Working from home looks set to stay for public sector employees
Many public sector employees look set to remain working from home for the long-term as a result of the pandemic. Public sector leaders reported that working from home is here to stay with almost half of those surveyed believing that 70 percent or more of their formerly office-based employees would be allowed to continue to work from home in some …
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Cyberattacks on healthcare sector spike following Covid vaccine rollout
December was a devastating month for healthcare organizations in terms of cybersecurity. As vaccines started rolling out across the world, the number of web application attacks against healthcare organizations spiked by 51 percent. This is according to fresh figures from cybersecurity researchers at Imperva, which claims healthcare organizations experienced 187 million attacks in total (roughly 500 per organization). Year-on-year, the …
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Financial services sector pushing hybrid cloud usage more than ever
The financial services sector is pushing hybrid cloud usage more than ever, a new report from Nutanix states. The company’s third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report claims that financial services firms expect hybrid cloud to be the only IT model to show positive growth within half a decade. It is expected to grow by 39 percent during that time. Furthermore, …
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Boris’s 10 point plan will transform the energy sector as we know it – but is it ready?
Technology right at the heart center of the nation’s green industrial recovery. Rachel Eyres is a Business Unit Leader at Expleo UK. She has over 20 years’ experience in the energy and utilities sector, working with many different customers and learning along the way about energy retail, smart metering, power distribution/smart grids and smart cities. She is very interested in …
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Public sector businesses could be facing serious legacy security issues
Applications used by public sector organizations contain more flaws than those used by private sector firms, which significantly increases the chances an attack might expose sensitive data. This is according to a new report from application security testing company Veracode, which claims that four in five apps used in the public sector have at least one flaw. The problem, according …
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IT hinders UK public sector response to pandemic
In all of Europe, the UK’s public services sector experienced the biggest shift to remote working, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They were also the ones most critical of the IT solutions that were supposed to help them do their job, saying that instead, it hindered their efforts. Polling 3,500 public servants all over Europe, BearingPoint found that almost two thirds …
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AI making inroads in financial services sector, but not without difficulty
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making inroads in the financial services sector, but not without difficulty, and there’s still a lot of work to be done before it reaches its potential. This is according to a new report called Smart Money: How to drive AI at scale to transform the financial service customer experience, recently published by the Capgemini Research Institute. …
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