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Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News According to Defra, Vista's power management features will help reduce the department's carbon footprint while the BitLocker encryption system will boost security. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

UK'should 'abandon' software market to China

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China this year fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low...

Tags: uk, saas, software

[14 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. Machines used by the army, navy and RAF will be given password-protected encryption using BeCrypt Disk Protect Baseline solution.

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year

News The hold-out elements that made up the remaining four per cent comprised "some encryption libraries, graphics libraries, the sound engine and some SNMP [Simple Network Management Protocol] management code", said a statement issued on Friday.

Tags: linux, java, sun

[28 Apr 2008]

UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months

News The ICO said in 16 of the cases it has required the organisation to make changes to procedure to improve data security, such as encryption. Nearly 100 leaks of sensitive personal information have been reported to the data protection watchdog in the...

Tags: security, ico, data breach

[22 Apr 2008]

Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption In the same week as new warnings emerged of a potential link between mobile use and cancer research has found Brits have a pathological...

Tags: crackberry, always-on, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

UK businesses testing the water with SOA

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they...

Tags: interoperability, soa, uk, implementation

[20 Mar 2008]

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere

News These people find each other over the internet, they use encryption to protect their data. The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), Sharon Lemon, has warned e-crime is so widespread it now plays a role in nearly every...

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

[19 Mar 2008]

Itil standard has mass appeal

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption Two-thirds (66 per cent) of companies around the globe are using IT infrastructure library (Itil) - the IT service delivery framework...

Tags: itil, infrastructure, cios, ogc

[03 Mar 2008]

Home Office laptop and disc up for grabs on eBay

News However, encryption alone is not infallible - computer hackers are determined individuals with the potential to crack one layer of security. Unfortunately accidents like this are not going to stop happening so we can only hope that other government...

Tags: home office, laptop, ebay, disc

[29 Feb 2008]

Windows Server 2008: Microsoft has listened to users

News Davis singled out the BitLocker drive encryption as a key feature as it will mean less time will be taken up responding to security incidents such as viruses. Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, is evidence that...

Tags: windows server, server, os, virtualisation

[26 Feb 2008]

Laptop theft breaks data protection law

News He warned that companies must take adequate measures to safeguard data on mobile devices before they leave company premises by using password protection and encryption and said those who fail to do so risk losing the trust and confidence of both...

Tags: dpa, breach, customer data, ico

[21 Feb 2008]

Data breaches: No more than normal

News If people used more encryption, they would have fewer problems," said the spokesperson. The ICO said that a common thread in these incidents is the devices lost had no encryption. Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: ico, whitehall, hmrc, security

[18 Feb 2008]

Unilever in $675m HP outsourcing deal

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… ¦ Galileo ¦ CRM ¦ Biometrics ¦ Encryption Food and household goods giant Unilever has signed a $675m outsourced IT services deal with HP for the next seven years.

Tags: savings, deal, outsourcing, hp

[13 Feb 2008]

BlackBerry backs the social networking 'revolution'

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption The secret of the BlackBerry's success is security, according to RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie - but social networking is its future.

Tags: mobile, social networking, security, blackberry

[13 Feb 2008]

Indian tech booming with a healthy spring in its step

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… ¦ Galileo ¦ CRM ¦ Biometrics ¦ Encryption The Indian tech industry is expected to generate around $64bn in revenues in 2008 - a 33 per cent growth - while also having a significant impact...

Tags: nasscom, economy, revenue, offshoring

[13 Feb 2008]

2008 - worse than predicted for IT spending

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption The global outlook for 2008 IT purchasing could be grimmer than previously believed due to the US economic difficulties.

Tags: purchase, 2008, it spend, house

[12 Feb 2008]

Careless homeworkers increase security risks

Careless homeworkers increase security risks

News Nic Evans, European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, said: "With secure VPN and disk encryption there is no reason why technically homeworking should be any less secure than in the office. A survey by Cisco this week found a lack of discipline...

Tags: homeworkers, cio jury, security, opening

[08 Feb 2008]

eBay bans bad feedback as customers scared off by nasties

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption In move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to prohibit sellers from posting negative...

Tags: auction, ebay, feedback, buyers

[06 Feb 2008]

Google launches online security tools

News Google has launched a range of web-based security applications for email filtering, encryption and archiving. The Google software as a service (SaaS) security tech has been developed through Postini, the security company it acquired last July for...

Tags: web, google, saas, security

[05 Feb 2008]

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