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 from Octree

Product overview

UK businesses are dependent on IT systems and according to BIS, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, 97% have an internet connection. It is important to protect your IT infrastructure, data, email, network, and desktop and server systems as well as the systems of mobile workers. In addition it is important that IT security is extended to prevent breaches in compliance rules and regulations. IT security should be a high priority for every business.

Cybercrime is a genuine threat to UK professional services firms. The volume of malware threatening critical systems is on the increase, as are drive-by-downloads, phishing and zero-day exploits.

Standard features include:

• Full disk encryption.
• Email spam and content filtering.
• Encrypted email.
• Malware filtering.
• USB, CD and DVD device encryption.
• And much more.

Mobile workers and laptops

Laptops are popular alternatives to desktop PCs, because of their portability. They pose a greater risk, however, of theft and damage.

Securapro provides hard disk and USB encryption to protect your valuable data. And if staff need to connect to office systems from home, Securapro can ensure that they do it securely. We can also provide secure remote data backup solutions and disaster recovery planning.

Securapro from Octree provides your business with comprehensive protection from current and future threats. Simple to deploy and kept up-to-date automatically, it is the one-stop IT security solution. Securapro can be fulled integrated with existing virus protection software.

Employees and the internet

Email and access to the internet has become a key business tool for most UK-based organisations. However, employee misuse of these tools poses a significant risk for employers as well as having an impact on employee productivity as staff spend time surfing the internet or chatting to friends online via social networking groups like Face Book rather than getting on with their work.

Employers can also be liable for the actions of their employees. The sending of inappropriate emails to clients or prospects, the downloading of unsuitable material like porn or illegal music files from websites or posting inappropriate comments on public forums or blogs can damage the reputation of a company, and in certain circumstances can result in legal action.

For example a supermarket employee lost their job after writing an obscene remark about his employer on a social networking forum – airline staff were dismissed following negative comments about passengers which were posted on a networking site and staff at a hospital who were suspended during an investigation into photographs taken at work which were then placed online.

Securapro can help to monitor and manage employees access to the internet.

For more information call 0845 6171819 today!