Socitm has called on the UK government to include local authorities in the development of the government’s National Cybersecurity Strategy....
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Norfolk County Council back online after network outage
Email systems are back up and running at Norfolk County Council following an outage that prevented some staff from sending and receiving messages. The authority denies hackers were to blame […]...
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Ransomware – what can public bodies do about it?
In the wake of last week’s ransomware attack on Lincolnshire County Council, Des Ward looks how public bodies should respond....
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Scottish Government launches digital inclusion initiative
An initiative aiming to create hundreds of new ‘digital champions’ to help vulnerable people in Scotland get online will be launched next week....
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GDS begins rollout of G-Cloud improvements
Suppliers are now able to remove services from the G-Cloud they no longer provide, following the introduction of improvements....
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MEPs criticise safe harbour deal
MEPs have slammed the new safe harbour data privacy agreement as ‘an affront to citizens across Europe’ and accused the EU Commission of naivety in dealings with US....
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Hodge slams DWP over Amazon appointment
Dame Margaret Hodge has led criticism of the expected appointment of a director of cloud supplier and online retailer Amazon to a senior board role the Department for Work and Pensions....
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