ITS Technology Group secures £3.5 million dark fibre contract in Carmarthenshire
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20 June 2025
The ITS Technology Group has announced it has secured a £3.5 million contract to deploy a dark fibre broadband network across Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales, marking its first project in South Wales.
This initiative is part of the Swansea Bay City Deal’s Digital Infrastructure Programme, aiming to enhance connectivity for public sector sites and drive regional digital transformation.
Find out more National Security Review to include a wider array of categories
18 June 2025
The UK government is reportedly planning to broaden the scope of its upcoming National Security Review (NSR), set to be published next week, to include a wider array of spending categories.
According to The Telegraph, this expanded definition would encompass not only traditional defense elements like a potential third runway at Heathrow Airport but also critical infrastructure such as food prices and rural broadband initiatives — including schemes like the £5 billion Project Gigabit.
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Why Securing the Edge for NIS2 doesn’t need to be Mission Impossible
10 June 2025
Given the emergence of AI over the past year or so, the introduction of the European Union NIS2 Directive in late 2024 was not a moment too soon. Just like in the latest installment of Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, IT teams are now having to deal with their own “mini-Entity” as they attempt to stay ahead of hackers.
In fact, one could argue that the original Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive was already somewhat out of date when it became effective in 2018 in that it only applied to limited types of organizations and left too many implementation details to individual member states. These among many other shortfalls.
Secure I.T. Environments completes complex data centre upgrade on Jersey
09 June 2025
Secure I.T. Environments Ltd (SITE), a leading UK provider of design and build services for modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has announced the successful completion of a demanding upgrade project on Jersey — the largest of the Channel Islands.
The project involved intricate logistics, including shipping all equipment — such as three air conditioning systems — to a remote location 14 miles off the coast of Normandy, and was delivered on time and within budget.
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