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| CRYPTOCard Wins Security Contract with UK's Mental Health Trust CRYPTOCard has announced that it has been awarded a security contract by the UK's largest mental health trust to roll out 400 of its KT-1 key chain two-factor authentication tokens to staff working around London. South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, which provides mental health and substance misuse services for people in South London, as well as specialist mental health services nationally, bought the tokens to ensure patient data is only accessed by qualified people. Laws such as the Mental Health Act and the Data Protection Act mean that the trust, which employs 4.500 people, has to demonstrate strict standards of privacy and a high level of IT security to the government. The KT-1 key chain tokens work by giving staff passwords, which expire after just one use, making them redundant to potential hackers. This means the organisation has a stronger level of authentication and staff no longer relies on 'static' passwords, which can be easily defeated. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |