Most organisations are failing to put the necessary protections around data in virtual environments, leaving them wide open to attack, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet. "In the virtual world, the basic security ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
Tags: security threats, BYOD, Ovum, BYOD schemes
Microsoft's Windows 8 is seen by many as representing an evolutionary jump for the operating system (OS), but what about security? Has there been an evolutionary leap there? In the run-up to the launch, much has been said about the new ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong-Like technologies deployed in a corporate environment,those used in healthcare are meant to improve services and productivity.On its new clinical management system(CMS 3),the Hospital Authority aims to create new ...
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Greater Manchester Police has been fined£120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data. An investigation into the force's data protection practices ...
Tags: ICO, Greater Manchester, Data breach
Many companies are not taking into account modern technology and methods when approaching data security, said Cisco senior vice president of security and government, Chris Young, at a press roundtable in London today. Young labelled the ...
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Mobile phone group O2 is gearing up to introduce a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme to its operations in Europe and South America, following a successful roll-out in the UK. O2, part of Spain's Telefonica, said the policy has helped ...
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
Tags: ICO, data protection, cloud service, encryption key, UK
Security and data privacy are still the top concerns for UK businesses adopting cloud-based services,research shows. Security(82%)and privacy(69%)top concerns when it comes to migrating to the cloud for the third year in a row,according ...
Tags: CIF, Security, data privacy, CoP, cloud service, UK
Although U.S.manufacturers and distributors are increasingly optimistic about their own businesses,many are deeply troubled by domestic and global economic conditions.These are among the findings in a new report titled the The McGladrey ...
The number of first-time users of cloud computing services in the UK has increased by 27%from last year,according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum(CIF). But the CIF survey showed that,while the rate of adoption has ...
Tags: Cloud Industry Forum, CIF, uptake rises, increased by 27 percent
Oracle has finally acknowledged and acted on a zero-day Java exploit that has presented a serious risk to users of all Java-equipped internet browsers for the past week. Recognising "three distinct but related vulnerabilities and one ...
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Malware is able to infect other malware and in some cases make it easier for anti-virus software to detect,an incident response investigation by data-security firm Trustwave Spiderslabs has discovered. The research looked at two pieces of ...
Tags: malware, data security, Trustwave Spiderslabs, Trojan, virus
Data security breaches across private-and public-sector organisations in the UK have risen by an average of 1,000 per cent over the past five years,according to figures obtained from the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). According ...
Tags: UK, ICO, Data security, Imation, Data breaches
Open source blogging tool and content management system WordPress has boosted its security by incorporating the Mydigipass authentication service into its platform. This means owners of the 54 million web and blog sites that have been ...
Tags: WordPress, Mydigipass authentication, Website owners, password encryption