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IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey

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...

Tags: anti-hacking, survey, measures, explores

[11 May 2008]

PCI Data Security Standard: The Risk Mitigation Challenges of the "12 Commandments"

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.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Developer Security Best Practices

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...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: Low Risk, High Reward

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.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Healthcare

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...

Tags: asset management, laptop, laptops, tracking

[05 May 2008]

11-Hospital Health System Manages Growing Fleet of Laptops

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.

Tags: back-office, asset, health, electronic

[03 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

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.

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 May 2008]

UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

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...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

What You Need to Implement a Network Security Solution

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...

Tags: network security, network security, protect, deal

[10 Apr 2008]

PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech

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...

Tags: gordon brown, cyber crime, security, funding

[20 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

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...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

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...

Tags: threat, data theft, social engineering, security

[10 Mar 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

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...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC

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

Tags: full disclosure, data loss, hmrc, details

[29 Feb 2008]

Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay

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.

Tags: home office, laptop, ebay, disc

[29 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

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...

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked

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.

Tags: chip and pin, cambridge university, connected, entry

[27 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

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.

Tags: full disclosure, data, security, house of lords

[27 Feb 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

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...

Tags: full disclosure, law, data breach, legislation

[25 Feb 2008]

Lords take fresh look at data security

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.

Tags: data, law, lords, breach

[22 Feb 2008]

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