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IT managers are overconfident in their ability to prevent data breach threats from zombie accounts

A global survey of 236 business managers from large enterprises – more than half from companies with at least 10,000 employees - reveals that 53% of IT managers are largely unaware of employee access rights to systems. This causes a proliferation of zombie accounts – accounts that remain active after employees have left the company. However, these same administrators say they have a high level of confidence that zombie accounts cannot trigger a malicious attack or perpetrate a data leak, despite... [more]

GPsecure secures NHS N3 network connections between GP surgeries and their primary care trusts

Hytec, part of OLM Group, has announces the availability of GPsecure, a new solution to secure NHS N3 network connections between GP surgeries and their primary care trusts (PCTs). GPsecure will help PCTs meet NHS Connecting for Health guidelines to ensure that GP surgeries within their trusts are electronically secure. While N3 is a private network, the integrity of its data depends on its users having secure connections. “Information security within primary care is something that the gen... [more]

Bosch Aspirating Smoke Detector 420 Series offers early detection and exact localization of fires

Bosch Security Systems is extending its 420 Series Aspirating Smoke Detectors with a version offering very early detection and localization of fires. The new Aspirating Smoke Detector TM features ROOM-IDENT. This feature enables individual identification of up to five rooms and quickly tracks down the source of a fire in four phases, displaying the result both on the unit itself and on the Bosch Modular Fire Panel 5000 Series. The new TM version also features a ten-digit bar graph for monitoring... [more]

Fired employees would take with them password list, R&D plans and customer database

Despite a sharp rise in data breaches and increased media awareness on the subject, the third annual Cyber-Ark survey reveals that 35 percent of IT workers now admit to accessing corporate information without authorisation, while 74 percent of respondents stated that they could circumvent the controls currently in place to prevent access to internal information. Twelve months after the Cyber-Ark “Trust, Security & Passwords” survey discovered that 33 percent of IT staff used their IT adminis... [more]

Vicon provides complete CCTV solution to Museum of London

Museum of London, which has an international reputation as one the world’s largest social history museums, welcomes visitors at three separate locations across London. Collectively the Museum’s buildings in the City of London, Docklands and North London, house a valuable collection of over two million objects ranging from prehistoric archaeology to cutting edge fashion. Museum of London has awarded Vicon a contract to fulfil all its camera, digital recording and video control equipment requi... [more]

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