“Is SAST done? DAST too? Great – we have DevSecOps!” I have heard this assertion recently more than I had expected. Moving to a DevSecOps approach is more than just doing code analysis, even if it is done at early stages. According to a CSA study, 30% of companies are already in the process […]

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking food delivery app operator Deliveroo to the Supreme Court over its alleged denial of collective bargaining rights to riders. Although a date for the hearing is yet to be set, the legal challenge will seek to establish that Deliveroo riders are workers, rather than […]

The CyberUp coalition, a group of businesses, trade associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and lawyers drawn from across the cyber security community have called on the incoming prime minister Liz Truss to quickly push through long-awaited reforms to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. The campaigners argue that the CMA is out of date […]

 The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has moved nearly 50 more applications from a legacy private cloud environment to its MODCloud with the help of IT service provider NetCompany. The MoD’s Defence Digital department is responsible for providing the defence community with access to certified and assured private and public cloud services from the likes […]

Go-Ahead Group, one of the largest bus operators in the UK, with franchises covering cities including Brighton, Hull, London, Newcastle, Oxford and Plymouth, has confirmed it is dealing with a cyber attack that appears to have downed key internal systems. The firm – which also operates train companies, although these are unaffected – said […]

UK prime minister Liz Truss is being reminded of her pre-election promise to review the IR35 tax avoidance reforms and address what she previously called the “very poor” handling of the government’s controversial loan charge policy. During Truss’s Conservative leadership campaign, which culminated in her becoming prime minister today (6 September), she pledged to […]

Saudi Arabia is impacted by the same kinds of cyber attack as the rest of the world. But the geopolitical situation in the region means there is a different set of perpetrators – and they are highly motivated.   Politically motivated cyber criminals targeting Saudi Arabia often focus on fundamental industries. “We see attacks […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 6 September 2022 Out with the old at Asda Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Asda’s CIO, Carl Dawson, about the supermarket’s cloud-oriented renovation of its technology stack. We narrate the security woes at Twitter. And we examine […]

The UK upgrade to its payments infrastructure is expected to add more than £3bn to GDP by 2026, but the potential of real-time payments is much bigger. According to a study from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), software firm ACI Worldwide, and Global Data, if theoretically all payments were real-time, UK GDP could […]

Data-driven government is not new, or innovative – but it is essential to underpin policy and operational decision-making. Despite this having been central to government digital strategy for years, we are still struggling to see the outcomes, especially outside pockets of the pandemic response. We know the problems – legacy technologies, a skills gap […]