Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has selected security management firm Wave Systems' Safend Encryptor to encrypt sensitive data and manage and recover data securely. Further reading NHS Trust fined £175,000 for 'entirely avoidable' ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says charities and third sector organisations stand to benefit most from a data protection check-up. The privacy watchdog offers free day-long advisory visits that give small and medium sized ...
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Network security is still as necessary as it was 15 years ago when the Black Hat Conference was first beginning. Sure the players have changed and the sophistication, but it is a classic good vs. evil scenario still. A panel of experts at ...
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PC World - Is your browser up to date? According to the results of a new survey from security software vendor Kaspersky, nearly a quarter of the browsers currently in use are out of date. Surfing the Web with a vulnerable browser is a ...
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IT departments must be prepared to renegotiate IT support and invest in mobile device management (MDM) to support staff using their own devices at work. A survey of 3,796 consumers across 17 different countries by analyst Ovum has found ...
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been fined 120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. A solicitor that worked within the organisation was found to have sent 11 emails containing ...
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Government departments have been given the go-ahead to use iPhones to send and receive sensitive emails, as part of moves to broaden the number of approved public sector mobile devices beyond BlackBerrys. Under new guidelines, civil ...
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Simon Davies, founder of Privacy International, has blasted the online gaming industry for inadequately protecting gamblers' privacy and failing to adhere to basic principles of data protection. Further reading Information Commissioner ...
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Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
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Models Offer Rugged Durability and Customizable Features for Public Safety Market FREMONT, CA, September 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GammaTech Computer Corp., a major international manufacturer and supplier of innovative notebook and ...
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When it comes to things that keep CIOs up at night, mobility, particularly bring your own device (BYOD), is at the top of the list or near it. Mobile device management (MDM) products and services are often the reflexive response to the need ...
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US space agency Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 employees and contractors. Until the encryption process is complete, staff members are forbidden ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has slammed what it calls "an underlying problem with data protection in local government". It comes after four councils were fined a combined £300,000 for losing personal data. Leeds City ...
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Rugged Tablet Under $1,000; Includes Advanced Intel Pentium Processor FREMONT, CA, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GammaTech Computer Corp., a major international manufacturer and supplier of innovative notebook and tablet ...
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2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
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