Posted by admin on September 21, 2011
This September alone, there have been at least four incidents resulting from improper physical data management practices: Walsall Council accidentally throws out hundreds of local residents’ postal vote statements The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) sells a filing cabinet to a second-hand store with children’s case files inside Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | 
Tags: 6 Million, Case Files, Data Management, Data Retention, Date Of Birth, Filing Cabinet, Insurance, Landfill, Management Issues, Management Practices, Payroll, Primary Care Trust, Retention Policy, Scottish Children, Scra, Second Hand Store, Shark Club, Social Insurance, Storage, Vote | 
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Posted by admin on March 18, 2011
Insurance services provider Endsleigh has deployed integrated log management and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions from LogRhythm to help comply with PCI DSS regulations.
Categories: internet | Tags: Dss, Endsleigh, Event Management, Insurance, Insurance Services Provider, Log Management, Security Information | No Comments »
Posted by admin on March 18, 2011
Insurance services provider Endsleigh has deployed integrated log management and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions from LogRhythm to help comply with PCI DSS regulations.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Dss, Endsleigh, Event Management, Insurance, Insurance Services Provider, Log Management, Security Information | No Comments »
Posted by admin on September 7, 2010
The UK division of Zurich Insurance was fined £2,275,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to prevent the loss of customers’ personal information. This is the largest fine ever levied to a single firm for data security failings in the UK. This fine is the result of Zurich Insurance losing 46,000 customers’ personal [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Bank Credit Card, Control, Control Data, Credit Card Information, Data Security, Data Storage, Financial Crime, Financial Sector, Financial Services Authority, Fsa, Full Control, Guardian, Information Data, Insurance, Outsourcing Arrangement, Storage Centre, Uk Insurance, Unencrypted, Zurich Insurance | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 26, 2010
Following the £2.27 million fine issued yesterday to Zurich Insurance for the loss of personal data, security experts have claimed it highlights the difficulties of data transfer and that systems need to mature.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Act, Fsa, Insurance, Insurance Personal, Personal Data Security, Personal Security, Security Experts, Zurich Insurance | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 26, 2010
Zurich Insurance has been hit with a fine of more than £2 million by the FSA following the loss of 46,000 personal details.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Confidential Records, Fsa, Insurance, Personal, Zurich Insurance | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 25, 2010
Following the £2.27 million fine issued yesterday to Zurich Insurance for the loss of personal data, security experts have claimed it highlights the difficulties of data transfer and that systems need to mature.
Categories: internet | Tags: Act, Fsa, Insurance, Insurance Personal, Personal Data Security, Personal Security, Security Experts, Zurich Insurance | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 25, 2010
Zurich Insurance has been hit with a fine of more than £2 million by the FSA following the loss of 46,000 personal details.
Categories: internet | Tags: Confidential Records, Fsa, Insurance, Personal, Zurich Insurance | No Comments »
Posted by admin on July 30, 2010
As we previously mentioned, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed the first HIPAA-related lawsuit. That lawsuit has now been settled, also a first. The settlement agreement [PDF] between the State of Connecticut and the defendants (Health Net) is the result of the loss of a computer disk drive that had unencrypted health information for 1.5 [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: 5 Million, Absolute Software, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Computer Disk Drive, Connecticut Attorney General, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Data Breaches, Financial Payments, Health Information, Health Net, Health Plans, Hipaa, Identity Theft Insurance, Insurance, Pdf, Privacy Law, Security Measures, Security Whitepaper, Settlement Agreement, State Of Connecticut | No Comments »
Posted by admin on March 19, 2010
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reported that the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society lost eight laptops and the personal details of 2,135 people.
Categories: internet | Tags: Information Commissioner, Insurance, Laptops, Lost, Mutual Insurance, People Information, Personal, Royal Insurance, Royal London Mutual Insurance Society | No Comments »
