Government Expert Backs Open Source
News An expert at the British government's computer security headquarters, CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) has endorsed Linux along with the open source model for software development as the most secure computer architecture available.
[December 22, 1999, 6:00]
Key Services At Risk From Hackers
News The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) -- a group within GCHQ responsible for safeguarding official IT and communications -- conducted tests on the utilities' networks and warned that the risks from hackers can only get worse.
[February 23, 1999, 16:14]
BT Launches Secure, Hosted IP Telephony
News BT Hosted Voice is based on Nortel's Communication Server 2000 IP telephony switch and is certified by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), the information assurance arm of GCHQ, for the transmission of "restricted" voice traffic.
[September 25, 2007, 16:03]
Airports Face Growing Mountain Of Unclaimed Laptops
Talkback My company is an asset recovery specialist which uses only CESG approved software for data erasure. Has anyone out there considered the potential for even further security breeches if these laptops are falling into the wrong hands.
[September 4, 2006, 15:06]
Guardisk Holds Key To Government Laptops
News Guardisk has been approved by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) for "Restricted" and in some cases "Top Secret" data and has already been introduced in some government departments, where laptops containing sensitive information...
[April 30, 2003, 9:22]
UK Company Offers Crypto Email For Win2K
News This is the standard for British government departments such as the CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group). London-based data security company Reflex has developed the first commercial encryption email application fully compliant with...
[January 7, 2000, 12:06]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News The ban does not affect RIM's BlackBerry enterprise version (4.0 and above), which has been certified by CESG as secure enough to carry "restricted"-level documents — the only PDA device that has been — and so can still be used by civil servants...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
PoizonBOx Hackers Leave E-envoy Red-faced
News The spokeswoman said that when launched, the site complied with security standards established by CESG (Communications Electronics Security Group) -- the government's centre for computer security. The government has launched an investigation after...
[March 21, 2001, 10:50]
Surprised Or Expected Of Our Government?
Talkback Please see CESG Good Practise Guild 5 paragraph 30-32. In my honest opinion i am shocked that another government organisation has not chosen a fully functional encryption package. McAfee bought Safeboot to get their fingers in another pie and they...
[April 3, 2008, 12:08]
UK Army To Buy Subs, Tanks And Jets Online
News This is the reason CESG [Communications-Electronics Security Group] was very much involved in rating the risk. The British army will soon be ordering the latest military technology at the click of a mouse thanks to a deal announced Friday.
[July 24, 2000, 12:16]
Small Firms Get Free BlackBerry Taster
News BlackBerry devices were recently accredited by UK government technical security adviser CESG, meaning they can be used for handling restricted information. RIM, the maker of BlackBerry handhelds, is giving new small business users the chance to...
[May 4, 2006, 14:55]
Foreign Powers Are 'main Cyberthreat' To UK
News The UK government should be applauded for developing a more proactive approach to this issue, according to the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG). Where the squaddies are tomorrow needs to be kept secret; you can't put a price on...
[November 22, 2005, 17:40]
News Burst: Key Services At Risk From Hackers
News The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) -- a group within GCHQ responsible for safeguarding official IT and Communications -- conducted tests on the utilities' networks and warned that the risks from hackers can only get worse.
[February 23, 1999, 13:59]
Wi-Fi-proof Sheet Gets Government Approval
News CESG (the Communications-Electronics Security Group), the information assurance arm of GCHQ, has backed the product, but the intelligence community is keeping an eye on who buys it. Wireless hackers could soon face problems when trying to steal...
[April 26, 2005, 16:45]
UK Government To Improve Computer Security
News CHECK is carried out cooperatively between the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) and the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA). The British government is to shore up the defences of its computer network against hackers and virus...
[November 19, 1999, 12:34]
Charity Defends PC Recycling After Data Theft Claims
News But Roberts claimed Computer Aid is the only UK charity that uses software from data-erasure specialist Blancco, which meets government and military Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) standards.
[August 22, 2006, 16:00]
NHS Computer Network Faces Privacy Danger
News CESG (the Communications Electronic Security Group, the governmental encryption headquarters) is providing the Red Pike algorithm and has promised that it won't use its knowledge of it, but that doesn't stop the police or MI6.
[November 26, 1999, 17:02]
A Year Ago: NHS Computer Network Faces Privacy Danger
News CESG (the Communications Electronic Security Group, the governmental encryption headquarters) is providing the Red Pike algorithm and has promised that it won't use its knowledge of it, but that doesn't stop the police or MI6.
[November 27, 2000, 6:03]
Red Hat Linux Nears Security Clearance
News The Common Criteria, an international standard administered in the UK by a GCHQ division called the Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), grades products based not only on their security and reliability, but also on the development and...
[December 3, 2003, 13:10]
RIM And Airwave Vie To Cut Police Paperwork
News Like Airwave, RIM is accredited by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG, the information assurance arm of GCHQ), and an IT admin can also send a "kill" packet to a device. While Paris admitted there are privacy and civil liberties...
[February 20, 2008, 10:27]
