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DBS stops sending electronic copies of sensitive documents after ‘issues’ with redaction software
Organisation indicates that faults were quickly detected and ‘there is no evidence of any security compromise'
Military research unit looks to ‘get faster on cyber and AI’
Tech is becoming more prominent in the threat posed to the UK’s security, according to the CEO of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Armed Forces and NHS Digital explore electronic transfer of GP records
Army hopes that recruitment process can be sped up by improved data sharing
Capita-led recruitment project hamstrung by Army’s ‘antiquated IT system’, MPs told
The MoD and the Army made a number of errors during the troubled project to help meet the Army’s recruitment targets, officials have admitted
Jail sentence for UK hacker who took a nation offline
Anti-cybercrime leaders say Daniel Kaye was a ‘talented and sophisticated cybercriminal’
Ministers urge airports to ‘step up’ in face of drone threat
Defence select committee considers launching inquiry into military response
Interview: CIO for overseas military operations on the rising nation-state cyberthreat facing the MoD
Nicholas Lloyd, who oversees technology across 52 global locations, discusses the changing threat landscape
Government targets drones with additional police powers and new technology
Transport secretary Chris Grayling stands up to airborne menace
The biggest stories of 2018 – part one
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The three public sector technology trends that will define 2019
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the topics and trends that will dominate the year ahead, and revisits the predictions of a year ago to see any of them came to pass
Border tech and UK sat nav among projects boosted by government’s £2bn Brexit prep package
HMRC, Defra, and the Home Office are the major beneficiaries of departmental funding
MoD shared services unit seeks £80k CIO
Defence Business Services seeks tech professional to create and implement digital strategy
Capita-led project saw Army website launched four years late and at triple the planned cost
Programme has consistently fallen well short of recruitment goals, NAO report finds
Home Office seeks £20m partner for border threat assessments
Supplier sought to support rollout of advance border control service
UK nearing ‘cliff edge’ on post-Brexit police data sharing, MPs warn
Home Affairs committee says it will be ‘near impossible’ to reach agreement on access to criminal databases
Criminal checks agency concludes that new IT system is ‘not suitable for further rollout’
Disclosure and Barring Service will relaunch procurement exercise after calling time on IT refresh led by Tata Consultancy Services
MI6 chief calls for tech-enabled ‘fourth-generation espionage’
In rare speech, top spy Alex Younger claimed that ‘the digital era has profoundly changed our operating environment’
Government and police chiefs consider options for managing digital evidence
Law enforcement, prosecutors and government meet to examine technological challenges
Brexit withdrawal agreement sets 2021 deadline for UK access to 25 European IT systems
The UK will be shut out of many European networks and databases over the next few years – and will have to pay the EU for access in the meantime, under terms of Brexit deal
Current police ICT systems are in desperate need of change
John Kellet of public sector digital specialist Eduserv looks at what at the results of the annual Police ICT Survey tell us about the force’s tech set-up
MSPs probe data privacy concerns over Police Scotland’s cyber kiosks
Law enforcement earlier this year bought 41 of the devices for use across the country