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The elected board for UKC3 is made up of Cyber Cluster leads from across the UK who will help drive forward initiatives aimed at growing the cyber sector in the UK. UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3) has announced its newly elected board.

2023 a New Year New You? All business leaders (you) are already deciding how their companies are going to forge ahead into the new year of 2023. While this is the start of a new year, some things remain the same. A company should always seek to improve itself. The final goal of being “the best” at something is incremental and requires lots of small changes over the years to achieve.

Now it’s not just an important era for cybersecurity, it’s also a great time to join the sector. These two go hand in hand, as the demand, fast pace, and variety of work all contribute to why it is the perfect time to get involved. Kelly says, “The environment is constantly changing; something’s always new. You think you’ve got a really great solution and then the next thing comes out. The speed and pace make it extremely exciting – it’s never boring.

This year, the core theme is modern-day national infrastructure programs, which are often comprised of critical software-intensive systems. The aim is to understand how early decisions around cyber-physical system architectures and adopting effective software development lifecycles and verification techniques will later impact defect rates and maintainability. However, the challenge for such large-scale and long-term systems is multi-faceted.

James Cunningham, CEO of Core to Cloud explains what sets this software apart from traditional approaches: “Most applications, data, and services used by organisations today reside in the cloud, making them more accessible to cyber threat actors, while the shift to remote and hybrid working means legacy security and visibility are inadequate as they rely on the users being in the office to provide protection.

The courtyard will be home to our arrival drinks and street food, well lit and complete with bar and music to get everyone in the spirit. This year’s awards will be held in the Crane Room, named after Propyard’s stunning 20 tonne Morris crane, a testament to the venue’s former life as an MOD torpedo warehouse. We’ll see you there to commemorate this year’s achievement across the tech and digital community. But for now, get involved by casting your vote.

92% of LOQBOX members who currently rent, want to own their own home, according to a recent survey. To help them achieve their goal, LOQBOX has launched a brand new feature, LOQBOX Rent, allowing members to use Moneyhub’s open banking technology to track and report rent payment behaviour to Experian. This will help renters to build their credit worthiness, making them more eligible for a mortgage in the future.

Financial exclusion impacts billions of people around the world, including younger people new to credit. As the economy works hard to starts to recover from the pandemic, British lenders are expecting a rise in unsecured lending. Still, with more people applying for credit, inevitably, more people will be declined.