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Dstl competition receives over 5,000 entries

Homeland March 16, 2017

Dstl’s Kaggle competition has been a huge success, receiving over 5,000 entries, equivalent to over £2.5M in research. The data science competition was run via Kaggle, the world’s largest data science competition community. This is the first time UK Government has worked with an online community in this way. The purpose of ...

Armed Forces Covenant builds to 1,500

Homeland March 15, 2017

Travis Perkins, the UK’s leading Builders Merchant, has become the latest company to sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant, bringing the total number of companies committing to support to UK’s military to 1,500. The Company is committed to supporting members of the Armed Forces and already has ex forces and ...

NCSC Chief warns UK politicians to improve cyber security

Homeland March 15, 2017

With the ramifications of a possible General Election, second Scottish Referendum and the complicated withdrawal from the EU currently on the agenda, the NCSC is hoping to avoid the series of embarrassing cyber breaches prevalent within the US Presidential Election, by offering UK’s political parties assistance with their cyber security. Ciaran ...

UK political parties warned of potential Russian cyber attacks

Homeland March 14, 2017

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has told the leaders of Britain’s political parties that they are at risk from Russian cyber attacks. According to The Sunday Times, Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has written to political parties advising them of steps to take to avoid falling ...