Top 10 Benelux stories of 2021
At the center of Europe, the Benelux area instructions a strategically essential place in connecting the continent to the world.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg even have what is required for a complicated tech sector. They are comparatively wealthy and have a wealth of human expertise and excessive training requirements, with lecturers within the area setting new floor.
To this finish, what occurs within the Benelux IT sector is intently watched by the world. Part of the curiosity is within the area’s penchant for making an attempt to do issues a bit in another way, making it and its individuals nice testers for brand new tech innovation.
Here are Computer Weekly’s prime 10 stories about IT within the Benelux area.
1. Dutch IT agency transforms HR coverage constructed on classes from pandemic
Software agency rips up human assets rule ebook and replaces it with a hybrid working coverage.
2. Openness can shield Dutch firms in opposition to ransomware
Dutch companies that endure ransomware assaults have to be extra open about it, if this rising drawback is to be introduced beneath management.
3. The Netherlands works on resilience with large-scale nationwide cyber train
For the Netherlands, the largest problem in a large-scale cyber disaster is to keep up velocity whereas exercising due care.
4. Benelux CIO interview: Benoît Dewaele, Vandemoortele
CIO of Ghent-headquartered meals group says the IT division’s principal challenges are bettering digital buyer experiences, serving to implement automation in vegetation and strengthening cyber safety.
5. Dutch researchers construct safety software program to imitate human immune system
Software might assist IT techniques develop immunity to some cyber assaults in an identical approach to how the physique fights an infection.
6. Belgium’s Federal Justice Service advances digitally with quick networks
Security and networking corporations staff to assert 20 occasions sooner connectivity for Belgium’s justice system, so it may possibly maintain courtroom hearings and jail visitations remotely and trade info between providers and functions securely.
7. Data of hundreds of Dutch residents leaked from authorities Covid-19 techniques
Weak entry controls and outdated techniques blamed for leaking of the private particulars of hundreds of Dutch residents examined for Covid-19.
8. Dutch scientist receives prime award for work on digital media’s impact on society
Utrecht University media scientist José van Dijck wins the Spinoza Award and funds for her analysis into the consequences of social media on society.
9. TCS opens its first European innovation centre in Amsterdam
Netherlands capital hosts TCS’s newest innovation hub, which can convey collectively an ecosystem to handle the problem of sustainability.
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10. Reports increase alarm over Huawei entry to Dutch networks
Espionage accusations increase safety questions for Netherlands organisations utilizing Chinese provider’s gear and providers.
