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Home Office selects Leidos to deliv

Home Office selects Leidos to deliver transformation of biometrics platform

Homeland October 18, 2019

Leidos has been appointed by the UK Home Office to transition, operate and transform critical elements of the UK’s national biometrics systems in support of law enforcement, immigration services and border security. Work undertaken by Leidos will be performed as part of the Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme’s Strategic Central and Bureau ...

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The UK government has issued a direct call to businesses to strengthen their cyber defences against a rapidly evolving AI-enabled threat landscape, as new figures confirm the UK's cyber security sector has grown 11% to £14.7 billion - with the number of firms up 20% to 2,603 in the past year alone. The announcements, made on 12 May by Cyber Security Minister Baroness Lloyd, are backed by £90 million of government investment in cyber resilience across the economy and the continued passage of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill through Parliament following the King's Speech. The AI Threat Is Accelerating At the heart of the government's messaging is a stark warning: traditional cyber defences are no longer sufficient. A new generation of AI models is lowering the barrier for cyber criminals, enabling them to identify vulnerabilities and execute attacks at a speed and scale that would have been impossible even twelve months ago. Recent figures show 43% of UK businesses experienced a cyber breach or attack in the past year. Research by the AI Security Institute - which the government describes as

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