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 [...]

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 [...]

The workplace has changed dramatically over the past few years. With the advent of new technologies and in the drive to increase productivity we demand ever more from our systems, our software, our hardware and our devices. This is particularly important now as so often we work on the road or from home offices, and [...]

10th April 2012 – I was reading the recent Gartner CIO Survey, compiled from the feedback of 2335 CIOs worldwide, and was interested to see that analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) tools were ranked as the number one technology for 2012. This wasn’t a surprise to us – analytics and BI tools really can help [...]

For years, customers wishing to hold information at RESTRICTED or Impact Level (IL) 3 have had to deploy Disk encryption products with CAPS certification.  At best, this has proved to be painful, expensive and resource intensive.  Anyone that has ever deployed such a product will grimace at the memory. Just over a year ago CESG [...]

I recently read a survey in Computer Weekly that looked at the evolving role of the IT manager within organisations. It is interesting to see how the face of IT has changed following the financial crisis. One of the key findings of the survey, which questioned IT Managers from 600 UK companies, was that their [...]

With the Cloud forming over the next hill, the apparent advent of all sorts of shared services, you’d be forgiven for thinking that securing endpoints is very last century (or at least, last decade). G-Cloud programmes, Google Apps and Amazon EC3 all get hyped like mad, and pour some consumerisation/bring your own device trends into [...]

Mobile devices in the workplace are nothing new. Throughout the past decade email on the go has transitioned from being a new and exciting development into an expected minimum. However, as mobile devices grow more powerful their capabilities have far outgrown simply reading emails and viewing calendars. Internet-enabled smartphones and tablets are now capable of [...]

This is an exciting year to be living in Britain, the Olympics will be here for the first time since 1948 and the country will also be celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Come summer we can expect to have a real buzz around the country as the world’s eyes turn to us. However, without wishing [...]

Wednesday 25th January 2012. Last year it was estimated that cybercrime cost the UK economy £27bn. Although the lion’s share of that was born by attacks on business (£21bn), government and the citizen were also affected by rising levels of cybercrime at an estimated £2.2bn and £3.1bn respectively. Typically, warnings of cybercrime have concentrated on [...]