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RSS Security cabinetIT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information security. Cabinet Office names Angela Smith as IT tsar According to the list of ministerial... [16 Oct 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Recently, senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice both told silicon.com that they are open to offshoring work such as software development. The matter is important now because of... [03 Aug 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News A spokesman for the Cabinet Office declined to provide details of the missed milestones or name the supplier in question because of "confidentially on security and commercial grounds". The first phase of... [17 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News In the past, all government IT security training has been the charge of the Cabinet Office, through the office of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA). However, the... [01 Jul 2009]
SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News The first thing we need to do, through the National Security Forum, is to put in place a roadmap for the workstreams proposed by the Cabinet Office. The government has not finalised training budgets, a... [29 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The Office of Cyber Security (OCS), dedicated to protecting Britain's IT infrastructure, will be created in line with a model proposed - and in part practised by - the US, the Cabinet Office said on... [25 Jun 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News According to Alexis Cleveland, director of transformational government for the Cabinet Office, sending some areas of tech work abroad could result in cheaper and better-quality IT services. Public sector union PCS... [24 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet reshuffle, silicon.com takes a look at the changes wrought in the top tiers of government and how they might impact on the technology industry. [10 Jun 2009]
CIO Job Report: February's movers and shakers
News Other government departments looking for senior techies include the Cabinet Office, which is looking for a director of digital engagement. The Department for Work and Pensions is currently accepting applications for the... [24 Feb 2009]
Two-thirds of UK's top IT security jobs unfilled
News Sharon Wiltshire is chairman of the Infosec Training Paths & Competencies (ITPC) scheme at the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, a unit within the Cabinet Office. An IT skills shortage has been blamed for... [03 Feb 2009]
Obama 'needs new cyber-security tsar'
News As President-elect Barack Obama fills the remaining cabinet positions in his administration, a Center for Strategic and International Studies commission is recommending Obama create a new office in the White House: the... [08 Dec 2008]
'You don't really want to do that...'
News He also described the other work being done by government departments to better protect public information in the wake of the Poynter and Independent Police Complaints Commission reviews, the Data Sharing Review and the... [01 Dec 2008]
MoD admits losing nearly 2m recruits' details
News He said the data breach had happened in part as a result of work to overhaul information handling in the MoD, following the Cabinet Office data handling review and Sir Edmund Burton's review - which was introduced after... [14 Oct 2008]
MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News This came to light during a priority audit EDS are conducting to comply with the Cabinet Office data-handling review. There is no evidence that security at the site has been breached. As site... [10 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment As a result of this episode the Cabinet Office implemented new procedures and measures and has published a policy for information security. Government will be focusing its attention now on the... [17 Sep 2008]
