http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/09/hmrc_data_security_progress/ By John Oates The Register 9th January 2009 HMRC's latest report reveals the department hopes to have fully implemented the recomendations of the Poynter review into data security by June 2011. Kieran Poynter of PWC was appointed to review procedures after the Revenue transferred 25 million people's child benefit records onto two unencrypted discs and popped them in the post. When they failed to arrive they were sent on another two occasions. According to the autumn report HMRC is "to make best endeavours to implement the Poynter recomendations by 25 June 2011". If you think this might be a rather leisurely response to the loss of details on almost every UK family in 2007, the report tries to reassure you. The department said it had already made good progress in removing the ability to transfer data to USB sticks and CDs unless "there is a compelling business case". [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Sun Jan 11 2009 - 23:10:37 PST
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