Armed Forces signs Deloitte to £2.5m support deal for new recruiting programme
Launch of initiative follows troubled engagement with Capita
MoD offers £145k apiece for digital director duo
Department seeks leaders in the areas of digital enablement and cyber risk
MoJ plans £250k cybersecurity review
Department looks to cultivate ‘modern security stack’
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New investigatory powers commissioner to oversee all forms of government surveillance
Methods including intercepting phone calls and bulk data collection to fall under the expanded remit of IPCO
Report calls for major government investment in digital policing
Reform think tank urges Home Office to provide £450m spending grant and create academy to train thousands of cyber specialists
MoD seeks £180k CIO to manage 3,000 staff and £2bn budget
Ministry of Defence looking to appoint technology figurehead
UK Border Force to ditch landing cards as part of digital transformation programme
Home Office to bring in digital methods to replace £3.6m-a-year system
Probe launched into leak of more than 500 junior doctors' personal details
Union BMA commends trust on swift response to leak of trainee GPs' details but calls for thorough investigation
GOV.UK Verify to be extended to cover other countries next year
Trials also ongoing in local government and private sector
Social media, BYOD, and 'clicking the link' - public sector IT chiefs name their biggest security headaches
Government IT professionals discuss how to ensure they remain protected
Is hybrid IT worth the hassle?
Joe Kim of SolarWinds looks at what government IT pros can expect from hybrid IT, and whether implementing it will provide any benefits
Why cyber resilience is the UK's first line of defence
New threats require the sort of joint civilian and military planning that was common in the Cold War – but with a focus on cyber rather than nuclear, says Jennifer Cole of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Governments ‘most attacked sector’ - as proportion of cyber attacks double globally
Latest attack analysis from Dimension Data shows 14% of all cyber attacks were on the public sector - putting it at the top of the most attacked sectors list for the first time
ICO slams police force for ‘cavalier’ attitude to data after unencrypted interview footage goes missing
Greater Manchester Police slapped with £150,000 fine from data protection watchdog for failing to protect sensitive footage of interviews with victims of violent crimes
MoD launches £6m fund to improve data use in defence decision-making
The Ministry of Defence has launched a competition for small businesses to develop new ways of using data to improve decision-making as part of efforts to increase its data analytics abilities.
Political upheaval, Blockchain and data protection: What does 2017 have in store for tech?
As the New Year approaches, PublicTechnology takes a look at what we might expect in the world of digital government in 2017.
TechUK urges police forces to shift to the cloud and increase online crime reporting
Police forces need to increase their use of online crime reporting tools, live-streaming videos and adoption of cloud-based systems, TechUK has said.techUK estimates the cost of police time spent on low level crime reporting to be £130m a year.3
Police chiefs and crime commissioners pledge digital policing reforms
Policing Vision 2025 sets out plans to boost staff skills, share digital evidence and improve recording and analysis of online crime.
If position in the civil service is everything, where does digital really sit?
As the UK’s first director general for digital heads for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and the Government Digital Service struggles to maintain its footing at the centre, David Walker asks what the reality is for government digital.
UK cyber security centre promises to boost local government focus
The National Cyber Security Centre has committed to improving collaboration with councils and producing better guidance for local government.
Scottish government offers £92,500 for CDO to oversee benefits devolution
The Scottish government is advertising for a chief digital officer for social security for the second time this year as it gains control of benefit systems.
National cyber security centre launches as new Victoria HQ revealed
The UK government's much-trailed National Cyber Security Centre has opened for business, with new headquarters to be established in an office development in Victoria, London.
MI6 plans to bolster staff numbers in face of advances in digital technology
The Secret Intelligence Service MI6 is reported to be recruiting almost 1,000 new staff in response to rapid changes in technology and increasing amounts of digital information.
“Active cyber defence”: UK’s first National Cyber Security Centre chief sets out strategy
The UK has to take a more proactive approach to cyber security to cope with increasingly digitised systems and the growing digital economy, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre has said.