Security & Data Protection

Data Security Protection - keep your business information safe

"The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will be able to order organisations to pay up to £500,000 as a penalty for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act," said an ICO statement. "The ICO has produced statutory guidance about how it proposes to use this new power, which has been approved by the Secretary of State for Justice, and has been laid before Parliament today."

This was the statement made in the press after legislation was passed on the 6th April 2010. It follows well publicised instances in the media which has involved the loss of laptops, mobile phones, CD-ROMs and removable storage devices on which entire data bases of sensitive information, including bank details, medical information and other personal information was listed and open to abuse.

The legislation is not to stop the use of such technology, but more to ensure that organisations take correct and responsible steps to ensure that if these devices are used the data on them is controlled, encrypted and protected.

These devices exist everywhere and, with the amount of USB attachable devices growing exponentially, it is vital that an organisation understands how it can mitigate against the risk that these devices can inadvertently facilitate.

At TSG Enterprise Solutions we fully understand the implications of this threat and how best to assist you in creating the correct environment to protect your business.

We can assist you with:

Creating a Security policy – How your business complies with the ICO
End point Encryption – making sure that all mobile data is encrypted
Secure VPN – ensuring that remote access is secure
Secure Login – Only those who should have access get access

NAC and Intrusion detection (IDS)

The job of delivering an effective IT security program is not trivial for private sector and government agencies alike. We hear “we need to do a lot more for less” with increasing regularity.
The motivation for improving overall IT security comes from many directions, including operational improvement and compliance, but all lead in the same direction: protecting critical information assets from those that wish to do harm.

Related but not directly controlled by the legislation is further threat that the use of such USB and sync able devices brings – Virus and Trojans.

By their very nature the use of USB devices are meant to make the movement of shared information easy. This is of course information that is useful to your business, but increasingly it is the unwelcome data that piggy backs so readily when devices move from device to device. In this context the term “virus” is perfect in its description.

The irony is that these devices are carried into the business by trusted people, who walk past firewalls and external facing security, and while plugging in for a day’s work, don’t know that they are about to “attack” the business through its network.

It is true to say that more attacks are born today from internal accidental events than through malicious attacks from outside.

At TSG Enterprise Solutions we deploy systems and software that we can deploy cover all aspects of protecting your business from these malicious and accidental attacks, ensuring that your systems are compliant, stable and available in a way in which your business can depend.

GSI/GCSx complaint networking

High Performance Network switching( up to 10G)

Centralised Control

Compliance- Policy based

Identification - Real time Intrusion Detection

Remedy – Real time remediation

For over 20 years we at TSG Enterprise Solutions have embraced secure networking methods and technology in order to deliver secure networks to sectors which demand compliance such as:-

Utility

Legal

Local Government

Transport

Power Generation

Manufacturing

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