sector’s use of algorithms with social impacts needs to be more transparent to foster trust and hold organisations responsible for the ...

BT cries foul on rivals’ coverage claims as O2, EE extend UK 5G nets

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Two of the UK’s mobile giants make significant additions to next-gen networks, but BT consumer CEO warns that rivals are not giving customers ...

Derek Moran

Contributor | TechTarget

Derek Moran is a freelance writer who focuses on business technology, cybersecurity and finance.

Networking
  • firewall as a service (FWaaS)

    Firewall as a service (FWaaS), also known as a cloud firewall, is a service that provides cloud-based network traffic analysis ...

  • private 5G

    Private 5G is a wireless network technology that delivers 5G cellular connectivity for private network use cases.

  • NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure)

    NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure) encompasses all of the networking hardware and software needed to support ...

Security
  • virus (computer virus)

    A computer virus is a type of malware that attaches itself to a program or file. A virus can replicate and spread across an ...

  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) is an advanced certification that indicates that an individual possesses the ...

  • cryptography

    Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes, so that only those for whom the information is...

CIO
  • IT project management

    IT project management is the process of planning, organizing and delineating responsibility for the completion of an ...

  • chief financial officer (CFO)

    A chief financial officer (CFO) is the corporate title for the person responsible for managing a company's financial operations ...

  • chief strategy officer (CSO)

    A chief strategy officer (CSO) is a C-level executive charged with helping formulate, facilitate and communicate an ...

HRSoftware
  • HR automation

    Human resources automation (HR automation) is a method of using software to automate and streamline repetitive and laborious HR ...

  • compensation management

    Compensation management is the discipline and process for determining employees' appropriate pay and benefits.

  • HR technology (human resources tech)

    HR technology (human resources technology) is an umbrella term for hardware and software used to automate the human resource ...

Customer Experience
  • martech (marketing technology)

    Martech (marketing technology) refers to the integration of software tools, platforms, and applications designed to streamline ...

  • transactional marketing

    Transactional marketing is a business strategy that focuses on single, point-of-sale transactions.

  • customer profiling

    Customer profiling is the detailed and systematic process of constructing a clear portrait of a company's ideal customer by ...

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