Essex County Council is to upgrade ICT services for 200,000 users in an GBP 81m next generation network (NGN) contract that also aims to cut costs. The council awarded the NGN contract to Daisy Updata Communications Limited (DUCL), a ...
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About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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Insurance broker R K Harrison has teamed up with Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, to offer complimentary pre-incident consulting services for clients purchasing cyber liability policies through R K Harrison. Apart ...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been hit with pound 325,000 monetary penalty for breaching the Data Protection Act. The penalty is the highest since the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was granted the ...
A Yahoo user has sued the web portal company for negligence for allowing more than 450,000 user names and passwords to be stolen from one of its sites. Jeff Allan of New Hampshire, whose login credentials were posted online after a ...
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American International Group (AIG) has introduced CyberEdge business risk and insurance cover in the Middle East to negate the threat of cyber-attack to a company. AIG MEA Region Professional Indemnity head Juliette Pettit said, ...
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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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An inquiry is underway after the website of Conservative MP David Morris was hacked at the weekend. David Morris,MP for Morecambe&Lunesdale,said an organisation claiming to represent"Freedom for the Mujahideen"had taken over his website ...
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European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has advocated to impose mandatory cyber insurance for firms and urged insurance firms to develop related schemes, which will assist them to save reputational damage. The agency in ...
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The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has rolled out an insurance product with an aim to assist small to mid-size health care organizations to manage their data breaches and health care fraud. The product, ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for ...
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ACE USA has launched the Privacy and Network Security Liability Endorsement to help expand privacy protection coverage for both Healthcare Facilities and Managed Care Organization policies. Complementing the ACE Medical Risk's existing ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. ...
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NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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