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How one NHS trust encrypted its data

Do businesses and the rest of the public sector have anything to learn from NHS requirements that all hospitals encrypt their data?

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 10 Jul 2009 at 14:27

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If the user cancelled, then they could take data off the data stick but couldn’t save anything to it. If they chose to encrypt, it backed the data up and encrypted the stick, which allowed them to put data back on.

Bliss said: “We would be able to have USB sticks worth under £10 and use it as an encrypted stick. People were able to use their existing data sticks to encrypt.”

The benefit included the protection of data on CDS and DVDS. No data was allowed to be burned without encryption.

Bliss said that the encryption solution, for 10,500 employees and 7,000 PCs, was implemented in around eight weeks.

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