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UK organisations urged to strengthen cyber security in response to current situation in and around Ukraine

Homeland February 2, 2022

 UK organisations are being urged to bolster their cyber security resilience in response to the malicious cyber incidents in and around Ukraine. It comes after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is part of GCHQ, recently updated its guidance to UK companies and organisations. The NCSC is investigating the recent reports ...

BAE Systems to expand domestic supply of microelectronics technology

Homeland January 25, 2022

BAE Systems has been awarded a $60 million contract from the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island under the Cornerstone Other Transaction Authority to develop certain types of next-generation, radiation hardened by design (RHBD) microelectronics leveraging Intel Corporation’s commercial foundry, Intel Foundry Services. The main goal of the program is to ...

DPRTE partner DASA makes £1.3m available for telexistence innovations

Homeland January 19, 2022

Official DPRTE event partner, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking innovations to develop a complete telexistence system, integrating telepresence, robotic and haptic technologies on to a single platform. DASA has launched Telexistence Phase 2, on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Telexistence technology has the ...

Three steps to conducting a successful cybersecurity health check that will keep your business running through a crisis and beyond

Homeland January 14, 2022

Writing for Defence Online, Nic Sarginson, Principal Solutions Engineer at Yubico, outlines how to carry out a cybersecurity health check and help protect your business from the cyber threat. Over the past year, many business plans have pivoted in one way or another — some long-term initiatives have been placed on ...