Today was the day that the ICO’s got the power to fine companies for data breaches with the amendments to the Data Protection Act finally coming into force. With the UK somewhat behind some of the EC this brings us closer in line with the the European Commissions E-privacy directive that the UK signed up to some years ago to uphold the privacy of individuals and specifically personally identifiable data.…
Recent reports have highlighted that hospitals and physicians in the US have been given a deadline of 2015, to convert all health records into digital form and then, to deploy the accompanying technology to handle these digital assets. Considering only about a quarter of the US population’s health records are digitally stored – this is a bit of a tall order!…
March 26, 2010 Tags: data security, healthcare, ico, large file transfer, secure file transfer
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Email is probably the best known and most widely used internet service in the marketplace to date. With an estimate quarter of the worlds population on the internet and a total of 418,029,796 users in Europe (over 50%), figures indicate that 92% of these users either send or read email.…
Traditionally, when a law firm needs to send confidential documents to a client in a secure manner, they send it via courier or mail. Organisations are accepting the fact that these methods are no longer adequate for a number of reasons, such as efficiency, security and expense.…
According to a survey published by Osterman Research Inc. in June-July 2009, using a sample of large organisations (over 500 employees and $5 million dollar revenue), 82% of employees resort to using personal email accounts when sending large files – compromising data security.…
With the sheer abundance of security standards, laws and legislation in our society nowadays, it’s really easy to get overwhelmed. Although a necessary measure to safeguard individual’s confidential information and protect your business against prosecution, it can be difficult to fathom which laws apply to your organisation when it comes to secure file transfer.…
Announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Justic, amends have been made to the Data Protection Act of 1988 that when passed in April 2010 will allow the ICO to impose fines of up to £500,000 on organisations found to be negligent regarding the privacy of personal data.…
The European Commission (EC) have publicly stated that the UK Government is not adequately enforcing European data privacy laws and is ready to clamp down on them in 2 months time. Reported on the Infosecurity web site and backed up by our recent discussions with the ICO; next year is likely to be the year in which Enterprises feel the full force of European legislation regarding the data privacy.…
November 2, 2009 Tags: european commission, european data privacy, ico, legislation, secure file transfer
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We hear it in the news week in week out. So and so company has left a laptop on a train containing 4 million unencrypted customer records, a hacker has infiltrated an online payment system stealing thousands of unsuspecting UK consumer credit card details – even today I have walked through the door and the first news alert in my email begins, “ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach.” I can’t help but wonder why data security is failing?…
October 26, 2009 Tags: annual data and privacy conference, christopher graham, data breach, data loss, data security, ico, pci dss, secure file transfer
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As I’m sure (or hope) you may have spotted in the news, we have recently added Biscom’s secure, ad hoc file transfer solution to our ever expanding product portfolio – another milestone in Pro2col’s endeavor to provide our customers with a wide range of secure, large file transfer solutions to meet their every need.…
