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By Charles Damerell, Senior Director, UKI at SolarWinds Malicious threat actors are now targeting software vendors and IT vendors in a bid to hide zero-day vulnerabilities in legitimate software updates. Since today’s digital supply chains are becoming ever more complex and intertwined, these supply chain attacks now pose a significant threat. By tampering with back-end Continue reading Countering Cyberthreats: Becoming Secure by Design Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts – and the integrated care systems that are planned to take over health tech strategy and funding next April? The Highland Marketing advisory board asked three leading chief information officers for Continue reading The EPR debate By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds For years, it has been broadly accepted that the profile of open-source software as ‘higher risk’ goes against the principles of public sector technology procurement. Being free, not reputedly as safe, and via smaller vendors than the big players, has blinkered this industry to finding solutions which could Continue reading Open-Source Database Revolution in the Public Sector Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds 2021 has been another year of challenges for us all, and for the IT sector, the changes needed, time invested, and adjustments made to public sector systems and processes are set to shape the future for good. While private sector businesses Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Why IT Professionals Are Unsung Public Sector Heroes by Richard Walker, Data and Insights Partner, Agilisys Over the past 12 months we have frequently heard the Prime Minister declare that Government is “following the science”. At the same time, millions of us have found ourselves staring at charts and monitoring trends eager to understand the current situation. The link between the data that Continue reading Putting a Value on Public Sector Data By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds As organisations throughout the public sector have turned to remote working solutions over the past year and a half during the global pandemic, technology has solved countless problems—but it’s created challenges, too. The tried and tested “business as usual” processes were disrupted, and organisations were forced to rely Continue reading Public Sector IT: How Monitoring Could Be The Answer SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future examines how technology professionals perceive the evolving state of risk in today’s business environment following internal impact of COVID-19 IT policies and exposure to external breaches SolarWinds introduces Secure by Design program as a guide for industry-wide approach to help prevent By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds IT teams across the public sector are under pressure to migrate technology infrastructure, services, and data to the cloud. Whether the objective is to deliver cost savings, performance improvements, better reliability, or a combination of benefits, the trend is well established. Increasingly, the emphasis is shifting away from Continue reading How to Deliver on the Potential of Public Sector Cloud Migration By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Public sector organisations across the country are looking closely at the way they can improve services and performance by optimising their use of data. Indeed, many are focusing on it as a key asset and a driving force behind their wider technology strategy to build a ‘data-centric’ approach. Continue reading How Public Sector Database Teams Can Become ‘Data Centric’ Software consultancy Scott Logic has been awarded a new contract to act as implementation and development partner on the Scottish Government‘s digital identity programme. The digital identity programme is part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Strategy actions to build a suite of common platforms to be adopted across the public sector, transforming government. The commitment Continue reading Scott Logic awarded contract to develop the Scottish Government’s digital identity platform By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Recent research in the U.K. public sector shows a combination of cloud and local infrastructure will continue to be used over the course of this year, with up to 53% of services confirming they use hybrid infrastructure. In essence, hybrid IT is the integration of on-premises IT services Continue reading How to Maximise the Advantages of Hybrid IT |
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