Lib Dems demand tougher data protection
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Department of Health to publish minimum standards for the protection of data on mobile devices after compiling research on more than 150 cases of data loss in the NHS. The party used the Freedom of Information Act to ask strategic health authorities about ‘serious untoward incidents’ involving data […]
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Left to their own devices?
An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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McAfee wins contract for NHS data encryption
NHS Connecting for Health has selected security software specialist McAfee to provide solutions for endpoint desktop encryption and port control, to protect confidential data on NHS computers and mobile devices. The announcement comes in response to NHS chief executive David Nicholson’s December instruction to all NHS trust chief executives to immediately review and tighten their […]
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Over 10 NHS security breaches in last 6 months
The NHS has reported more than ten data security breaches to the Information Commissioner in the six months since the lost of 25m child benefit records. The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has revealed that his office has been notified of almost 100 data breaches by public, private and third sector organisations since the security breach […]
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