What is a firewall? A firewall is a network security device that prevents unauthorized access to a network. It inspects incoming and outgoing traffic using a set of security rules to identify and block threats. A firewall can be physical hardware, digital software, software as a service (SaaS) or a virtual private cloud. Firewalls are […]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Surrey Police and Sussex Police with reprimands after finding that officers had unlawfully used a mobile phone app to covertly record more than 200,000 phone calls. The police forces escaped potential fines of £1m following a change in policy by the ICO last year, which aims to […]

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that all too often lack the time, money or staff to implement appropriate cyber security policies and protections can now benefit from a new industry assurance scheme launched this week by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) at its annual CyberUK conference. The Cyber Advisor scheme is described […]

Despite the global economy being in the doldrums, 44% of IT leader base in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region expect IT budgets to increase this year, according to the latest EMEA TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey, which received responses from around 400 IT decision-makers. This is 10% higher than last year, […]

The government’s controversial IR35 tax avoidance legislation threatens to derail the UK’s bid to become a science and technology superpower, contracting authority Qdos has warned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government announced during the March 2023 Spring Statement plans to invest £1bn in developing next-generation supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI) research, as […]

NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron has opened the agency’s annual CyberUK conference in Belfast with a call for collaboration across the industry and a reminder not to succumb to complacency, saying that the many of the collective challenges we face in cyber security are not focused on how we secure today, but on how we […]

Global financial services businesses are taking part in an annual NATO cyber security exercise which tests the resilience of critical national infrastructures. A total of 29 financial services organisations, including Barclays, Santander and Mastercard, have been brought together by the not-for-profit member organisation, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) to participate […]

Cisco has warned enterprise users of its routing and switching hardware to be on the alert for exploitation of a six-year-old vulnerability by nation-state threat actors linked to states such as Russia and China, after UK and US cyber agencies made a similar appeal. Earlier this week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) […]

On the opening morning of its CyberUK conference in Belfast, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert to operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) across the UK, concerning the growing threat from, and impact of, cyber attacks originating from ideologically driven Russian threat actors or hacktivists. Historically, attacks on CNI […]

Oracle’s spring update to its cloud applications suite includes automation enhancements in supply chain management and additions to its employee experience platform. Both will be announced today at Oracle CloudWorld Tour in London. Ahead of the event, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications product development, briefed Computer Weekly on what he sees as […]