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How tech keeps young offenders on straight and narrow
Case Study A £26m revamp of youth justice tech promises to cut the risk of self-harm and reoffending among young inmates. The transformation, which began in April 2007, has already allowed close to 30,000 workers within the justice... [06 Jan 2009]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study While underwriters at the company were used to a spreadsheet-based approach, the decision was taken to build an in-house underwriting application and bring in risk assessment modelling techniques, all of which... [09 Oct 2008]
Microsoft updates boost law firm security
Case Study Information security risk manager at Linklaters, Orhan Moye told silicon.com: "The reasons for pursuing patch management is we're predominantly a Microsoft shop. International law firm Linklaters is using Microsoft... [17 Sep 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Paravicini said: "We are reaping the benefits, it is about getting the right mix and managing that attrition risk. Zurich, one of the world's largest insurers, has revealed how outsourcing helped turn around its IT... [10 Jun 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study He said the technology has to be proven to minimise the risk of any of the systems failing during the games. Preparations for the Beijing Olympics in August are nearly complete and for Atos Origin, it's the end of an IT... [16 Apr 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study BT owns about 85 per cent of the venture, taking most of the financial risk and promising to deliver a set of 24 service improvement programmes across all of the services it provides for the councils. [05 Feb 2008]
Scottish Re evaluates risky data
Case Study Reinsurer Scottish Re Group has introduced an electronic data interchange (EDI) system for its customers to help the company manage risk on the 'lives' it takes on.silicon.com Financial Services The insurance market can... [04 Feb 2008]
Somerfield gets serious about wireless security
Case Study At the end of the process, Pentura handed Clark a report on Somerfield's potential wireless vulnerabilities in terms of business risk, rather than technological failure. Its IT team is more at liberty to experiment with... [05 Nov 2007]
British Airways flying high with storage monitoring
Case Study British Airways is aiming to reduce the risk of downtime on its critical business systems by installing SAN monitoring software. The company will use tech from Computer Associates (CA) which provides early warning if the... [03 Oct 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure using virtualisation to increase flexibility and reduce the risk of downtime. The RSPB is using between 15 and... [04 Jun 2007]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study The migration was completed within 10 months and Paymaster has also been able to improve levels of system availability and security, while reusing its core application code and data to minimise risk and expense. [08 May 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study Lewis added in the next 10 years Casu is running the risk of drowning in data and the current database management system will not be able to cope unless a technology - similar to WX2 or otherwise - is implemented. [16 Apr 2007]
NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance
Case Study Chilton added the Trust can now plan upgrades much more effectively and can consequently mitigate the risk of outages or loss of service. The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has started monitoring its... [20 Mar 2007]
Left-handed stormtroopers fight for ecommerce site
Case Study He is now happier to keep development in-house, saying: "the risk was just too much". An ecommerce website specialising in products for the left-handed has enlisted Star Wars stormtroopers as part of its sales arsenal. [21 Nov 2006]
O2 stops fraudsters with online ID checks
Case Study Neil Harvey, O2 head of credit and risk, said: "With the prevalence of online billing and the improvements in the quality of colour printing these documents have become very easy to forge in recent years and [it's... [20 Nov 2006]
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