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Highlands opens largest IT service centres in Europe

Homeland October 29, 2021

Two new sites in Nairn and Inverness have opened this week, as part of a new Defence IT support contract, creating jobs for over 250 people in the local area and boosting the local economy. The two new service centres, run by Capgemini, will look after all Defence IT customers who ...

FireEye releases report examining the ransomware threat to industrial production

Land February 28, 2020

A new report from FireEye examines the ransomware threat being faced by industrial production IT and OT. The scale of ransomware threat is examined in a new report from FireEye: Ransomware’s Threat over Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Production, particularly IT and OT vulnerabilities. Since at least 2017, there has been a ...

MOD to modernise IT contracting

Land November 5, 2019

The MOD is looking to modernise its IT contracting practices to gain better access to digital experts. The MOD is trying to improve its IT contracting practice as part of an overall modernisation of systems. A new framework agreement will allow the MOD to select multiple suppliers based on expertise to ...

Winning in Combat: Strong, innovative systems are the key to leveraging the information advantage

July 17, 2019

Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at software company SolarWinds, takes a look at how the advent of the digital age is transforming  defence both on the battlefield and in the cyber realm.  Information wins battles, or even prevents them. This is nothing new; where there’s conflict, there’s military intelligence, and usually those who hold the most information are the most successful. Rule 101 of winning in ...