I have blogged before about the government’s new Cyber Essentials Scheme. On 12 May 2014, ADS hosted a roundtable to provide input […]
Read moreOn 1 May, the National Crime Agency published a national assessment of the impact of and the threat to the UK from […]
Read moreThe Home Office is leading a public research call seeking to identify additives to or substitutions for explosives precursors and poisons to […]
Read morePolice procurement has always posed challenges for the security sector. The most obvious challenge is that the customer base is very fragmented, […]
Read moreThis week, the government launched a ‘Cyber Essentials’ scheme. As previously noted, this scheme is the next stage on from the ’10 Steps to […]
Read moreToday, the new Government Security Classification Scheme (GSC) goes live. As a result, the whole of government will be changing the way […]
Read moreLater this morning, the government will launch the Computer Emergency Response Team – UK (CERT-UK). CERT-UK is the UK’s national CERT and will be […]
Read moreToday, a scheme was launched that enables UK cyber security suppliers to government to be able to reference this fact publicly, for example […]
Read moreThe UK’s security sector is world leading because of its constant innovation. I was reminded of this last week, when the US Department […]
Read moreThe 27 February was a significant day for the security sector, as Theresa May, the Home Secretary, launched the UK’s first Security Exports Strategy. […]
Read moreThe government intends to develop a ‘cyber hygiene profile’ (standard) to improve basic cyber security in organisations in any economic sector. The profile will: […]
Read moreOne of the big challenges in the UK’s security sector is how to make more effective use of the limited R&D funding […]
Read moreThe Metropolitan Police recently published its new technology strategy, Total Technology, for the period 2014 to 2017. The drivers for this digital policing vision are: Improving […]
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