Entrust CEO Bill Conner is pushing enterprises to recognise that desktop's are no longer the most secure way to assure an employee's identity and that instead they should be looking to mobile devices for sophisticated protection against malware.

The government has revealed that a number of major IT projects are at risk of failure and need urgent action, including both Universal Credit and the G-Cloud programme.

Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer’s ability to remember a number of different details.

European Salesforce customers will need a ‘serious reason’ to be hosted in the cloud giant’s new UK-based data centre, which is due to open by 2014.

BT’s head of global security practice, Jill Knesek, has said the telco is ‘overly conservative’ and ‘struggling’ with the proliferation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and cloud trends within the enterprise because of compliancy fears.

Queen’s University Belfast, one of the government’s sponsored centres of excellence in cyber security research, has signed a new partnership with Infosys to help it better develop intellectual property (IP) and products that can be used in real-life business scenarios.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has issued an accelerated tender for new air movements software on the grounds of ‘extreme urgency’ and has only given suppliers ten days to bid for the contract.

A freedom of information request has revealed that the BBC has spent over £750,000 on lost or stolen laptops, mobile phones and tablets in just three years.

MPs have warned that the implementation of Universal Credit could leave the public sector ‘vulnerable to fraud’, as concerns are raised about detection systems still being in the early stages of development, despite the national rollout beginning this year.

BlackBerry has denied claims made by the Guardian that its latest BB10 software has been rejected by the government as not being secure enough for essential work, saying that the reports are ‘false and misleading’.

The government is calling on industry to provide evidence on what it thinks is the best ‘organisational standard’ for effective cyber risk management, which it will then endorse as the preferred approach.

Consumers are calling for portable account numbers to enable easier switching between bank providers, but are concerned about banks sharing IT infrastructure to make this happen.

The Department of Health (DoH) and the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) have collaborated to publish advice on sharing and keeping electronic health records secure.

(ISC)2, the world’s largest not-for-profit information security professional body, has conducted its annual survey of more than 12,000 security pros across the globe and found that although many rank software vulnerabilities as a top concern, not many have the skills to deal with application protection.

Tesco has confirmed that it has called in the police to investigate a possible data breach after a number of complaints from Clubcard members who claim to have had their online accounts compromised.