ICO serves first fines for data losses

Today, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have fined 2 organisations a combined total of £160,000 for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act. Full press release here.

One of these is an employment services company who had issued an employee with an unencrypted laptop so that they could work from home - a very familiar story for organisations across the country. However, this is where the story takes a turn for the bad, with the laptop stolen meaning that personal information relating to over 20,000 people had fallen into rogue hands.

2 of Redstor's leading cloud services include full end to end encryption. Redstor Protector combines laptop encryption, device trace, remote data deletion, automatic backup and port access control. This enables organisations to fully manage their risks in the event of having laptops stolen. You can find out more about how Redstor Protector can help you protect your data by downloading our whitepaper here.

Redstor Online Backup is an automated backup service, your data is sent over your existing internet connection to one of our secure Data Centres before mirroring to our secondary Data Centre for Disaster Recovery purposes. From the moment the data leaves your site, whilst in transit and right the way through until it resides in our Data Centres; it's fully encrypted to give you that peace of mind you've got off-site data protection.

ICO takes action against Google

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have written to the world's leading search engine Google to advise them their recent Google Street View project significantly breached the Data Protection Act.

Since April 2010, The ICO have had the power to impose fines of up to £500,000 on organisations who breach the Data Protection Act. Within this legislation includes specific reference to the encryption of data.

"Organisations can minimise the risks of security breaches involving personal information by ensuring that all portable media devices containing personal information are encrypted. Staff must be adequately trained and organisations should give proper consideration to restricting staff from downloading large volumes of data onto memory sticks and other portable devices. All personal information held within buildings and offices should be protected by adequate security arrangements to prevent theft or the loss of the data."

The full legislation is available on the ICO website.

Google's breach is so far the highest profile case and has resulted in Christopher Graham, who is appointed as Information Commissioner by HM The Queen writing directly to Google, who will now have to sign an indemnity to appear on the ICO's website as well as be subject to a full ICO audit. Christopher Graham said, "It is my view that the collection of this information was not fair or lawful and constitutes a significant breach of the first principle of the Data Protection Act."

"The most appropriate and proportionate regulatory action in these circumstances is to get written legal assurance from Google that this will not happen again - and to follow this up with an ICO audit."

2 of Redstor's leading cloud services include full end to end encryption. Redstor Protector combines laptop encryption, device trace, remote data deletion, automatic backup and port access control. This enables organisations to fully lockdown their laptops in the event of them being lost or stolen. You can find out more about how Redstor Protector can help you protect your data by downloading our whitepaper here.

Redstor Online Backup is an automated backup service, your data is sent over your existing internet connection to one of our secure Data Centres before mirroring to our secondary Data Centre for Disaster Recovery purposes. From the moment the data leaves your site, whilst in transit and right the way through until it resides in our Data Centres; it's fully encrypted to give you that peace of mind your data is secure and protected off-site.

If you're unsure of the current level of protection for your data then you should call the Data Protection specialists Redstor on 0118 9515 200.

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Redstor Protector Already Making the NEWS

So soon after we announce the 'ALL NEW' Redstor Protector it is already making the headlines:

SNS UK
IT Analysis
Contingency Today
ICTZINE
Storage Newsletter

Redstor Protector is offered as a Cloud Service and fully integrates automatic PC online 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 more protection against data loss or theft than five point solutions can offer.

If you would like more information on Redstor Protector or would like find out how your organisation can offer the servce under it's own brand, please contact mark.treweeke@redstor.com