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Horizon case highlights collective risks in IT overreliance

As the recent Post Office Horizon saga has demonstrated, there is a need to strike a considered balance between blind faith in technology and a lack of faith in IT. On Friday 23 April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Post Office sub-postmasters for false accounting, fraud and theft with a further 700 overturned convictions potentially on the way after campaigners won a legal battle to prove the Post Office IT was at fault and the computer system on which their convictions were based was flawed. Described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history, the judgment marked the culmination of a 20-year battle for justice for individuals whose convictions were based on incorrect information from the Post Office’s Horizon sales and accounting system, developed by Japanese IT company Fujitsu.

Practical help for SMEs on cybersecurity

While cybersecurity has been high on many organisations agendas in recent years, the pandemic has heightened anxiety levels in SMEs, particularly around cyber-attacks. Greater reliance on digital technology has increased the impact of breaches and the shift to homeworking and the use of collaboration tools has opened up new vulnerabilities. Attackers have also been keen to exploit the changing circumstances and there have been reported rises in phishing and ransomware attacks, in particular. However, SMEs have been hard to reach and help with cybersecurity support. The ‘SME’ definition covers a huge range of organisations and makes up 99% of all business in the UK. Often SMEs do not have the budget of large organisations to spend on cybersecurity. They can lack skills and knowledge around what can be seen as a technical topic and often don t know where to start with good cybersecurity practices.

UK reboots data strategy with focus on economy and services

UK reboots data strategy with focus on economy and services 26 January 2021: The UK Cabinet Office’s new digital leadership team has a unique opportunity to deliver truly data-driven government, ICAEW experts have said, stressing the need for urgency following several years of delay. Paul Willmott, the founder of McKinsey Digital at McKinsey & Co, is to be chairman of the new central digital and data office (CDDO), with Joanna Davinson, currently chief digital, data and technology officer at the Home Office, serving as executive director. Tom Read, former chief technology officer at the Cabinet Office, is the CDDO chief executive.  They will be responsible for shaping and delivering the government’s plan to overhaul legacy IT systems, strengthen cybersecurity and improve capability, alongside the Civil Service Digital, Data and Technology(CSDDT) unit. 

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