Trustmarque partners with Sophos to deliver a Mobile Device Management security service to customers through the Cloud York, UK, 16 May 2012 – Infrastructure and software solutions Value Added Reseller, Trustmarque, today announced an agreement with IT security and data protection company, Sophos, to provide a managed service to protect mobile devices. Using mobile data [...]

I read with interest about the NHS’s adoption of open source software; 53 renal units across the UK are now using an open source system which allows their patients to access test results and clinical letters through a secure system, often even before their GPs get the results. The system is called RenalView, and it’s [...]

3rd May 2012 Other Features Include: Websense – Typosquatting is big business Credant – Are USB drives risky for your organisation? Microsoft – Helping you embrace the advantage of the cloud Download Issue 22

On Tuesday 29th May, Trustmarque is holding an NHS only Licensing Workshop to help you understand the impact’s when making decisions around delivering applications to end users from a licensing perspective. We will show you your options, aimed at saving money, driving efficiencies and utilising technology you already have. Reducing costs, but delivering more is [...]

The website of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) soca.gov.uk went offline on 3rd May 2012, following a cyber-attac believed to be made by ‘hacktivists’. Andrew Kellett, senior security analyst at Ovum, sommented in response that, “Operating in a state of security compromise is a reality that most organizations are not comfortable admitting to, [...]

Andrew Galey on why he thinks tablets are the future of mobility in healthcare Smartphones have long gained a foothold in the enterprise environment and the bring-your-own-device trend now also promotes the use of tablets in the business environment. Now, both devices are establishing themselves in the healthcare sector; a new generation of physicians is [...]

The government will amend the Freedom of Information Act to make it more friendly to its transparency agenda, it claims. Under a planned new ‘datasets’ clause, information that it thinks should be released in a form that can be used and re-used no longer has to be released via any separate approach to public authorities [...]

Last week saw the announcement of the PWC Information Security Breaches Survey Report at the Infosecurity Europe Show in London. This survey, which is carried out every couple of years, was undertaken in conjunction with Infosecurity Europe and supported by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and also draws upon some of the [...]

Instead of carrying around all those USB memory sticks that public sector workers seem determined to scatter in pubs and taxis the length and breadth of the UK, how about using Cloud storage as an alternative for convenient transportation of data? Of course the security-minded naysayers will already be jumping up and down in horror, [...]

Some more interesting security information has come out of the imminent PwC annual 2012 Information Security Breaches study that highlights how quickly Cloud has been accepted in government: half of the global organisations contacted of ‘national importance’ use Cloud for business critical data only 38% of large organisations ensure that data held by external providers [...]