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Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment Security has also been a pressing question for the Home Office following a breach of the Data Protection Act last year, when its contractor PA Consulting lost the personal details of 84,000 prisoners. [10 Jul 2009]
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
News Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller, the Home Office was ultimately accountable for the loss under the Data Protection Act, said assistant information... [23 Jan 2009]
£273m in IT projects axed by UK
News Department for Work and Pensions m of projects were axed including £135m for the cancelled Benefits Processing Replacement Programme (BPRP) project handled by IBM and PA Consulting and £11.2m for the... [20 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News August 2008: PA Consulting loses a data stick holding records on 84,000 prisoners, a breach that subsequently sees the contractor lose its lucrative contract with the Home Office. In the last 12 months a... [30 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment Within a couple of weeks the Home Office announced its decision to terminate its contract with PA Consulting as a direct result of that loss - and is considering whether to terminate further contracts it... [17 Sep 2008]
Second Life sets techies on stability
News PA Consulting Linden Lab has revealed its tech group is tackling several areas that it hopes will make the Second Life Grid - the platform which allows users to build their own islands - work more... [15 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News PA Consulting Group (PA) has become the first company to have a government contract terminated for losing public information after the August breach. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said in... [10 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment PA Consulting are also engaged by the Home Office on the Interception Modernisation Programme which is likely to introduce a government controlled centralised database of all communications data records... [28 Aug 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News Security professionals are united in condemning how the latest breach saw PA Consulting able to copy the data to removable media without first encrypting it, and have stressed the need to defuse the... [27 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News Working with the Home Office on prisoner tracking is not the only government business PA Consulting has been involved with. PA Consulting was appointed by the Home... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News Contractor PA Consulting alerted the Home Office to the loss on Monday evening - and by midday Tuesday the contractor confirmed "rigorous" searches had failed to uncover the whereabouts of the memory... [22 Aug 2008]
CIOs scouring the jobs pages
News The CIO survey, which was conducted in partnership with PA Consulting, is based on the responses of more than 360 UK CIOs and senior tech professionals. UK CIOs are still keen on landing that next big... [19 Aug 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment She eventually made the step to CIO after 11 years in consulting with PA Consulting. Being a techie isn't necessarily the best route to the top of the IT tree, with most CIOs on the... [11 Jun 2008]
Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News He said the system, provided by PA Consulting Group and Software AG, was far more efficient than relying on manually checking biometrics. Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas... [05 Mar 2008]
Second Life tackles virtual nuisances
News PA Consulting Linden Lab's head of community, Robin Harper, told silicon.com that "emerging" behaviours deemed undesirable within the virtual world sometimes require a change in code or user policies to... [12 Feb 2008]
