The latest IT spending forecast form analyst Gartner points to a 4.3% increase in worldwide IT spending in 2023 compared with 2022. Gartner’s figures project spending on IT to total $4.7tn this year, driven by the need for CIOs to invest in automation and technologies that improve efficiencies with fewer staff. Discussing the forecast, […]

The Football Association (FA) has enlisted the help of its long-standing IT partner Google Cloud to create digital tools that will collect the player performance and health data needed to create tailor-made training plans for the England team ahead of the Women’s World Cup. The quadrennial tournament is taking place in Australia and will […]

The impending accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) holds the potential to drive market growth and consolidation in the Nordic region’s cyber security services sector. The membership path of the two military unaligned states to NATO is already producing unprecedented levels of mergers and acquisitions activity across Nordic […]

Two vulnerabilities in the Adobe ColdFusion platform are being actively exploited by threat actors in a series of cyber attacks, apparently after a proof of concept (PoC) for one of them was accidentally released to the public by researchers. The two vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2023-29298, an access control bypass flaw, and CVE-2023-38203, a […]

Demand for IT outsourcing services spending in Europe bounced back in the latest quarter despite a reduction in cloud services investments, as businesses turned to traditional outsourcing to cut costs amid the challenging business environment. European organisations spent $7.8bn on IT and BPO services in the second quarter of this year, which was 3.5% […]

Compensation owed to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal will not be paid to all by the deadline in just over a year, warned the public inquiry chair, who called on the government to legislate to extend the legal deadline for payments to be agreed paid to claimants. Following the warning, the former […]

The digital realm has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last decade. At the forefront of this evolution is Software as a Service (SaaS), which has revolutionised the business ecosystem by offering customised solutions and seamless connectivity. But as we integrate these technologies deeper into our business fabric, one critical issue looms large: privacy. […]

Police Scotland has “uploaded significant volumes of images” to its cloud-based digital evidence-sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, in response to a formal information notice from the Scottish biometrics commissioner. At the start of April 2023, Computer Weekly revealed the Scottish government’s Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) service – contracted to body-worn video provider Axon for […]

On the other hand, AI can also be a powerful tool within the hands of cyber security professionals, with many AI-powered security technologies being developed and applied in the cyber security industry to strengthen defences and safeguard against emerging threats. With the wider business using AI, studies show 35% are utilising and 42% of businesses […]

The judge in charge of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has threated “criminal sanctions” against the Post Office if it continues with ongoing “significant failures” in disclosing evidence. Sir Wyn Williams said today that all future inquiry requests for evidence to the Post Office will carry a notice under Section 21 of […]