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VirusEye: The Message Labs Update
Alex Shipp, chief anti-virus technologist at MessageLabs, keeps IT security managers up-to-date with all the latest virus news
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Archive TitlesStatement of intent
Very little research has been conducted on how financial institutions in the UK are managing the compliance requirements designed to prevent and detect money laundering. In the first of a series of PRCI reports providing in-house professionals with that which they most crave – definitive research results – Professor Martin ...
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Here's an idea
Modernising the way you back up your files can minimise the fuss when computers crash
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Why rebranding social housing is a good idea
Less than 200 days to the presentation of the National Housing Federation's new corporate identity … but of course you knew that. You've paid your 15% top-up fee and now that conference can't come soon enough. Even now I can see chief executive Richard McCarthy rising majestically onto the stage ...
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Archive TitlesFinders keepers
When it comes to hiring IT staff, social housing used to be a poor cousin to the private sector. Not any more. Katie Puckett looks at how to lure – and keep – computer whizz-kids
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Archive TitlesSystems failure
If councils could send benefit data to housing associations on email in a standard format, it would save everyone enormous amounts of time and paperwork. So, asks Katie Puckett, why don't they?
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Site for sore eyes
SITE FOR SQUARE EYES: Higgins Construction had to take an unexpected break from their work when camera crews descended upon the Silwood Estate in order to film a scene from “Think Murder” – a special spin-off of television police drama The Bill. The scene is scheduled to be shown in ...
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Soap in our eyes
George Tzilivakis reflects on the emotional lessons we learn from soap operas – and the ones we miss
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Harnessing the IT explosion
In last month's edition of SMT, Peter Manolescue examined the various ways in which external trends will impact upon the security management profession. What technologies, though, will underpin the ever-changing role of the in-house operative?
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Rules of Engagement
In any industrial sector, it matters not a jot how clever your policy, British Standard or Code of Practice if the messages subsumed within are not disseminated – and disseminated well – to the industry's great and good.
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The end of volunteering?
As a housing association resident who is also on its board as a resident representative, I write to express disquiet about proposed payment to board members. Is this not the thin end of the wedge? Will not all board members everywhere then start wanting remuneration for services which have ...
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Planners slam 'weak' draft London plan
housing strategy in the Draft London plan is weak on joined-up thinking for the capital and the South-east, the influential Town & Country Planning Association said on Monday.
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Archive TitlesA digital enigma
Not a single month passes by without yet another article looking at digital CCTV appearing in one of the security industry's trade journals. However, very few of those articles actually discuss the merits of digital over analogue in layman's terms. They rely on jargon, misinformation and hype weighted in favour ...
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Archive TitlesSignature-based intrusion detection: practise and pitfalls
Although the argument suggests that some protection for your IT networks is better than none, signature-based intrusion detection systems really only scratch the surface of what most blue chip organisations need to protect themselves against. Arnt Brox examines why anomaly-based testing is a better bet for corporate network safety.
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Refugees deserve more
Refugees who have received a positive decision from the Home Office confirming their right to remain in the UK are entitled to benefits and access to housing. Liverpool City Council and its partners, including many housing associations, should be applauded for their initiative to provide housing and support packages to ...
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ODPM's Supporting People funding decisions meet fierce opposition
The Supporting People Advisory Network is writing to the government to challenge funding decisions for the new care services funding regime.
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Archive TitlesDean: sector must strive for diversity in top jobs
Housing Corporation chair Baroness Brenda Dean has slammed the sector's equal opportunities record in recruitment for senior jobs.
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Tyco PA systems go loud in the Dartford Tunnel
Tyco's PA system in the Dartford Tunnel ensures clear messaging for drivers via bespoke speakers and fibre optic comms networks
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Archive TitlesPower to the Corporates?
Corporate security personnel generally have the same responsibilities and functions as the police, and yet have no more power than any other citizen. Should they have greater powers of detention and search? If so, how might such powers be justified? Simon Houghton – runner-up in the ASIS Ted ...