Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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Pentland Brands, a division of Pentland Group, the majority shareholder of JD Sports, has turned to Google Cloud’s BigQuery service to better understand its customers. The name behind well-known sports and outdoor apparel brands Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Ellesse and Mitre, Pentland Brands’ products are sold in 190 countries. It’s also the…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 8 August 2023 How to improve developer productivity Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide examines the developer experience and looks at how critical it can be for productivity. The tech sector still struggles with diversity and inclusion…
Despite their best efforts to get on top of the problem, some of the UK’s biggest retail banks continue to find their brands being abused and spoofed by cyber criminal fraudsters and scammers, according to data compiled by BrandShield, a supplier of brand protection technology services. BrandShield’s researchers set out to explore the breadth and…
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Microsoft has publicly confirmed that a potentially dangerous flaw in the Azure public cloud platform – which was the subject of a full and frank attack on the firm’s vulnerability reporting and disclosure processes by Tenable CEO Amit Yoran last week – has been fully addressed for all affected users. Microsoft had already told Computer…
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Two elected governors have been suspended, pending investigation, by the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust (UHMBT). Computer Weekly understands the pair were told by the trust’s chair, Mike Thomas, that they were being suspended on the same day as they were due to raise questions around disputed emails that appeared to implicate whistleblowing…
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Two and a quarter years after President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to harden the US’ cyber security defences in the wake of high-profile attacks on SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline, research produced by Sonatype has revealed that the mandate to improve software supply chain security has spurred action on this side of…
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of “paying lip service” to smaller suppliers after embarking on a revamp of the “underused” Cloud Compute Framework to make it more accessible to SMEs. The government’s procurement arm is inviting submissions from prospective suppliers for the £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework until 21 August 2023, but Computer…
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Tenable’s CEO and former national cyber security director to the George W Bush administration, Amit Yoran, has hit out at Microsoft and accused the software giant of deliberately putting its customers’ security at risk by keeping them in the dark over the risks and vulnerabilities they face. Yoran launched his attack after Tenable revealed the…
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The UK government has begun recruiting a panel of experts to work on boosting the semiconductor sector and growing the economy. The Semiconductor Advisory Panel’s responsibilities will include offering the government advice and feedback on how it can support companies involved in the delivery of semiconductor products and ensure critical British industries have safe and…
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