The National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) has extended its outsourcing contract with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for another decade. It has been a TCS customer since 2011, when the auto-enrolment pension scheme was first launched by the UK government. TCS took responsibility for end-to-end administration services across the scheme, building a greenfield operation with […]

Lloyds Banking Group is opening a tech centre in the Indian city of Hyderabad as part of its digital transformation, with plans to recruit 600 data and cyber security specialists. The operation, which will open this year, is part of Lloyds Bank’s strategy to improve the customer experience through technology as more people rely […]

The UK government’s public cloud-first policy has undergone its first major update in a decade, with the guidance now urging central government departments to “challenge themselves” to source services from a wider range of providers to prevent supplier lock-in. Introduced in 2013, the policy mandates that all central government departments must take a public […]

Orange Business, Orange Cyberdefense and global cyber security provider Palo Alto Networks have joined forces to deliver a managed secure access service edge (SASE) solution that they say will  meets enterprise customers’ most demanding networking and security requirements with high performance, simplicity, and zero-trust network access 2.0. Outlining the rationale for the launch, the […]

Stuart Hughes, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at Rolls-Royce, is driven by a desire to use data to give the aerospace and defence giant a competitive advantage. “If you think about what digital transformation is about at Rolls-Royce – especially since I’ve been there, but the process did start before I arrived – then […]

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said its suspicious email reporting service has received 21 million reports, leading to more than 235,000 malicious websites being removed since its launch in April 2020. The Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS), launched by the NCSC and the City of London Police, has removed 54,000 text message scams […]

What is Nessus? Nessus is a platform developed by Tenable that scans for security vulnerabilities in devices, applications, operating systems, cloud services and other network resources. Originally launched as an open source tool in 1998, its enterprise edition became a commercial product in 2005. Nessus now encompasses several products that automate point-in-time vulnerability assessments of […]

Banks and investment firms will increase their spend on IT to $652bn globally despite the current economic doom and gloom, with a focus on technologies that can create a business return faster. The latest figures from Gartner revealed an 8% increase in IT spending globally, with software seeing the biggest increase compared to last […]

In this podcast, we look at cloud storage compliance and security, with a particular eye on data residency and auditing your data, with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about the rise of the cloud and the tendency towards data holdings in cloud storage to proliferate, especially with the ability of departments across the […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. People are discussing the onset of Terminator-style AI that obliterates mankind – and not only as a joke. Those with less apocalyptic viewpoints consider the risk of AI taking out a huge tranche of work that has traditionally been carried out by people. In turn this leads […]