This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

Public sector organisations are experiencing increasing levels of economic crime, including cybercrime, and are particularly at risk from being defrauded by their own employees and their suppliers, according to findings from PwC’s latest Global Economic Crime Survey. 

The risk of being hacked is one that all businesses face. There is only so much that defensive and preventative security measures can do to protect your business. But what if you could hack the hacker? This white paper presents a radical solution for protecting your network. 

Ovum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT. 

By now you've heard all about what the can cloud offer, but before you jump the gun, you must also consider the risks that this infrastructure model can introduce. This white paper examines a new cloud system that enables a hybrid approach so you can enjoy the cloud without compromise. 

This 10-page Buyer’s Guide to Network Security helps CIOs and senior IT professionals to identify what technology will best provide the additional protection needed against today’s threats. 

This paper examines cloud computing models for data warehousing and the differences between public versus private clouds. 

This third part of a four-part series on hybrid clouds features insight from leading companies on how to rapidly incorporate private and public cloud applications into legacy application portfolios. This particular webcast focuses on mobile applications and security. 

<p>Many firms are now planning to run mission critical workloads on public cloud, according to this research from Forrester and BMC.</p> 

View this exclusive webcast to learn why context and situational awareness are necessary for advanced threat detection and behavioral analysis, how enerprises are using Security Intelligence to combat insider threat, how to detect threats that many security products are missing, and more. 

Read this paper to learn the many benefits of cloud computing as well as the 10 security concerns that need to be addressed when considering moving critical applications and sensitive data to public and shared cloud environments. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn about the real life public cloud journeys of numerous organizations from various industries. Discover the challenges they faced, the lessons they learned and how they went about selecting the right cloud vendor and solution to meet their business requirements.</p>