As it delivers a significant agenda of refreshing its tech, the government agency responsible for checking the backgrounds of job applicants is seeking to identify a new specialist IT partner […]...

The health service has acquired new technology that it claims could have helped mitigate a significant incident in 2024 which affected the personal data of tens of thousands of Scots […]...

In response to parliamentary queries prompted by recent major incidents, ministers at two of government’s largest departments have revealed contingency plans to ensure ongoing operations, irrespective of vendors’ tech issues […]...

Six months after discovering a successful breach, the MoJ agency has revealed that the complexity of its structures means that the organisation cannot yet say how much data was accessed […]...

Auditors assessing the challenges facing the benefits department in delivering strategic goals have raised concerns about technology and data infrastructure, and how this could impact employees in accessing key information […]...

As part of broader efforts to address ageing IT, stretching back over many years, the benefits department has engaged a major services firm to support its upgrade and mitigation work […]...

The company’s submissions cited its ‘very small margins’ and claimed it was being ‘held to an alternative standard’ to its peers, but the regulator has still imposed a big fine […]...

In its yearly assessment, the National Cyber Security Centre reveals that just three vendor vulnerabilities alone led to 29 serious incidents, as part of a broader increase in major attacks […]...

Following a breach in April, the boss of the retail and insurance firm has praised the response of her specialist colleagues, but urged other executives to engage in cyber issues […]...

The security agency which sits within government’s central department, has revealed that it has concluded a process of moving large swathes information from internal infrastructure to a commercial hosting offering […]...