/// Tag Archives: data protection act
IT Security Is All Wrong In The Private Sector
February 03, 2012
Gosport podiatrist’s records laptop containing both personal and medical details has been stolen. Any database containing medical information needs to be encrypted – period. Whilst...
Latest NHS Data Leak Highlights Need For Security Automation
January 17, 2012
Following the news that a former NHS care assistant has been convicted of obtaining the medical records of five members of her ex-husband’s family in...
Is Legislation The Right Weapon To Fight Cybercrime?
December 21, 2011
Around the world, data breaches are a huge problem with both Government and private industry struggling to mitigate the problem of lost data. In...
Why Don’t Businesses Take Portable Data Security Seriously?
November 29, 2011
When it comes to USB drive security, some countries are clearly taking it more seriously than others. A recent pan-European research from Ponemon Institute found...
How secure is our children’s school data?
November 16, 2011
There have been a number of news stories recently about high profile data loss incidents in the public sector. These stories increasingly involve laptops being...
Latest ICO research is a wake-up call to IT security pros
October 27, 2011
Research from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advises that businesses are waking up to their data protection responsibilities, so IT security professionals need to be...
Who owns your data?
October 03, 2011
In a highly collaborative workplace, with individuals co-operating across corporate and personal boundaries, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage data ownership. In the event...
Why the Betfair data breach sends all the wrong messages
October 03, 2011
Reports that Betfair has suffered a data breach – losing the details of around 3.15 million customers, including payment and bank details of some of...
Security compliance isn’t sexy but it’s vital
July 21, 2011
On your to do list of jobs relating to technology, it’s likely that the issue of compliance around security is probably some way down the...
Q&A: David Ting, Imprivata, discusses protecting sensitive data
July 05, 2011
Imprivata is a leading independent provider of single sign-on (SSO) and access management solutions for healthcare and other regulated industries, serving nearly 100 NHS Trusts...
10 tips for cutting government red tape
June 20, 2011
With just 60 government regulations costing UK businesses £13 billion a year to administer, it’s time to see if we can cut the cost of...
Extending identity governance to the cloud: 5 questions to ask your SaaS provider
June 17, 2011
Today, many organizations are exploring the viability of deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in order to streamline their IT infrastructure and lower their IT budgets. But,...
The mobile security conundrum
June 15, 2011
Whilst the range and variety of IT security defences for portable computers – that’s netbooks and laptops to most people – is excellent, and able...
Where is your data?
May 23, 2011
I think it’s fair to say that we’re all comfortable with public content being served from public services that anyone can access. I think it’s...
VDI helps improve business success
May 11, 2011
As with many other new technologies, financial organisations have been among the most keen to embrace desktop virtualisation. The main reason this particular technology is being...
