Against the backdrop of more than a decade of increasingly stretched budgets , police forces across the UK have long been faced with significant operational and organisational challenges.

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that don’t yet exist.

The Covid- 19 pandemic has us thinking differently about a lot of things. Security is high on that list.

We all want – and need – to be able to do more with less. But how? Increasingly, this is a vital question for our police forces.

‘Innovation’ has become a loaded word, one that can send a shiver down the spine of even the most forward-thinking CEO.

A few years ago, a breach that impacted several million people would have been big news. In 2019 roughly 3.5 billion people saw their personal data stolen in the top two security breaches of that year alone.

Cyber security has an air of mystery to it. Something hidden in the shadows and only able to be understood by technologists and spies.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for cyber security but also changed the very nature of the beast.

"Can we uninstall 2020? The current version has a nasty virus in it,” says the meme flying around social media for the past few months. There are, however, glimmers of light that can be found around the world which have arisen out of the pandemic.

If the cloud was a priority for businesses before 2020, the onset of the global pandemic has made it more critical than ever.