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By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist at SolarWinds It’s now two years since the UK published its 2022-2025 roadmap for digital and data to transform government services and ensure every penny of taxpayers’ money is well spent. Sascha Giese The roadmap set out ambitious plans to “transform digital public services, deliver world-class digital technology and Continue reading Digital and data roadmap passes two-year milestone
By Tim Freestone, chief strategy and marketing officer, Kiteworks The sheer number of cyber-attacks in recent years puts the inadequacy of current systems into sharp focus. Alas, many public sector organisations are still using decades old legacy, homegrown technologies to manage the storing, transfer, and sharing of data. Although this approach has historically been Continue reading The need to modernise secure content communication approaches
Reporter: Stuart Littleford More than 2,000 devices reported lost or stolen across seven government departments in 2023 Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, has today announced findings from annual Freedom of Information (FoI) responses into data breaches and device loss within government departments. The results highlight an alarming number Continue reading Data of over 10,000 customers put at risk by HMRC breaches declared to ICO
By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist, SolarWinds The Government Digital Service (GDS) – part of the Cabinet Office responsible for digital transformation in the UK – is exploring how generative artificial intelligence (AI) could improve the user experience of the government’s website. Public sector IT experts are using generative large language models (LLMs) – the Continue reading Government learning lessons about AI from GOV.UK Chat experiment
By SolarWinds Senior Vice President of Engineering Krishna Sai Krishna Sai leads the engineering, technology and architecture teams at SolarWinds. He is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience scaling global engineering teams and building winning products across multiple industries. Sai has held leadership roles at Atlassian, Groupon, and Polycom, Continue reading Tips for Evolving Your Public Sector Database Strategy in 2024
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek, SolarWinds The task facing government departments and agencies as they progress towards their digital transformation objectives cannot be underestimated. For the IT professionals involved, it requires modernising their operations, applications, and databases while leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. And all of this must be done while supporting existing traditional workloads Continue reading How observability is crucial to tackling tool sprawl
By Casey Ellis, CTO and Founder of Bugcrowd Cyber experts levelling the playing field and disrupting threat actors In technology circles, it’s a well-known and often lamented fact that technology and cybersecurity have a habit of moving at a much faster pace than policy. “Hackers on the Hill” (HotH) is a program that works to Continue reading Hackers in the White House
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds With citizens looking for convenience wherever they can—from responsive mobile apps to joined-up services—public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to develop and deliver the IT solutions needed to facilitate such services. It was something laid out in June when the U.K. Government published its 2022 – 2025 Continue reading Managing digital expectations as pressure mounts for public sector transformation
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds When it comes to IT, much is made of the differences between public and private sector projects. People are quick to point out the world’s most successful go-getting companies use technology to gain a competitive advantage, while the public sector is motivated by the delivery of services to Continue reading Removing departmental siloes is vital for Governments under fire from state-sponsored salvos
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Trust underpins the foundations of modern and legitimate democracies. From civil safety and national security to upholding the rule of law, trust is vital if we’re to function as a society. Get it right, and public trust can Continue reading The importance of trust in delivering public services
Eilon Elhadad The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued practical steps to help tackle the significant increase in the number of cyberattacks resulting from supply chain vulnerabilities. To support this initiative, companies should minimise the complexity of the process, choose as few security vendors as possible, and build adoption programs, explains Eilon Continue reading Mitigating supply chain attacks: protecting the software development cycle
Ransomware has long been a menace and has even led to some referring to it as the digital plague of our time. The constant barrage of cyberattacks in the last few years has raised concerns, particularly for organisations that must get to grips with the tactics used by threat actors trying to gain access to Continue reading Tackling the Threat of Ransomware by Addressing Social Engineering
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds In our increasingly crowded urban settings, delivering better, safer, and more sustainable environments for citizens is central to both short- and long-term national and local government strategies. As a result, the accelerating development of smart cities is driving huge advances in technology and the use of data across Continue reading Smart Cities: Taking a Security-Minded Approach to Open and Shared Data
“LGfL-The National Grid for Learning is set to bolster public sector online defences in response to the National Cyber Security Centre’s alert to act now following Russia’s attack on the Ukraine,” says John Jackson, CEO, whose organisation has stepped up its cybersecurity resilience package to include monitoring, identification, sandboxing1 and the eradication of ever-evolving threats Continue reading LGfL to bolster public sector online defences in response to National Cyber Security Centre alert to act now following Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Integrated solution enables IT agility, productivity, and actionable intelligence for organisations of all sizes and industries, wherever they are on their modernisation and cloud migration journeys SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, announces the launch of SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability, built on the SolarWinds Platform. The SolarWinds Platform Continue reading SolarWinds Launches Comprehensive Observability, Empowering Customers to Accelerate Digital Transformation
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds The pace of digital transformation across the public sector has accelerated significantly in recent years, and with Covid-19 prompting a near-overnight shift to online services, the process has come a long way already. Services once requiring pages of paperwork now are fully digitised—renewing your passport or driver’s license Continue reading Can ‘One Login for Government’ Deliver Digital Success for the U.K. Public Sector?
By Charles Damerell, Senior Director UKI at SolarWinds In responding to the demand for better digital capabilities, defence organisations are among many across the public sector to have seen significant recent changes in their technology strategies and investment choices. This has delivered a wide range of benefits, such as enabling the sector to cope with Continue reading Understanding the Future of IT in Defence
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
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