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whitepaper One out of four organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past year. A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper It only takes one security breach and the harm to a merchant's organization can be permanent. Payment Card Industry's (PCI) is designed to safeguard credit card data from the time it is received until the end of its life cycle.
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper A security breach can result in significant financial loss, irreparable damage to reputation or worse. This paper provides information about payments industry security initiatives and other best practices that are recommended to developers for...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper When one's business' reputation is damaged from a breach of data security, customer trust suffers. Reputation is the most prized asset for any business. When customer trust suffers, sales are impacted and market position threatened.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper The shift towards electronic health records makes laptop management and data breach prevention a growing challenge. This whitepaper discusses IT asset tracking solutions to meet the challenges of laptop theft, mobile data security and simple...
[05 May 2008]
whitepaper As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a way to protect its rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach.
[03 May 2008]
News The government-commissioned Poynter Review of the breach that led to the loss of 25 million personal details after a junior employee posted two CDs to the National Audit Office is expected to be published imminently.
[01 May 2008]
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and customers...
[22 Apr 2008]
whitepaper A breach in network security could cost company a great deal in lost productivity, lost data, repair work, and loss of confidence among customers, partners, and employees. This paper provides a general overview of the most common network security...
[10 Apr 2008]
News It was not made clear whether the National Security Forum would have oversight of government departments, which have been involved in a rash of data breach reports in the past year. Michael Small, director of security management strategy at...
[20 Mar 2008]
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach has put individuals...
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops left in pubs and disks that go missing in the post. Companies in the UK are not typically required to disclose a data breach and are disinclined to do so if it impacts...
[10 Mar 2008]
News Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a further attack, citing the risk of a massive data breach on the system. D is for Data privacy worries But UK businesses remain critical, with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) fearing that...
[10 Mar 2008]
News A string of revelations about lost government data followed the HMRC data breach, including the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the
[29 Feb 2008]
News Lumension Security vice president, Alan Bentley, said: "The good news with this latest data breach is that the data was encrypted. The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay.
[29 Feb 2008]
Comment ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their...
[28 Feb 2008]
News Certified devices are easy to breach. The data exchanged on this line is not encrypted. Both terminals have tamper-proof mechanisms inside, but both can be circumvented by tapping the data line of the PIN Entry Device/smartcard interface.
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment I fear that few chief executives realise the capacity of a data breach to hole their business below the waterline. My fear is that it took a big data breach to bring this issue to the public consciousness.
[27 Feb 2008]
News Data breaches cost businesses nearly £50 for each customer record lost, with one UK company revealing the cost of a recent data breach hit £3.8m. Research sponsored by PGP and Symantec examined the costs incurred by 21 UK businesses after they...
[25 Feb 2008]
News The government has failed to address important concerns about security on the internet - including ignoring calls for a data breach notification law - leading a House of Lords committee to look at the issue again.
[22 Feb 2008]
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