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A consortium of service providers, vendors, government organisations and consultants has begun work on a set of measurements called the Common Assurance Metric (CAM) designed to make it easier for businesses to compare the security features offered by cloud-computing providers.
The consortium said that overall, CAM will “allow cloud providers the opportunity to demonstrate their information [...]

Credit card users are once again facing up to the fact that their plastic friends may no longer be as secure as they thought they were. Research by the University of Cambridge, which was demonstrated on Newsnight, showed how a stolen credit card could be used to buy goods in a retail store by fooling the system [...]

In today’s corporate environment businesses need to be sure they protect personally identifiable information. As well as recovery costs and the risk of losing brand reputation associated with breaches, a key business driver for data protection is regulatory compliance and the legal implications of not following industry regulations.
The first step is to find out what [...]

The MOD is once again in the firing line for the loss of yet another laptop. The device, which was reported lost in November, was stolen from within the highly secure MOD building in London and efforts to find it have failed.
Data loss through theft is one of the most common ways UK businesses lose [...]

Once again personal private data has gone missing from a local council meaning that someone, somewhere has got hold of information that could be used for fraud. St Albans Council are now “troubled” by the loss but have yet to announce what they will do to ensure that it does not happen again.
Simple laptop security [...]

Data loss stories in the press are a regular occurrence. Government departments, credit card companies, and even email providers are victims and many companies still don’t see the threat.
Although businesses might not be able to physically stop the theft or loss of data, there are things that can be done to help eliminate the often [...]