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HM Treasury cybersecurity salary triggers fresh outcry
Private sector equivalent in the UK would be triple
Policy
Worried central banks launch joint liquidity operation
Is this a tech story? Well, kind of...
Enterprise IT
UK’s GDPR lite “replacement” kills off DPOs (in name)
UK plans to relax some protections under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in its revised Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, after a round of external consultations. The proposed changes reduce requirements around the processing of personal data where it is used for “legitimate interests”, aim to clarify
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Boards “cannot outsource their responsibilities” warns Bank of England in new cloud rulebook.
Audit access, cybersecurity, concentration risk all covered...
Cybersecurity
Government “must avoid a ban on ransomware payments” say insurers
"If a ban is considered the Government should be ready to step in..."
GCHQ
Opinion: GCHQ's Director should not be playing guest editor on the BBC
Now was not the time...
Enterprise IT
Apollo to Blackrock, Citi to Deutsche: Whales weigh in on the outlook for tech in 2023
Whether you work with technology as a CIO or developer, at a software provider, in government, defence, pharmaceuticals, or at a bank, we are all swimming in the waters of the same global macroeconomic environment; the conditions of local tributaries may vary, but the outlook for tech in 2023 will
Enterprise IT
One single HMG department is running 600+ unsupported apps
Defra legacy IT issues mean department is running some 2,000 applications, 30% of them unsupported. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is running 600+ applications that are end of life (EOL), or no longer supported with software updates by their suppliers; a severe potential
Cybersecurity
UK to expand NIS Regulations, bring MSPs, data centres in scope
It's going to cost suppliers too under proposed new cost recovery rules...
Cloud
Neither inferno, nor price hikes quell OVHcloud, as EU sovereignty focus drives business
Analysts expecting European cloud provider OVHcloud to haemorrhage customers in the wake of a devastating 2021 data centre fire or recent price hikes look away: The company reported a net revenue retention rate of 114% for its fiscal 2022 and has now clinched a €200 million credit facility from the
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Gov’t IT energy use falls 10%, but e-waste surges
And the MOD accounts for 36% of all gov't ICT energy consumption.
Policy
Searching for search: UK Gov wants to dump GOV.UK Elasticsearch
"We would also like to reduce the long term maintenance work..."