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CMS Select Committee turns Cybersecurity reporting focus from breaches to performance

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The press release  for the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee Cybersecurity report  headlines the recommendation to jail abusers not just fine their employers.  The change of reporting emphasis from notifying breaches to, inter alia, the processes for enabling customers and staff to check for impersonation, with fines linked to failure to do so, should,…

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Lack of co-operation on cyber skills costs London more than membership of the EU costs the UK

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We need a London Cyber Security Skills Partnership to reduce on-line fraud and improve customer confidence in organisations which base their global operations and/or governance here, regardless of whether we are inside the EU or not.
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An effective cyber security skills partnership in worth more to London than either brexit or remain

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The putative benefits or risks claimed by those lobbying for your vote next week are less than organised crime in looting from Londoners and London-based businesses, let alone the losses from the failure to give users confidence in the security, let al… Continue reading An effective cyber security skills partnership in worth more to London than either brexit or remain→

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If there is really a Digital Skills Crisis why are we still pussyfooting?

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This morning the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee released its report on the “Digital Skills Crisis”  This afternoon the House of Lords debated the government response  to its “Make or Break” report last year . Last week the European Commission published a proposal for a Skills Guarantee . Meanwhile BIS is ploughing…

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Is there really a Digital Skills Crisis? If so, why did the S&T Select Committee pull its punches?

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Does the Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Commons really believe their is a Skills Crisis that will “Make of Break” (to use the title of the House of Lords Digital Skills report being debated today) the UK. If so, the answer is more likely to come from Brussels than from BIS – given the horlicks officials are making of the apprentice funding processes: a levy without a credible grant process. This has reinforced my lack of confidence in the Brexiteers.

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Towards Gigabit/Full-Fibre Britain by 2025: Ed Vaizey and Sharon White change the game plan

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Ed Vaizey’s robust comments to the Select Committee on the failure of the Advertising Standards Authority to take action against adverts based on a quality of service received by under 20% of customers were most welcome. So too were Sharon White’s comm… Continue reading Towards Gigabit/Full-Fibre Britain by 2025: Ed Vaizey and Sharon White change the game plan→

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The battle for London’s broadband vote: How are the Mayoral candidates responding to the rising tide of discontent?

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it is unclear whether the best approach is to agree to something (but what?) or to agree to do nothing – and allow market forces to work their magic, now that we have a regulator who appears to have rediscovered what they are there to do. Continue reading The battle for London’s broadband vote: How are the Mayoral candidates responding to the rising tide of discontent?→

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