Consider:

One email in 281 contains a virus or phishing attack. Over three quarters of all email is spam.

A UK government survey found that 72 per cent of organisations with between 50 and 500 staff suffered an average of 15 incidents a year.

Skipton Financial Services

Skipton Financial Services has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for not encrypting the information of 14,000 clients on a laptop that was stolen.

The laptop contained names, dates of birth, NI numbers and investment amounts.

Ministry of Defence

The MoD admits16 information leaks in the last 18 months were due to social networking use.

A joint investigation has led to revelations that Ministry of Defence staff and military personnel leaked secret information 16 times on social networking websites and internet forums in the last 18 months.

Downloads of illegal software and music at work increases by 55 per cent.

ScanSafe has revealed that this increased over the past three months, as high-speed internet connections have enabled even faster illegal downloads. Often, an employer will be held legally responsible for any wrongful acts committed by an employee in the course of their employment'.

Securapro two-factor authentication

Product overview

Securapro delivers two-factor authentication services to businesses without the need for expensive infrastructure investment or the need for specialist technical knowledge. The simplicity of the dedicated portal is core to delivering a hasslefree interface. Put simply the Securapro Portal delivers the easiest to use administrator tools of any two-factor authentication service on the market.

The Securapro Authentication Portal is accessible from anywhere, via a standard web browser. The interface itself is naturally secured using two-factor authentication.

Getting the service up and running is incredibly simple and requires no investment in infrastructure or changes to business processes. Log-on requests are now authenticated via the Securapro Authentication service rather than the access device or server. When they are logging on, users simply replace their passwords with a token generated code. The Securapro infrastructure ensures that everything is in place to provide a hassle free access security mechanism that locks the door to unwanted intruders.

The Securapro Authentication service is managed through a simple to use portal that can be accessed from anywhere.The portal is easy to navigate and requires little training or technical know-how. The portal also provides a service provider or systems integrator with the option of delivering the service and managing all of its customers from a single point. Using any standard browser the portal provides simple and easy access to applications that allow for set-up, provisioning, support and ongoing activity reporting for companies or individual users.

In addition to this, Securapro Authenticationn comes with an additional user self-service portal with allows end users themselves to resolve simple issues such as PIN resets or token re-synchs – as well as the ability to request emailed OTP’s should they lose their token.

The Securapro Athentication service is easily integrated into a company’s network infrastructure or delivered as part of an overall network based service. It delivers hassle free and affordable authentication for users who require access to a network or web site. Many companies now have multiple access points and have implemented comprehensive architectures to group users and adopted sophisticated mechanisms for controlling access for certain groups.

Putting users into groups within the Securapro authentication services has a number of benefits:

• Certain groups can be set up to access certain applications only
• It is possible to restrict access to certain groups
• Groups of users can have different parameters set

The benefit of cloud-based computing and managed services is the ability to scale the service depending upon the fiscal or resourcing needs of the organisation. The service has the flexibility to scale from 10 users to many thousands of users. It also has the ability to scale when supporting a roll-out that needs to reach out to thousands of small business customers.

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