The Gem of all Mechanisms

In this special edition following the latest BCS CIO Network event, Heather Lowrie, Chief Information Security Officer and Cyber Security Advisor and Ian McCormack, Deputy CTO at the National Cyber Security Centre speak to Brian Runciman MBCS about zero trust cyber security models.

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT presents a special podcast with the Business Standards Institution (BSI), featuring an illuminating conversation between Rashik Parmar and David Mudd as they dive deep into the critical intersection of digital transformation and sustainability. In this must-listen episode, two industry leaders explore how organisations can build a more sustainable digital future while driving innovation and maintaining resilience.1. Unpick Sustainability. Built assets on new builds, critical national infrastructure narrative 2. Demand for digital isn’t going to stop…but with that comes vulnerabilities. Cyber, people narrative 3. Hidden impact of AI. 4. Responsible computing: Senior leaders and IT professionals Find out more about how BSI could help your business https://page.bsigroup.com/l/73472/2024-12-12/2c9zxm6

The Law Centres Network comprise charitable legal practices that help those who can't afford a lawyer with legal issues - and that is around 70% of the population! Alex Charles, Head of IT and Data, and Julie Bishop, the Director of the Network, speak to Brian Runciman MBCS about the IT issues they face in providing this support, whilst giving insight into the data and digital maturity issues a lot of charities face. They also discuss the issues around fundraising such as telling client stories in an ethical way and the maintenance of digital assets after they have been donated.

In this special edition, four service resilience experts review BCS' CIO Network event. Mark Burnham, CTO Government and Public Services at Deloitte, Jonny Sammut, Director of Digital Services at the Welsh Ambulance Service, Patrick Burgess, Technical Director at Nutbourne, and Christine Ashton, CIO of UKRI and a member of BCS' FTAG join Brian Runciman MBCS to discuss the clear issues that came out of the event. These include making service resilience a more than annual consideration, the role of standards, reducing event impact, the role of the board, and how professionalism fits in.

BCS Fellow Karl Hoods was recently honoured with a CBE. Brian Runciman MBCS spoke to him about his CIO career, his focus on social impact, the skills shortage, future challenges CIOs will face and more. Karl is Group Chief Digital & Information Officer at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero and Department for Science Innovation & Technology.

Stefano Mensa from the Hartree Centre speaks to Brian Runciman MBCS about the industry-facing supercomputer centre, with a focus on quantum computing. What benefit will it add? How close are we to fault-tolerant quantum computing with the current logical qubit bottleneck? What can it do for UK business?