St. Helens and Knowsley Health Informatics Service (HIS) serves about 12,000 users. In the wake of widely publicized breaches, government organizations throughout the U.K. face new mandates to protect private data. This case study describes how the HIS met requirements for securing data‐in‐motion by chooshing an Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliance from WatchGuard.

Midwest Eye Consultants (MWEC) operates 22 primary care offices, three surgical facilities, an optical lab, and a nursing home division throughout Indiana, offering optometry services, ophthalmological care, and eye surgeries. Having confidential patient means the company is subject to HIPAA regulations for data security and integrity.

Smart grids are touted to be the next-generation technology that will curb the rising levels of carbon emissions produced by the incessant, inefficient and unhampered use of electricity. But is the technology that full-proof when it comes to IP security?

During the opening keynote address at RSA Conference 2010, Art Coviello, President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC urged his colleagues in the security industry to embrace the challenges and opportunities presented by increasingly virtual infrastructures and adopt a more expansive security vision by focusing on the IT transformations associated with cloud computing.

The Imprivata OneSign Secure Walk-Away, designed to protect unattended hospital workstations from unauthorized access, has recently been rolled out. The innovative new product leverages intelligent computer vision technology with active presence detection and user tracking to identify an authenticated user in front of a workstation, automatically locking the desktop upon their departure and providing instant re-authentication upon their return.

The UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board has selected Citicus to develop a capability for managing risks to key industrial control systems that support the critical national infrastructure. Citicus will collaborate with RWE npower and other key industry partners to deliver a major advance in the protection and security of critical information infrastructures that underpin the continuous supply of essential utilities and commodities.

Three months before the coming World Cup, security vendor Symantec is warning Internet users early on to keep their eyes peeled for Internet scams that may be leveraging the highly anticipated event in the pursuit of cyber crime.

An “Asian hacking group” may be responsible for the series of attacks on Google and other companies in China, if the trails from various press leaks are to be believed.