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After two breaches inside a week, department commissions independent assessment of compliance

Ministry puts £2m behind contest to identify ways to combat ‘swarms’ of hostile autonomous airborne vehicles

Process of assessing use of technology has been 'sub-standard' committee finds

There are more than 16,000 civil servants working on Brexit, with departments with the biggest technology workloads dedicating the most employees

Domestic intelligence agency looks to improve flow of info between justice agencies, NHS and social services

Postholder will head up department’s FCO Labs unit

National Crime Agency leading inquiry after malware assault

John Swinney tells Holyrood conference that most attackers are ‘exploiting the same basic failings’

Initial set-up meant investment required was unknown and objectives may not be achieved 

Chunk of Transformation Fund will be used to fast-track development of technologies including driverless logistics vehicles and miniature drones

Three-year contract up for grabs

PublicTechnology talks to Shaun Hipgrave, head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre, about the Whitehall unit’s work to solve the security challenges of government, industry – and tennis fans

Boss writes to select committee to outline measures taken to improve performance

Chinese networking titan claims that it would ‘categorically refuse’ any requests to assist in intelligence-gathering

Parliamentary committee backs plans but says risk assessment is needed before embarking on rollout

Organisation indicates that faults were quickly detected and ‘there is no evidence of any security compromise'

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

Army hopes that recruitment process can be sped up by improved data sharing

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 

Anti-cybercrime leaders say Daniel Kaye was a ‘talented and sophisticated cybercriminal’

Defence select committee considers launching inquiry into military response