Capita-led recruitment project hamstrung by Army’s ‘antiquated IT system’, MPs told
The MoD and the Army made a number of errors during the troubled project to help meet the Army’s recruitment targets, officials have admitted
Jail sentence for UK hacker who took a nation offline
Anti-cybercrime leaders say Daniel Kaye was a ‘talented and sophisticated cybercriminal’
Ministers urge airports to ‘step up’ in face of drone threat
Defence select committee considers launching inquiry into military response
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The biggest stories of 2018 – part one
We take a look back at the major developments that shaped the first half of the year
The three public sector technology trends that will define 2019
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the topics and trends that will dominate the year ahead, and revisits the predictions of a year ago to see any of them came to pass
Border tech and UK sat nav among projects boosted by government’s £2bn Brexit prep package
HMRC, Defra, and the Home Office are the major beneficiaries of departmental funding
MoD shared services unit seeks £80k CIO
Defence Business Services seeks tech professional to create and implement digital strategy
Capita-led project saw Army website launched four years late and at triple the planned cost
Programme has consistently fallen well short of recruitment goals, NAO report finds
Home Office seeks £20m partner for border threat assessments
Supplier sought to support rollout of advance border control service
UK nearing ‘cliff edge’ on post-Brexit police data sharing, MPs warn
Home Affairs committee says it will be ‘near impossible’ to reach agreement on access to criminal databases
Criminal checks agency concludes that new IT system is ‘not suitable for further rollout’
Disclosure and Barring Service will relaunch procurement exercise after calling time on IT refresh led by Tata Consultancy Services
MI6 chief calls for tech-enabled ‘fourth-generation espionage’
In rare speech, top spy Alex Younger claimed that ‘the digital era has profoundly changed our operating environment’
Government and police chiefs consider options for managing digital evidence
Law enforcement, prosecutors and government meet to examine technological challenges
Brexit withdrawal agreement sets 2021 deadline for UK access to 25 European IT systems
The UK will be shut out of many European networks and databases over the next few years – and will have to pay the EU for access in the meantime, under terms of Brexit deal
Current police ICT systems are in desperate need of change
John Kellet of public sector digital specialist Eduserv looks at what at the results of the annual Police ICT Survey tell us about the force’s tech set-up
MSPs probe data privacy concerns over Police Scotland’s cyber kiosks
Law enforcement earlier this year bought 41 of the devices for use across the country
Government admits failure of bid to recruit chief security officer
Labour MP Jo Platt criticises government ‘incompetence’ as Cabinet Office relaunches bid to appoint someone to head up government security profession
DfT survey lifts lid on widespread public fears over drones and autonomous vehicles
A government study has revealed that UK citizens harbour a range of concerns about emerging technologies in the transport space
Balancing security and digital transformation
With the annual worldwide cost of cybercrime set to double from $3tn in 2015 to $6tn by 2021, BT offers advice on how chief information security officers can better protect their organisations
GDS offers £90k a head for squad of cyber and privacy professionals
Four roles on offer in organisation’s assurance and privacy unit
Border IT systems face no-deal Brexit threat
National Audit Office warns that 11 of the 12 IT systems in use at the UK border are at risk of being unready if the country leaves the EU without a deal
Home Office seeks 'police and public protection tech' leader
Deputy director role set to pay up to £105k a year