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Compliance with BS 8484 ensures a lone worker device service is fit for purpose
The pool of lone working employees is increasing and together with their employers they face diverse and challenging working environments. It is the duty of an employer and employee to take all reasonable steps to ensure they remain safe. Choosing a lone worker device supplier, who is compliant with BS 8484, is the first crucial step to identifyin......
CEM Systems secure access to the new Midlothian Community Hospital
Midlothian Community Hospital will provide 88 new beds for elderly patients. The hospital will also include a day hospital, a dedicated physiotherapy and occupational therapy service, an out-patient department including x-ray service, child health clinics and a range of other healthcare services. CEM Systems' CEM AC2000 Lite security manageme......
Data protection laws are too relaxed and require revision
In April this year, the ICO was empowered to impose fines of up to £500,000 on companies found to have breached the data protection principles, while the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) issued a Call for Evidence to learn whether the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act 1998 is working and how it is impacting on individ......
SALTO Systems's offline access control readers combine with Siemens' SiPass security management system
SALTO Systems's offline access control readers now integrate with Siemens' SiPass integrated security management system. The combined SALTO-Siemens solution offers customers the opportunity to control access to doors using SALTO’s range of powerful offline solutions together with Siemens’ online access control system SiPass integrated – all with......
W32 Stuxnet-B rootkit can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC
Sophos has detected a rootkit that can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC, even if the user has disabled the Windows AutoRun and AutoPlay feature. The W32/Stuxnet-B rootkit exploits a vulnerability in the way Windows handles .LNK shortcut files, that allows them to execute automatically if the USB stick ......
Wales NHS Hospital uses CitySync's ANPR barrier control system to manage parking problems
The Wales NHS Trust Singleton Hospital in Swansea is using a new ANPR barrier control system to manage the parking problems with their staff car park. Previously, the hospital used a swipe card system to allow staff free parking. Unfortunately, the system was being abused with people lending their swipe card to friends to give them access to fre......
Brivo provides access control management at five CHRISTUS Santa Rosa hospital campuses in Texas
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System relies on Brivo OnSite SE/XE access control for improved security at five of its hospital campuses spread throughout South-Central Texas. INET Security and Surveillance is the integrator for this large and on-going project implementation. CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System is comprised of more than 40 hospitals, ......
10 percent of NHS trusts in England still do not have all of the processes in place to secure patient data
Since 2007 the NHS has been responsible for almost a third (over 300 incidents) of all data security breaches reported to the ICO. In April, the ICO was granted the power to impose fines of up to £500,000 for organisations that fail to protect data. Yet despite this deterrent, some health trusts are still failing to achieve satisfactory IG SoC asse......
American Hospice selects the NCP Secure Enterprise Solution to protect patient data
American Hospice is a national leader in the delivery of hospice services. American Hospice has selected the NCP Secure Enterprise Solution to protect patient data reported by its 180 home healthcare employees. Staff now use NCP’s remote access software to connect their Windows Mobile-based devices to American Hospice’s network, and access and ......
Top security tips for the summer holiday season
Top ten tips for IT and security managers to minimise risk during the holiday season: 1. Hackers don’t go on holiday - many frontline staff members are on holiday and resources are stretched, so the chance of a security breach not being detected is even higher than normal. Make sure you don’t take your eye off the ball when your workers are ......
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