Behind the scenes at ICS we have been working hard to ensure your professional development needs can continue to be met. We are pleased to announce that member events, CPD and training are now fully available online.“Businesses across the country are dealing with new requirements and changing circumstances,” said Claudia Delaney, our Head of Training. “Your staff may need training in new methods ...
Monday, May 25th
The Commission announced on May 20 2020 that it will commit nearly €41 million, through Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, to support 9 projects aimed at working on innovative cybersecurity and privacy solutions. Five of these new projects will concentrate on cybersecurity and privacy solutions for citizens and small and medium businesses (SMEs). The other four projects will work on improving critical security systems, such ...
Thursday, May 21st
Phone apps could play a part in the fight against Covid-19, but raise privacy and data protection issues. Discover what the EU is doing.Data protection: tracking coronavirus, not youDedicated mobile apps could play a key role in the fight against Covid-19 and the EU has been working with member states to develop effective solutions. As apps could expose sensitive user data, Parliament has ...
Thursday, May 7th
As part of the national response to COVID-19, the government has shared more information about the work taking place to develop a national app for contact tracing and real-time symptom tracking.The primary purpose of the app is to enable the health services to improve the speed and effectiveness of contact tracing and to map and predict the spread of COVID-19. This is in ...
Thursday, May 7th
We would like to reassure members and students regarding our policy on refunds, cancellations, transfers and substitutions during the current crisis.Behind the scenes at ICS we have been working hard to ensure your professional development needs can continue to be met. We are pleased to announce that member events, CPD and training are now fully available online.We have been contacted by many ...
Thursday, April 23rd
What exactly is cyber risk management and how can you minimise the risk across the entire business? With the risk of cyber attacks continually on the rise, many businesses will see the costs of combating these risks rise exponentially.Managing the risks associated with cybersecurity to an organisation can be compared to purchasing insurance. We all want to be covered against any issues that ...
Tuesday, April 28th
The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD has today (Wednesday 22 April 2020) announced a special €10 million fund to support the purchase of technology and devices for disadvantaged students.A total of €7 million additional funding will be provided in the post-primary sector and €3 million in the primary sector.“Providing €10 million for schools now to buy devices like laptops is going to be a huge ...
Wednesday, April 22nd
The Data Protection Commission has shared their tips for secure video conferencing.In light of the recent increase in remote working, necessitated by COVID-19 mitigation measures, as well as the increased numbers keeping in touch online with friends and family, the number of people video-conferencing and video-calling has increased dramatically. This has also resulted in people using apps and services which they might not ...
Tuesday, April 21st
Behind the scenes at ICS we have been working hard to ensure your professional development needs can continue to be met. We are pleased to announce that member events, CPD and training are now fully available online.“Businesses across the country are dealing with new requirements and changing circumstances,” said Claudia Delaney, our Head of Training. “Your staff may need training in new methods ...
Monday, May 25th
The Commission announced on May 20 2020 that it will commit nearly €41 million, through Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, to support 9 projects aimed at working on innovative cybersecurity and privacy solutions. Five of these new projects will concentrate on cybersecurity and privacy solutions for citizens and small and medium businesses (SMEs). The other four projects will work on improving critical security systems, such ...
Thursday, May 21st
IT value models must be designed to allow for three types of activities which do not traditionally play well together:Disruptive Innovation and Experimentation,Strategic Long Term Roadmaps andDevOps Style Incremental Innovation and Product Features What are Value Models?Valuation is the practice and delivery of value according to a clear and consistent set of rules and decisions. Value models include the economic framework, ...
Friday, May 15th
The Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) is a joint project launched by international professional computing societies to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in computing and provide a vision for the future of computing. A final draft report has now been produced, so you and your colleagues are invited to review the draft report and complete the survey. The stakeholders of the report ...
Monday, May 11th
Phone apps could play a part in the fight against Covid-19, but raise privacy and data protection issues. Discover what the EU is doing.Data protection: tracking coronavirus, not youDedicated mobile apps could play a key role in the fight against Covid-19 and the EU has been working with member states to develop effective solutions. As apps could expose sensitive user data, Parliament has ...
Thursday, May 7th
As part of the national response to COVID-19, the government has shared more information about the work taking place to develop a national app for contact tracing and real-time symptom tracking.The primary purpose of the app is to enable the health services to improve the speed and effectiveness of contact tracing and to map and predict the spread of COVID-19. This is in ...
Thursday, May 7th
As part of the academic communities' response to COVID-19, NUI Galway and DCU have set up a Citizen Science project. We'd very much welcome your support in filling in a short online survey. The url is: http://www.nuigalway.ie/corona-study/How are you dealing in the Corona pandemic? On 8 April and 22 April we asked you to participate in our Corona-study. More than 140,000 responses ...
Wednesday, May 6th
ICS welcomes Peter Rose as a Fellow of the society.Peter started work in 1987 with a UK software house specialising in safety critical and high quality software development. Deloitte and Touche Management Consulting Group subsequently bought the software house where Peter remained and led the Sybase technology practise and supported the equivalent Oracle group. Peter left Deloitte to come to Ireland in 1996 where he ...
Friday, May 1st
