Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don\u2019t get the attention they deserve.\n\nAt this month's event, the 29th in our series, the speakers presented their work in an exciting, quickfire format. Each speaker had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience.\n\nOur partner, Ploughshare, the Ministry of Defence\u2019s Technology Transfer Office, helped bring together speakers from cyber and defence around the theme, 'Mission Possible \u2013 Getting the right data, to the right people with the right permissions to inform and act.'\n\nThis month's speakers were:\n\nMark Darbin, Principal Scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on a Ministry of Defence approach to sharing the right data at the right time through Information Based Security Architecture (IBSA)\nAndrew Garner, Lead Security Architect at UK MOD Strategic Command Cap C4ISTAR on communicating and sharing information securely with partners within Mission Partner Environments (MPEs) using data-centric security aligned to Zero Trust Architecture principles\nWendy Griffiths, Product Manager at Tarian Technology on how to eradicate the cyber threat using data centric security.\nAndrew Read, Systems Engineer at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, a case study on sharing intelligence data within NATO\nThe event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government.\n\n#IfGDataBites\n\nThis event is kindly supported by Ploughshare.