A British Embassy reception and a full appointments diary awaited a small business when it invested in tailored in-market research before visiting Saudi Arabia. Company Name: DISUK Evolving international regulations on data security and the vulnerability of the United States banking sector had led DISUK, the Silverstone-based IT company to pursue new markets. Although keen [...]

SafeTape and the entertainingly-named Paranoia 2 are sister products that provide compression and encryption for backup devices. Paranoia is a stand-alone encryption and compression appliance that sits between the backup server and the storage device; SafeTape is an appliance that includes both the Paranoia hardware and an in-built tape drive (any one of LTO, SDLT [...]

Tuesday, 24 April 2007 First true remote management solution for encrypted backup tapes and optical discs 24th April 2007 –Infosecurity Europe, London – DISUK today launches iSecure smart card management for its Paranoia2 and SafeTape in-line encryption devices that keep vital backup data secure and compliant with standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data [...]

Companies maintaining personal or sensitive data on their network have a  legal obligation to ensure its safety, but the number and variety of security  holes that need plugging can create a big headache. The list of threats seems  endless, but how many administrators think to include backup in their equations?  Any decent backup strategy will [...]

In the world of IT security, it can pay to be paranoid. Not “curled-up-in-the-fetal-position-behind-the-tape-library” scared, but healthily aware of the real dangers lurking inside and outside of the data center. If your shop routinely sends sensitive data off site for disaster recovery purposes and you’re potentially liable under one of the new identity theft laws, [...]

DISUK has announced that companies favouring optical media over magnetic tape for long term archiving will, for the first time, be able to encrypt their data ‘on the fly’, as part of the write process Date: 3 May 2006 The combination of optical storage media and encryption offers businesses the greatest possible guarantee of information [...]

It is quite clear that most people in the UK understand that our banks’ call centers are outsourced. But we would like to see regulations similar to those in California brought into the UK, requiring banks whose data has been exposed to notify all affected customers immediately (even if their accounts haven’t been used fraudulently). [...]

Over the last few years, protection against external attacks has been the main focus of information security policies and purchases but this has caused the other aspects of data security to be overlooked. A number of surveys over the last two years have highlighted the fact that the majority of real data losses have been [...]