Eldon Jobe A CLOUD cyber security app which can check data breaches within 24 hours rather than the norm of several months, has gone from two entrepreneurs’ germ of an idea to a company employing eight people in six months. Newcastle-based Melius Cyber’s co-founder and director Eldon Jobe, believes his company’s service of continuous monitoring of internet data breaches via the app will be particularly beneficial to SME’s who do not always have the technical ability to block or defend against cyber attacks. He said: “I have an extensive background in IT and could see the huge disruption hackers caused businesses large and small.
FRIDAY was another significant day for Hartlepool. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leader of the Labour party, Sir Keir Starmer, paid a second visit of the month on the same day. Hartlepool is certainly in the spotlight ahead of its by-election on May 6. Not since Stuart Drummond, under the guise of H’Angus the Monkey, was elected mayor in 2002 has it caught the political headlines quite like this. There are other reasons why it is important too. With various national media outlets focusing attention on what the coastal town has to offer. Hartlepool College of Further Education is being lauded for the part it plays in getting people into work.
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Darlington College and New College Durham Pictures: Google COLLEGE leaders cross the region have joined calls urging the government to reconsider a funding ‘clawback’ that could force a reduction in adult education courses. The government has announced it will revoke adult education funding from colleges if they do not hit a 90 per cent delivery target for 2020/21. Due to the disruption caused by Covid, the Association of Colleges estimate that average college delivery is likely to fall between 75 per cent and 85 per cent. As a result, the government could clawback between £68m and £22m, which could represent six figure totals of revoked funding for individual colleges.
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