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Data Protection - HMRC and MOD data security breaches

Written by Ian Congreave - Filed under: Information Security on July 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

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UK flag Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, has announced that enforcement action is to be taken against HMRC and the MOD following recent serious data breaches.

Posted July 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

Information Security - DBERR publishes results of 2008 survey of breaches

Written by Ian Congreave - Filed under: Information Security on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

UK flag The Information Security Breaches Survey is published bi-annually by the DBERR and PricewaterhouseCoopers plc. The results of the 2008 survey have been published and show, among other things, that most businesses are now investing in security defences and that information security breaches are causing less disruption to companies’ operations than two years ago. In the past six years, the number of businesses that have published security policies to their staff and provide on-going security awareness training has doubled. However, only 11% of businesses have implemented the sensible British Standard on Information Security Management and 79% are not aware of its contents.

Posted May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »