A few years ago Quocirca reviewed the deployment of Microsoft ISA server by The Kensington and Chelsea NHS Trust in all its remote surgeries and clinics. Microsoft was keen to promote the fact that ISA Server (ISA stands for Internet Security and Acceleration) had won over specialist appliance based offerings for network acceleration. ...
21/07/2009 | Blog_-RSP_-_for_web_-_July_2009.pdf | VIEW
As Quocirca discusses in its freely available report "Content Security for the Next Decade" policies that define the way data must be handled are fundamental to good e-security practice, but where do you store the associated e-security policies? A written set of policies for handling data should be the starting point and such a document should be readily available to all employees and, where relevant, external data users for a given organisation. But policy can be enforced through a range of security tools in various parts of the IT infrastructure and this can lead to policy needing to be defined in several places. ...
16/07/2009 | Security policy - July 2009.pdf | VIEW
With data breaches widespread, no organisation can afford to be complacent, but most data losses are avoidable. Many of the breaches making headline news are caused by the loss or theft of laptops and other portable devices. To protect themselves from financial and reputational damage, encryption technologies can reduce risks by ensuring the information on such devices is secure when users are on the move. They can also add value by allowing the secure sharing of information among authorised users and by enabling more secure remote working. ...
20/07/2009 | WinMagic final v2.pdf | VIEW
The need to share information has never been greater as cross-organisational business processes become deeper and more complex. The movement of digital information, both within a business and across its increasingly porous boundaries to external individuals and organisations, carries more and more risk as regulations are tightened around data protection and personal privacy. Those businesses that stay ahead of their competition in the next decade will be those that put the technology in place to allow them to share content widely, but safely. ...
18/11/2008 | Quocirca_-_Nov_2008_-_Content_security_for_the_next_decade.pdf | VIEW
The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made public at some point anyway, courtesy of the UK's Freedom of Information Act which the MPs themselves passed in to law in 2000. ...
19/06/2009 | silicon - dlp.pdf | VIEW
As enterprises recognise the costs associated with an uncontrolled printing environment, many are turning to specialist managed print services (MPS) providers. MPS services encompass the assessment, optimisation and management of the print environment. Increasingly, MPS providers are now adopting a partnered out-tasking approach by delivering flexible services that can be tailored to individual customer requirements. ...
27/06/2008 | Quocirca MPS Final Report Public.pdf | VIEW
To outsiders, the world of IT storage can sound a bit dull. However, if they stopped to consider the innovations that have occurred in storage during the last decade they should not fail to be impressed. Certainly those with the power to reward achievement have been so: in 2007 the Nobel committee saw fit to award its Physics Prize to Peter Gruenberg and Albert Fert for their discovery of giant magneto resistance (GMR) in the late 1980s. ...
03/03/2009 | Content security - SNIA - Feb 2009.pdf | VIEW
How do you take the complexity out of systems management, to make it easy enough for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) to use? ...
06/02/2009 | Simplifying systems management for SMEs.pdf | VIEW
The growth in the use of email and other forms of electronic communication between businesses in the last two decades has opened up a whole new area of risk. While there is an imperative to share information to keep business moving, all too often valuable data is getting into the hands of the wrong people. ...
13/12/2008 | Data leaks highlight need for content security.pdf | VIEW
In early Octiber 2008 Symantec ran its "Vision" conference in The Hague, the European centre of freedom, security and justice, as its executives were keen to point out. So what is Symantec's vision, does it bear scrutiny, is it delivering on it and was The Hague a good backdrop? ...
28/10/2008 | What is Symantec's vision.pdf | VIEW
