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"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News The government and its agencies should be a shining example in the treatment of sensitive and personal data for individuals. The loss of a USB stick containing unencrypted data on 84,000 prisoners by a management consultancy working for the Home... [27 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News The management consultancy firm at the centre of the latest government data breach storm has been paid almost £100m over three years for its services by the Home Office and its agencies, with individual consultants from the company being charged... [22 Aug 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News The £147m consultancy bill is broken down into £118m for the Home Office last year and £29m across the department's other agencies, including the Identity and Passport Service. He said: "This expenditure reflects the size and complexity of a large... [11 Apr 2008]
Web services slash CO2 emissions
News Online services are already proven to significantly cut costs for government agencies by boosting efficiency. The research, carried out by environmental consultancy Best Foot Forward, examined the contribution of local council web services to... [18 Jan 2008]
Bored and underpaid? You're not alone…
News Meanwhile, IT recruitment agencies are seeing plenty of candidates looking for jobs. Stuart Packham, a director at recruitment consultancy Michael Page Technology, recently told silicon.com: "Candidate flow is very good. [17 Jan 2008]
Legacy systems - as good as new?
News TG: Legacy is still used by [government], benefits agencies and the second-tier financial services firms. I've actually retired from ICL and Fujitsu and now work in consultancy. Banks and other financial services organisations are being warned of a... [08 Nov 2005]
IT consultants: your government needs you
Consultancy will be provided on a 'call off' basis, to Whitehall departments and agencies, the police, NHS, local councils, educational organisations and charities. The contract will be divided into eight categories covering: information systems... [06 Jun 2005]
Nortel to grab PEC for cool $448m
News PEC, which was founded in 1985, is a systems integrator and consultancy that works with United States homeland security, law enforcement, intelligence and defence agencies. Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks has announced that it will buy... [27 Apr 2005]
Techies hamstrung by bosses on Freedom of Information
News A survey of senior government IT execs by change management consultancy Partners for Change found that 78 per cent of government bodies won't be able to comply with one of the Act's main provisions, which states that government agencies will have... [18 Oct 2004]
5 years ago…White Paper proposes accountants as privacy guardians
News The consultancy has put forward its own industry as the ideal monitor of US websites - rather than government agencies. But Anne Jennings, marketing manager at TrustE, told Silicon.com: "The co-branded seal would have a higher charge associated... [12 Mar 2004]
£1.6bn saved by 'smart' government spending
News The report examined 86 departments and agencies, looking at nine in-depth. One, the Department for Works and Pensions, saved £245m on its annual £4bn spending bill - with IT supply and modernisation and IT consultancy accounting for £1.1bn of this... [12 Mar 2004]
Widespread ignorance rife for Basel II compliance
News However, he is confident that "market pressures" - increased by greater transparency across all companies within the sector - and the ratings agencies breathing down banks necks will mean they will comply, whether they know it now or not. [12 Nov 2003]
Consultants get rich from outsourcing
News Ian Watmore, president of the MCA, said in a statement: "Companies and government agencies have shed a great deal of cost through outsourcing their IT departments. The Association also believes that the outsourcing and IT consultancy good times... [27 Aug 2003]
Hackers given 'back door key' to hundreds of government sites
News Barrett added that at the very least the affected agencies should be made aware of the problem and check whether serious breaches have occurred. Neil Barrett, technical director at security consultancy IRM, said the problem was twofold: "The first... [11 Jan 2002]
CRM a dirty word in the hallowed halls of Whitehall
News Blinkered behaviour by government agencies is wasting key opportunities to offer better services to citizens. In order to deliver e-government properly, agencies have to identify customer service principles," Shine said. [14 Nov 2001]
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