As an entrepreneur, you know that good security for your business critical assets is essential. But effective monitoring of your business processes is just as important as the security protecting those processes. However, managing and monitoring the security of your buildings, data, ICT environments, networks, applications and devices is a major challenge. How can you ensure that all those security solutions continue to do what they are supposed to do? How can you process all of the information that they generate? Read more
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Security
Tuesday June 7th, 2011How do I efficiently manage my ICT security?
Belgacom Flashlight: more control thanks to versatile reporting
Media reviews
Tuesday March 15th, 2011Data protection remains a major area of concern
The annual survey by CIO Magazine indicates that now, more than ever, ICT decision-makers are looking for effective security measures. Yet effective measures are not easy to find in a world in which your clients demand fast access to your services from the latest mobile gadgets. Meanwhile, the ever deeper integration of business partners with your own back office systems brings with it the risk that your company may become infected or be hacked if they don’t do their homework properly. Nearly all ICT managers also have serious questions about the guarantees for data security when servers are shifted to the cloud. Often, they would prefer to spend these budgets on security services from certifi ed partners, but then within the walls of their own company.
Source: ‘Reset’ CIO, October 2010
Security
Wednesday January 26th, 2011How to prevent data loss?
Monitoring communication flows = protecting information
An unreliable connection, a hacked server or a PC rendered useless by a virus are every company’s nightmare. That’s why more and more companies are investing in security technology such as firewalls, antivirus software and intrusion detection-systems. But what about the data itself? The data circulating within your network and systems is often insufficiently protected. Read more
News
Tuesday December 7th, 2010Guerilla war on the Internet
What is happening now never happened before. A hunter being hunted. Wikileaks wants to publish information, but is being chased and attacked via the internet to avoid them to leak the information. Surprisingly enough : the press knows how to find the guy, whereas as the “defending victims” don’t.
Healthcare home
Monday October 25th, 2010Health network
ICT in the service of healthcare
ICT can play a key role in a hospital setting. It can lead to numerous improvements at all levels: improvement of care, of the quality of life for the staff and patients, administrative tasks, archiving, etc. The efficiency and reliability of the solutions remain crucial, not to mention security. Belgacom offers a range of solutions to ensure the confidentiality of medical data and the continuity of care and services.
Cases in Healthcare
Thursday October 21st, 2010Security as a managed service
Belgacom monitors and manages network for Emmaüs
Belgacom protects network for Emmaüs The firewall that controls the network access for Emmaüs is located at a Belgacom datacenter. The healthcare group purchases the security as a managed service. Thanks to this approach, Emmaüs – with hospitals and care facilities at over 20 locations, chiefly in the province of Antwerp – always has access to the most up-to-date solution, without having to invest in additional internal expertise. The managed service delivers improved performance of the IT-environment for the employees thanks to secure Internet access on-site and secure VPN-access remotely. The firewall also regulates the Internet access for patients, separated from the network traffic for the internal staff. Read more
Column
Wednesday October 13th, 2010The 129 digit codeword
by Erik Dejonghe
In 1977 Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, three encryption specialists, made a bold statement. 11,438,162,575,788,886,766,923,577, 997,614,661,201,021,829,672,124,236,256,256,184,293,570,693,524, 57,338,978,305,971,23,563,95,705,058,989,075,147,599,290,026, 879,543,541, they said, is not a prime number but the product of two very large primes. Finding those two prime numbers would take the existing computer networks at least 40,000,000,000,000,000 years.
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