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Good news...

 

Can't say anything to anyone yet - but was told I've won something this week, not to say and not my usual either.  Here's hoping it all goes swimmingly...

£500k Data loss fines come into Law

Hi, I mentioned earlier that some fines were likely to come in to law - well they just have.  So if you haven't got your house in order you probably should be thinking about it.

Whether you are governed by PCI, FSA or anything else this is the catchall - so make sure you are on top of it. 

Oh, and it lok like a few guys

Zurich Insurance

(who lost 46,000 unencrypted records)

Royal London

(who had over 2,000 stolen)

just missed out on being the first big fine... good old post ex-facto...  ;-(

Watch out all you data protection guys...  call us if you need a hand...

IP-CCTV: Upcoming Seminar with our IP Security partners King Communications

Looks like the date is in for our next IPCCTV Event -Thursday May 06, 2010, 09:30-12:30

We've been working with Guys at King Communications to get the tweak the agenda for the intended audience.  We've listened to the feedback from the last three events and think this one will be even better than the last.

The event will be held at the Dakota Hotel at Eurocentral will feature a number of in depth demonstrations of Milestone XProtect Corporate software and you will be able to see the systems running on IBM System X Servers and Storage.

XProtect 3.1 and Smart Client 5.0 Launch Webinar MIPS 2010 from Fredrik Wallberg on Vimeo.

The last event had over 60 attendees and we expect more this year.  You can register on the Kings Event landing page here and if you want to let your network know what you are up to you can declare you are attending on linkedin.com by adding the event to your linkedin profile.

#ipcctv #ipcctvscotland

IBM wins Best Security Company in 2010 SC Awards

IBM scooped the Best Security Company at Secure Computing 2010 Awards.  Click these here links for a full list of finalists and winners.   IMHO this is cos IBM has been going all aquisitive on us and snapped up, it would appear strategically (well done guys), all sorts of niche solutions over the past four or five years.  Noteably for those of us at Seric Towers are of course Watchfire (2007) and Ounce Labs (2009) and we do see a fair bit of ISS (2006) out there in cyberville.  Throw these bad boys into the already reasonably juicy mix and rub some GBS on it and IBM have a good story to tell those enterprise boys.  Good enough to win the Security Company of the Year from SC at the largest awards in the Security Industry Calendar.

Here are some of the factoids about what IBM is doing to get just such an accolade

• 7,000,000,000+ security events managed daily
• 48,000+ vulnerabilities tracked in the IBM X-Force research and development database
• 15,000 researchers, developers and subject matter experts on security initiatives
• 4,000+ customers managed in security operations centres around the world
• 3,000+ security & risk management patents
• 40+ years of proven success with security and virtualisation

Why am I telling you this - well this would be the shameless plug section of the blog, we do this stuff!  We supply and support the IBM's Rational AppScan Suite - covering black and whitebox application scanning.  If you want secure code out there that won't leave you with egg (a fine) on your face (balance sheet) get in touch!  Look, I even have a snazzy graphic for this stuff on my blog - yes, I spotted it should read PROTECTED

There are are 10 different siblings in the AppScan Family.  You can compare the members of the AppScan clan here - though it is a particularly bad page as the row headings don't change with teh product changes and products look devoid of features when they are in fact irrelevant.  Anyway - pick three and compare like-for-like, find what you like and then call us 0141 561 1161  - we'd like that  ;-)