security in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Security benefits have included the retention of data in the UK - something clients were keen for - and encryption of all emails between Ashurst and Mimecast. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its... [15 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Taylor Woodrow is also using Google's Message Discovery application for email security and archiving. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by adopting Google Apps Premier Edition to improve mobility and... [10 Jul 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows... [30 May 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Yan Noblot, principal consultant at Atos Origin, said: "It's interesting to see how information security has developed since 2002 and the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the one in... [16 Apr 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study The university has chosen to run its wireless network in parallel with its wired network for security reasons, according to Turnbull: "All the access points are on a network that's separate from our campus network but then linked back in to our... [18 Mar 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study N is for Network security Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using... [12 Mar 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study The company's founder and managing director John Paleomylites explained the launch team was drawn from the data security sector in 2005 and was looking at how the web could be used to collect quality data from customers. [29 Jan 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has improved network security using integration software to match staff records with systems access.silicon.com Public Sector He said: "This posed quite a security problem. [25 Jan 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study It also allows greater collaboration between workers in the company by allowing them to view calendars to organise meetings, while the security has also been improved. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in around 60 countries... [23 Jan 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study Security from A to Z Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to help fight email bullying. Based in the west of London, the university is one of the main higher education centres in the city and uses a distributed email system. [11 Jan 2008]
Monarch soars with Google search tech
Case Study The airline saw a significant increase in email queries following its introduction of online check-in earlier in the year and the tightening up of airport security last summer. Monarch Airlines has recently started to use Google's Custom Search... [03 Dec 2007]
Betfair fortifies its software code
Case Study Betfair introduced the Fortify Source Code Analysis (SCA) tool at the beginning of the year to identify, manage and fix any software security flaws. Security A to Z From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's alphabetical guide to... [20 Nov 2007]
Somerfield gets serious about wireless security
Case Study Somerfield has undertaken a security audit on its wireless networks, leading to a less draconian security policy that allows the retailer's IT department to take full advantage of wireless technology in the future. [05 Nov 2007]
ICI takes the plunge with WLAN
Case Study Paul Simmonds, global information security director at ICI, said around 20 sites have started to use the service so far. ICI has rolled out a wireless local area network (WLAN) to make accessing its corporate network both easy and secure. [10 Oct 2007]
Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade
Case Study Norton Rose inked a £5m data security and storage deal with BT last year. International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its communications network. The legal firm moved from six offices to a single London... [23 Aug 2007]
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