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The IT skills shortage
Lee Biggins at CV-Library.co.uk considers whether the UK IT industry is really as skill-deprived as we think |
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The IoT security stand-off
Who's ultimately responsible for securing the Internet of Things? Robert Miller at MWR Infosecurity examines the issues
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Network Computing Awards 2017: The Winners!
The results from the 2017 Network Computing Awards were revealed at an evening ceremony at the Grand Connaught rooms on March 30th. Here we profile some of this year's winners:
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Welcome to the May 2017 Newsletter.
Digital transformation is a hot topic at the moment – and it probably can’t come quick enough for the NHS, particularly in the wake of this month’s ransomware attack. And it’s not as if the IT challenges facing the NHS weren’t difficult enough prior to WannaCry. Back in 2013 The Department of Health announced its plans for a `paperless NHS’ by 2018, with the then newly appointed Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt stating that “The NHS cannot be the last man standing as the rest of the economy embraces the technology revolution.” Four years later and that target has slipped over the horizon, having already been revised once to 2020, with many experts now believing 2023 to be a far more realistic date.
What will come into effect in May 2018 however is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and that will pose a whole host of new IT and legal challenges for the NHS in itself. The digital transformation of the NHS is a mammoth and vitally important task, and the WannaCry ransomware attack has underlined the importance of ensuring that critical data such as the medical records of patients are shared securely. In fact the sharing of data and information on unsecure, unpatched systems has undoubtedly helped the ransomware to spread through the NHS.
To this end we have articles on both malware and digital transformation in this issue of the newsletter. As Sean Sullivan at F-Secure writes in his piece on tackling malware “Security incidents aren't going to stop. Numerous political and cultural obstacles need to be tackled before this even begins to change,” which seems all too applicable to the NHS this month.
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