Martyn Redstone

Is your AI Security ready for the UK’s new Data Use and Access Act (DUAA 2025) or are compliance risks mounting? With DUAA now in effect, the way we handle data access, sharing, and automated decisions is evolving fast. This is a priority regulation designed to support AI innovation in the UK while ensuring secure and ethical AI adoption that protects individuals and builds trust. Key highlights that matter for AI security and data leadership: - For C-suite leaders and boards: DUAA raises the stakes for data governance accountability, requiring strategic oversight on AI risk management, regulatory compliance, and reputational protection. - Organisations must log and audit all data sharing and processing activities, ensuring full transparency and readiness for regulatory scrutiny. - The Act empowers the government to mandate data sharing from holders, including third-party processors, under secure, verified mechanisms like APIs and identity checks. Are your systems ready? - Only authorised, compliant entities can receive or process shared data, pushing organisations to strengthen third-party risk assessments and vetting. - Data sharing must use standardised, government-aligned interfaces, making secure interoperability a critical operational priority. - Regulators, including the ICO and FCA, get stronger enforcement powers, including inspections, compelled reports and substantial fines for non-compliance. - This Act aligns closely with existing UK GDPR and PECR rules but adds fresh layers focused on AI governance, digital ID and smart data frameworks. For AI security professionals, CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, DPOs, CROs this means a new era of responsibility, from securing AI decision-making processes, ensuring robust data sharing controls, to managing risk in multi-party environments. Want to understand how DUAA fits with frameworks like OWASP LLM Top 10 & Databricks’ AI Security Framework 2.0? Join our upcoming livestream with Databricks and Arhasi, Automation Reimagined, where experts will share insights, from research and engineering to architecture, compliance, operations, and strategy. Register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eWekQ4T5 Learn more about the DASF here: https://lnkd.in/ecnV8wBv What challenges or opportunities do you see with DUAA and AI security? Share your thoughts in the comment seciton. #DUAA2025 #AIsecurity #DataGovernance #CyberSecurity #AI

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Discover how 500 UK IT leaders approach AI governance in our latest guide, created with Acutest (Part of Trustmarque) and IBM. Gain actionable insights and practical tips to strengthen your AI governance strategy. Download the exclusive report here: https://lnkd.in/ez-AgaFD #AIGovernance #ITLeadership #AI #Technology #Innovation

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🚨 75% of UK IT firms still report struggling to hire top talent. (Experis, Q1 2025) The structural tech talent shortage isn't a headline, it's a massive drag on your Q3 roadmap and onwards. You have candidates, but you don't have the right candidates for complex AI-driven roles. Why are so many hiring managers failing to bridge this gap? MRJ's latest deep dive into the UK tech hiring landscape 2025 reveals the disconnect: 📍 The three skills you MUST assess (vs. the three certifications you can ignore). 📍 Why "Competitive Salary" means 15% above average for niche expertise. 📍 How to leverage Hybrid Work Flexibility to access the true geographical talent pool. Your competition is reading this. Gain the edge. 🔗 Access the full 2025 Market Mastery Guide: https://lnkd.in/e5vDiDm3 #TechRecruitment #UKTech

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AI is advancing fast across the UK tech sector. With 71% of professionals using AI at work, and 43% relying on unauthorised tools weekly - organisations need to act. For employers, this calls for stronger AI governance, clearer guidance, and a culture that supports safe, responsible innovation. 👉 Explore the full insights in our latest article: https://lnkd.in/e5gDWyTd

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How Craft Worldwide cut their freelance admin time by 88% (and avoided £6M in IR35 risk) 🤯 Before Worksome, Craft was managing freelancers and their details through smartsheets, CVs, and a whole lot of manual processes. Each booking took up to 8 hours to process. Onboarding averaged 11 days. And with no central visibility, their IR35 risk exposure was estimated at £6 million. That all changed with Worksome. Now: ➡️ Bookings take under 1 hour ➡️ Freelancers are productive in just 3 days ➡️ £680K in annual admin costs saved With Worksome, Craft consolidated everything into one platform: automating contracts and payments, simplifying onboarding, and staying IR35 compliant. “The benefit of using Worksome has been the ability to track every booking and payment, peace of mind that we are compliant and that we're using IR35 correctly.” - Plum O'Keeffe, Studio Bookings Manager, Craft They’ve built a freelance setup that gives hiring managers speed, finance teams clarity, and legal teams confidence. Read more about why our IR35 solution is one of Plum's favorite features in Worksome. Link in the comments ⬇️

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Tech salaries are shifting fast in 2025. We’ve seen a clear trend across the UK: - Mid-level engineers are flatlining - Seniors and specialists (AI, data, platform) are surging - London pay is no longer outpacing the rest of the UK by default Hiring managers: If your salary bands are based on 2022 numbers, you're probably missing out on great people - or losing them at offer stage. Get the full breakdown in our 2025 UK Tech Salary Report (link in comments) 👇

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A recent UK government trial has shown that AI coding assistants are saving government developers nearly an hour a day. That’s a productivity boost equivalent to 28 working days per year for each coder. Over 1,000 tech experts across 50 government departments participated in the trial, using tools like GitHub Copilot and Google's Gemini Code Assist. Key findings include: ➡️65% of participants completed tasks faster ➡️56% could solve problems more efficiently ➡️72% of users agreed the tools offered good value for their organisation. This is a powerful demonstration of how AI can enhance productivity and accelerate innovation within the public sector, ultimately leading to better and more efficient services. What do you think of these results? You can find out more in the official government PR: https://bit.ly/47GnzYb #ReedTechnology #ArtificialIntelligence #UKGovernment #Productivity

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🚀 Big AI alliance news in the UK 🇬🇧 PwC UK and Palantir have signed a multi-year, multi-million-pound deal to deepen their strategic alliance making each other preferred partners in the UK for AI and data transformation. Together they’ll combine: 🤝 PwC’s industry & consulting expertise 🧠 Palantir Foundry & AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) to help organisations in: 🏥 Healthcare (incl. NHS Federated Data Platform) 💳 Financial services ⚡ Energy 🏭 Manufacturing 🏛️ Government & public sector The goal: scale AI-led transformation, faster with real operational impact, not just prototypes. #AI #DataAnalytics #DigitalTransformation #Palantir #PwC #GenerativeAI #UKBusiness #NHS #PLTR #staffworx #talentpartner ♻️ businesswire https://lnkd.in/gc5Wn-gm

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The hiring game is evolving. Brand roles with commercial weight. Engineering briefs with deep expectations. Contracting bridging timing gaps. In this week’s Tech Talent Pulse we share the 5 trends we heard from leaders across UK, EU & US, and what they mean for your hiring strategy going into Q4 and 2026. 👉 Dive into the full edition: https://bit.ly/48LRy1h

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