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"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News The government and its agencies should be a shining example in the treatment of sensitive and personal data for individuals. The loss of the stick follows a number of similar accidents at... [27 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The number of civil service staff able to log into central government systems remotely stands at approximately 48,215 - just over 14 per cent of the 337,037 civil servants across the main central Whitehall... [30 Jul 2008]
IT Training in California: Gateway Meets the Need
White Paper Its Training Center has provided technical training to employees of state, federal and local government agencies for more than a decade. California's Health and Human Services Data Center (HHSDC)... [03 Jul 2008]
Building the New Face of Government
White Paper It's the place where the people's business gets done - the focal point for a network of operating agencies and departments that reaches across a jurisdiction. People traveled to these locations to find... [03 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Network Security for Government Agencies
White Paper And for good reason: in 2003, more than 1.4 million cybersecurity incidents were documented at federal agencies and departments. Due to the 2002 Federal Security Management Act (FISMA), many federal... [03 Jul 2008]
Combating Terrorism: The 9/11 Commission Recommendations and the National Strategies
White Paper They are designed to provide broad guidance to the departments and agencies of the federal government, foreign allies, the Congress, local authorities, and the American public. On one... [03 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment After HMRC's data loss, the government instructed all departments to encrypt laptops and has issued new guidance developed by the Communications Electronics Security Group on the standards to be applied. [27 Mar 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News Michael Small, director of security management strategy at security vendor CA, said: "It will be interesting to see whether the [Forum's] remit extends to address the recent spate of data-breach cases, like the HMRC and NHS data losses,... [20 Mar 2008]
Miami Trims City-Wide Network Costs by Uniting Into Single Windows 2000 Enterprise
White Paper As a result, the agencies were burdened with administrative challenges and unexpected downtime due to outdated hardware and software. Operating under tight budgets, the City's core IT departments are... [20 Feb 2008]
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment While the emergence of a single common policy for the public sector is highly unlikely, it is essential that the Office for Government Commerce develops a set of guidelines for departments and... [14 Feb 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Agencies most commonly requesting data at this level are Trading Standards Service, Environmental Control and Housing Benefits Departments, according to the report. I am satisfied that the intelligence... [30 Jan 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News The ongoing data loss fiasco in government continued with a raft of new breaches being revealed across government departments and NHS Trusts. Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues... [30 Jan 2008]
Major Northern Ireland Government Services to Launch Online Following Robust Security Implementation
White Paper Like most public sector agencies, Northern Ireland central government departments and local authorities are under pressure to meet U.K.government deadlines to get core... [14 Jan 2008]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader The Prime Minister's decision to allow the Information Commissioner to make spot checks on data storage and security at government departments is welcome but it's too little too late. The original... [22 Nov 2007]
Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown said all government departments and agencies will also have their procedures for the storage and use of data checked by security experts. The... [22 Nov 2007]
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