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Aidan Finn, the Systems and Infrastructure Manager with C Infinity renewed his MVP status with Microsoft today.  Microsoft awards Most Valuable Professional status to those who “are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others”.

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You’ve probably already heard the news from yesterday evening about the theft of four laptops from the offices of Bord Gáis in Dublin. If not, a burglary took place on Friday 5th June at Bord Gáis offices in Dublin where the laptops had been stolen.  It has been confirmed that account numbers and personal details of 75,000 customers had been held on the laptops.

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I’ve just been reading in the news about 15 laptops that had been stolen from the HSE. The robbery occurred over the weekend at the Roscommon Primary Community and Continuing Care Department of the HSE.

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At the end of last month a break-in at Royston House in Belfast, the Department of Finance and Personnel, resulted in 13 laptops being stolen. Some of the laptops contained personal information including employee names, addresses, National Insurance Numbers, date of births and even bank account numbers.

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We are happy to announce that SortMyBooks have selected C Infinity as their trusted data backup provider.  As part of our partner program users of SortMyBooks can now receive professional support and expert advice as part of our secure online backup service.

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We have launched our new managed monitoring services that can help make you aware of every performance and fault issue in your IT infrastructure.

As a service provider we know how important it is to monitor every critical service within an infrastructure. It’s important to achieve the best possible uptime & availability not only for customers but also for employees who rely on internal IT systems.
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Our infrastructure Manager, Aidan Finn, will be attending Bizcamp Limerick tomorrow to speak to attendees on choosing the right on-line computing services for a start-up business.

If you are interested in hearing Aidan’s talk on computing for start-up businesses please visit room KBG16 from 10am until 11am. Aidan will be available afterwards to answer any question you may have on what options are available as a new business start-up.

Medical records belonging to over 8,000 patients of a doctors surgery in Magherafelt, Co Derry, have gone missing. The incident occurred when the surgery sent a tape cartridge containing medical data to an IT firm based in London using a courier company. The cartridge tape was collected in December by the courier but it was reported that it failed to arrive. You can read more about the incident here and here.

When I regularly speak with GP’s about medical data on their computer systems they all share the same concern, losing the data to an outside source. The doctors surgery in Magherafelt most likely shared that concern and had taken precaution by ensuring the data tape had some sort of security protection. A GP from the surgery is quoted saying:

“The computer tape is security protected and requires a specialist programme which is normally only used by GPs and the data verification company in order to make any sense of the information on the tape“.

This sounds as if the medical data was encrypted but there again data encryption was not mentioned in any news articles which could be worrying for some.

If you are a GP or work in a doctors surgery does your practice have adequate data protection for medical records?

If you are Mac user then you are probably well aware of the Macworld exhibition that just recently passed. A lot of companies were in attendance announcing all sorts of new product releases for Mac users, including our partner Iron Mountain Digital.

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C Infinity – Ireland’s top secure online backup and hosted managed services provider are pleased to announce that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI) have chosen C Infinity online backup for their Affinity Program. All ICAI members will get a 20% Discount on their online backup.
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