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Data privacy regulation, GDPR, has been in force for five years but it will soon be superseded by UK GDPR. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, now wending its way through parliament, will see organisations move to a UK equivalent following the countrys withdrawal from the EU. But what will the change mean in practice?

BBC's medical soap Casualty has been running since 1986 and, in almost 40 years, it's had many of Hollywood and TV's biggest names appear at the beginning of their impressive careers

UK government departments are losing hundreds of devices each year according to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted by encrypted drive manufacturer Apricorn.

Fifth of organisations believe mobile workers dont care about security.

Almost all (99 percent) of IT decision makers say they have backup strategies in place, but 26 percent admit they were unable to fully restore all data or documents when recovering from a backup.

Individuals and businesses alike are feeling the pinch, with the skills market and digital transformation projects in flux

More Businesses Adopting Encryption in the Last Year May 31, 2021 06:36 GMT   ·  Comment      Device Encryption As a new survey by Vanson Bourne shows, 32% of companies have seen an increase in device encryption in the past year, according to Helpnet Security.   In addition to that, 31% of companies said they now expect all data to be encrypted by default, whether at rest or in transit, and 24% require all data to be encrypted when stored on their systems or in the cloud. Furthe...

Encryption policies are widespread, but some organizations still block the use of thumb drives completely.