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Lexar Media: DeviceLock partners with Lexar Media to provide centrally managed endpoint security package

DeviceLock Inc. and Lexar Media have announced the general availability of a multi-layered, centrally managed endpoint security package. The bundle includes DeviceLock software and the Lexar Media SAFE PSD S1100 USB flash drive. After a number of successful pilot installations, DeviceLock is extending its availability by offering a bundled solution to customers worldwide. One such customer is Armanino McKenna, a California-based accounting and business consulting firm. “Accountants are alw... [more]

Loss Prevention Retail Council LPRC: Alpha Keeper system reduces razor blade shrinkage

Checkpoint Systems' Alpha Division has announced the results of a first-of-its kind study, which has found that Alpha high-theft security devices provide a drop in shrink and rise in sales of razor blades at a large U.S. retailer. The study was conducted by Read Hayes, Ph.D., Director of the Loss Prevention Retail Council (LPRC) and a well-known expert on retail security and loss prevention. It assessed the effectiveness of the Alpha KeeperT system in reducing shrink, increasing sales, affect... [more]

LogLogic: New Log Management Appliances for Mid-Market Companies from LogLogic

Compliance mandates - including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) - now require companies to track, manage, and report on their log data in order to comply with regulations and promote internal security and availability. LogLogic have announced new straightforward appliances architected and priced specifically for the enterprise mid-market (annual revenues between $400 million and $1 b... [more]

Lockshop: ABLOY controls access at Ninewells Hospital

High performance access control products have been at the heart of the security and safety regime at Ninewells Hospital, located on the western outskirts of Dundee, since it opened in 1974. Today, over 57,000 doors at the hospital, which is part of Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust and serves 400,000 people in Tayside and the North East Fife region of Scotland, are fitted with an ABLOY ® product. As the hospital expanded, local locksmith Lock Shop & Security Services met the security, sa... [more]

LogLogic: Confidential data theft continues in the workplace

Figures out today indicate that 42 per cent of adults in the UK have taken data out of the workplace to work on at home according to consumer survey experts TNS in a survey commissioned by LogLogic. Of these, almost half (45 per cent) stated that the data was classed as being company confidential while an additional five per cent were unsure on the sensitivity of the information. Less than half of the respondents (43 per cent) said that their bosses always knew when information was being r... [more]

Logica: Reduce rising fraud and corporate crime

Corporate crime poses a real and substantial threat to the stability of any business. Fraud and theft involving everything from intellectual property to inventory, from cybercrime to corruption, are multi-billion pound problems. All organisations are susceptible and taking the right precautions to prevent crimes is crucial. Risk does not distinguish between geography and size of a company, or between industry and scope. The risk is real, worrisome and ubiquitous. Some of these fraud violatio... [more]