Quantum computing is no longer a distant frontier—it’s a fast-approaching commercial viability, with major breakthroughs expected within the next five to ten years. For UK businesses, particularly those in data-sensitive sectors like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, the technology poses both a transformative opportunity and a looming cyber security threat. 

New cyber legislation from both the EU and the UK will provide added security assurance and introduce new requirements for businesses. By ensuring that more essential digital services are protected, the changes will significantly shape the future of data protection for UK organisations – with higher fines and penalties for organisations that fail to comply.

Missing persons represent a serious and ongoing challenge to governments around the world. The size and complexity of this challenge prompted Opencast to join a wider team to contribute to improving outcomes of cases of missing persons through the use of open source intelligence. Rosalind Grindrod, our Head of Security Services, reports.