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Active Dashboards software gives VSG a complete picture of key operational activities

Established in 2000, VSG hhas established itself as the fourth largest UK security firm with a turnover of over £140m. The company has a strong vision of growth and recently introduced a Screening & Vetting Service to its service portfolio. On joining VSG in September 2008 Barry Dawson, Operations Director, was impressed by the rapid pace with [...more...]

Imperva partners with NEON to provide database activity monitoring for mainframe users

Imperva is partnerning with NEON Enterprise Software to provide database auditing capabilities for DB2 on z/OS. Imperva and NEON will integrate and embed NEON’s DB2 auditing technology into Imperva’s Securesphere Data Security Suite. The addition of NEON technology to the Imperva SecureSphere Suite expands Imperva’s existing support for auditin [...more...]

Secure data management is the healthcare industry's most pressing issue

According to research from BridgeHead Software, secure data management is the healthcare industry's most pressing issue as hospitals transition from paper-based health records to electronic systems. The Data Management Healthcheck 2010, a global survey into hospitals’ ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems, found that the top IT spend [...more...]

G4S Technology streamlines internal business communications with Star

G4S Technology provides fully integrated building security systems throughout the world, protecting everything from small offices and schools to large multi-national organisations and high security Government facilities. Providing integrated security solutions that need to be available 24/7, G4S Technology must be confident that all systems are 100 [...more...]

Public sector organisations fail to keep records on secure data transfer procedures and costs

According to research by Software AG, over 50 per cent of public sector organisations are failing to keep records on inter-organisational secure data transfer procedures and costs. The information was obtained via a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, which quizzed organisations on their usage of postal and courier services for suc [...more...]

Fourth largest US payment processor selects Voltage Security for merchant end-to-end encryption

Elavon™, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, has announced that Voltage Security has been selected as part of Elavon’s comprehensive security offerings for its merchant network. Voltage SecureData™ featuring Voltage’s Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE), coupled with simplified key management supplied by Voltage Identity-Based Encryption (IBE [...more...]

Cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences

According to a recent poll, over half of organisations believe that cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences according to a poll from 360°IT, a fifth thought there would be no improvement and a quarter of organisations said that it will be detrimental. Richard Hall, CEO of CloudOrigin, claims that the current trend of [...more...]

The security issues associated with cloud computing in the public sector

The adoption of cloud computing is causing significant concerns around privacy and security in the public sector. The benefits for cloud computing are very compelling, especially as the Government looks to the private sector for proven techniques to drive down back office costs, make the most of new technology and use new management practices to en [...more...]

Half of US government workers have sent unencrypted data through their personal e-mail accounts

The need for secure file transfer has been highlighted by a report produced by Axway and Meritalk showing that over half of US government workers have sent unencrypted data through their personal e-mail accounts and two thirds use physical media to transfer government data. Some key points from the report: Federal agencies are leaving Federal [...more...]

Backup Direct chosen to backup the data gathered by the Catlin Arctic Survey 2010

The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 is a study on what effects greenhouse gases are having on the environment. An explorer team – directed by Polar Explorer, Pen Hadow and led by one of the top women in Polar Exploration, Ann Daniels - has been travelling across the Arctic for the past two months collecting data that will hopefully provide key scientifi [...more...]

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