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Laptop stolen with confidential data on The Eden Project employees
The Eden Project in Cornwall has confirmed that a laptop containing the names, addresses, bank details, national insurance numbers and pay rates of 500 of its employees has been stolen from the car of an employee who of Moorepay Ltd - the company which handles the Eden Project's payroll. The Eden Project has joined the growing ranks of organ...
Half of all employees begin their new jobs using competitive information taken from their old jobs
New research from Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. shows that almost half of people would take useful information and data with them to their next job. It is unlikely that anyone would stop them as three quarters of companies, based on the recent survey, have no security in place to prevent information going out the door. Eighty five pe...
Websense Content Protection integrates information leak prevention capabilities with Web categorisation and filtering
According to Forrester analysts Jonathan Penn and Thomas Raschke in the December 2006 report, "The Forrester Wave™: Information Leak Prevention, Q4 2006, “ILP [information leak prevention] solutions must be able to set policy and make enforcement decisions based on content or context... Context-based policy enforcement consists of understanding t...
Security Of Corporate Data On Mobile Devices Is Declining
A recent survey conducted by Sybase iAnywhere shows that the majority of companies are still failing to encrypt company-sensitive information on mobile devices. 60% of IT professionals surveyed had sensitive business information, such as emails and passwords, stored on their mobile devices. Results from the same survey last year indicated that 62% ...
Recommended data protection strategies for distributed environments
The amount of data being generated and stored at remote sites continues to grow. While this data needs to be protected and stored in a separate location, it must also be quickly accessible when needed. Making sure all data is backed up to a separate location in a timely and efficient manner can be challenging; the most common remote site backup...
New York-based global financial institution selects keyAuthority enterprise key management solution
Enterprise key management is increasingly seen as an important way to address IT and compliance concerns in relation to data security. A recent survey by Taneja Group reported that 54% of respondents plan to deploy key management systems within the next 12 months. nCipher plc has been awarded a significant contract by a major New York-based glo...
Germany gets tough on computer crime
The German Parliament has ruled that many more categories of hacking are an illegal act and should be punishable like any other crime. It is now an offense to create, sell, distribute or even acquire so called Hacker Tools in order to obtain illegal access to protected data. Another new offense is the unauthorized access of secured data by means th...
AKH Vienna General Hospital Deploys Non-intrusive StealthWatch for End-to-End Network Visibility
With more than 2,200 beds and 9,000 staff members, AKH Vienna General is the largest hospital in Austria and one of the largest in Europe. The 2,200-bed institution opened officially in 1994. Lancope, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch™ System, has announced that AKH Vienna General Hospital has deployed the StealthWatch System, which levera...
NICE to provide the FAA with a centralized management solution for air traffic control data
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates and oversees all aspects of civil aviation in the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, the FAA is the element of the U.S. Government with primary responsibility for the safety of General Aviation (GA). NICE Systems Ltd. has announced that the FAA has awar...
Cisco and RSA partner to improve and simplify the encryption of confidential information
Cisco and RSA have announced they are working together to develop technology that will help customers improve and simplify the encryption of confidential information – such as medical records, social security and credit card numbers. These technologies will help customers encrypt data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media and manage the...
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