Legal firm leaks personal data

The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet following a breach in security of a legal firm's website. The full story is available here.

This incident is now being reviewed by the Information Commisioner's Office (ICO), who since April 2010 have had the authority to levy organisations with fines of up to £500,000 for not taking the appropriate steps to protect confidential and personal data.

Redstor have been focused on data protection as part of our service portfolio around Data Storage and Cloud based backups.

Redstor Protector is a unique 'cloud' service that secures and protects confidential and sensitive information held on PCs and Laptops in the event of data loss or theft.

Combining policy-driven PC backup, at rest encryption, remote data deletion, port access control and device trace into a single product suite, Redstor Protector allows you to secure, backup and recover your data with ease.

For further information on Redstor Protector or any of our other services, please call 0118 9515 200.

Infosecurity Europe Podcast

Recorded as part of the Infosecurity Europe podcast series, Brian McKenna, editor of Info Security Adviser spoke to David Smith, Deputy Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office about the increased powers of the ICO, including the capacity to impose fines of up to £500k on organizations guilty of significant data breaches. David Smith advises on how best to ensure compliance.

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Redstor Protector, the simple, low cost computer security service protects against sensitive data loss and should form part of your information security policy.

Redstor Protector is offered as a Cloud Service and fully integrates online PC backup and recovery, at rest encryption, remote data deletion, port access control and device trace into a single product suite. Working together as a single solution, these components deliver protection against data loss or theft.

Since 1998 we at Redstor have been providing solutions around data backup and data security and if you want any advice around these issues and how the data protection act might apply to you then get in touch.