Proactive defence: A new take on cyber security
The traditional reactive approach to cybersecurity, which involves responding to attacks after they have occurred, is no longer sufficient. Murielle Gonzalez reports on a webinar looking at what organisations can do to take a proactive approach
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GDS adds millions to supplier contracts as One Login project enters ‘critical time’
Value of trio of technical and support deals is raised
NHS offers bionic arms to all amputees
Technology has previously only been available to those injured in military service
Leaders want public sector to become ‘digital to the core’ to cope with challenges
Reports identify importance of technology skills to help meet service demand in spite of financial pressures
GDS Academy to close
Initiative that provided digital skills training to several thousand officials each year is shutting down this month
Half of social-care providers yet to adopt digital records
Minister provides progress update on plan to increase use of technology systems
Passport Office seeks £7.5m IT partner for final stages of troubled transformation scheme
Programme is getting closer to completion – but years behind schedule and at nearly treble originally slated cost
Patchy data means government ‘does not know what skills gaps it has and where’
Civil service requires better information to help address need for technical expertise
ICO issues warning over ‘emotion analysis technologies’
Regulator claims new systems come with inherent risk of ‘systemic bias, inaccuracy and even discrimination’
DWP relaunches £200k bid to attract CDIO
Role was previously open for applications in August
‘DCMS can speak with a single, expert voice on digital policy within government’
Perm sec Healey claims that department’s emergence as the go-to place for tech policy is ‘an incredible asset to the UK’
DVLA recruiting four senior techies to tackle legacy and help create ‘digital workplace’
Government agency opens hiring process for quartet of IT leadership posts
DWP looks to embed machine-readable laws into digital ‘Universal Credit navigator’
Department works with government lawyers and specialist tech firm to pursue ‘rules as code’ project
Integration of NHS Digital brought forward to January
Government claims merger will improve data sharing across health service
Digital and robotics key to HMRC cuts, CEO says
Demand for headcount reductions and other savings can be achieved via use of tech in services and operations, Jim Harra tells MPs
For the US government, good design is a civic duty
In light of plans to overhaul USA.gov, YuJune Park of Parsons School of Design explains the revamp must put citizens first
Chris Philp takes ministerial reins of GDS and CDDO
Digital agencies have yet another new politician in charge after Croydon South MP is moved on from the Treasury
Foreign Office signs £7.5m two-year deal to support cyber transformation
Department signs deal with defence contractor
Leeds looks to robotics to help transform services despite ‘significant financial challenges’
City council to undertake year-long six-figure programme of work
Whitehall job cuts: Truss to drop Johnson’s timetable in favour of efficiency-based ‘hybrid model’
Reports claim new PM and her cabinet could reinstate Fast Stream and pursue savings through efficiencies and natural churn
GDS to offer departments new GOV.UK Forms design platform
Online Redundancy Payments service is the first to be built using tool, which aims to tackle the difficulties caused by the thousands of services that rely on PDFs
Foreign Office seeks £120k technology leader
Department recruits for CTO to ‘build trust at the highest levels in the potential of technology’