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Reigate and Banstead Council implements LogRhythm log and event management solution to meet CoCo requirements(07/08/2009)
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is responsible for 127,000 residents and covers an area of 129 square kilometres. Like all councils in England and Wales, Reigate and Banstead must sign up to a Code of Connection (CoCo) before it can connect to the UK Government Connect Secure Extranet (GCSx) - a private wide area network for secure communications between connected government organisations. As CoCo has specific requirements on how log data is stored, managed and accessed, it triggered Reig... [more]
Councils must review their security procedures now to meet the CoCo regulation(14/07/2009)
The deadline for Government’s Code of Connection (CoCo) compliance, which is a set of standards for the future of communications between local and central government, has recently been moved to September 30th, 2009. Deepnet Security has issued a stark warning to councils, that they face data loss and ID theft by failing to act on the Government’s Code of Connection (CoCo) standards. Deepnet is warning that councils must review their security procedures now to meet the regulation, which requi... [more]
Local authority not meeting GCSx CoCo rules run the risk of losing data and being cut-off from Government networks(20/03/2009)
The Government Connect Secure eXtranet (GCSx) and Code of Connection (CoCo) rules kick in on March 31 and any local authority not meeting the rules could run the risk of losing data and being cut-off from Government networks. Local authorities, education and emergency services could being faced with ex-communication from Government networks as the March 31st compliance deadline approaches. "Many Public Sector departments in the UK make extensive use of remote access technology and staff reg... [more]
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