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Major upgrade for Safe425/01/2024 - 4:34 pm- MI5 warns of massive intellectual property theft19/10/2023 - 12:17 pm
- Updated look and feel for Safe4 – new upload options02/08/2023 - 10:02 am
- Risk of using email for the transfer of confidential information21/07/2023 - 1:22 pm
- Enhanced User Experience for Safe405/07/2023 - 11:53 am
Major upgrade for Safe4
/in News - All, SecurityMI5 warns of massive intellectual property theft
/in News - All, SecurityAs featured on the BBC website on 18 October 2023, the head of MI5 in the United Kingdom has warned of the massive scale of intellectual property theft by Chinese agents approaching UK businesses. Ken McCallum, the Head of MI5, speaking at Stanford University in California at a meeting of the Five Eyes alliance, has […]
Updated look and feel for Safe4 – new upload options
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityAs part of an ongoing process of refreshing the user interface, there is now an updated look and feel for Safe4. This is most apparent on the files and folders page, which is the most commonly used part of the system. The screen has been redesigned to offer a clearer layout, with some of the […]
Risk of using email for the transfer of confidential information
/in Blog, News, News - All, News - Corporate, SecurityThe risk of using email for the transfer of confidential information has been highlighted yet again. In today’s edition of The Times, the penetration of an email system with criminal intent has led to the loss of confidential information. The Safe4 system has been designed specifically to avoid the use of email for the transfer […]
NCSC warns of cyber threats to UK law firms
/in Blog, News - All, SecurityThe United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) has warned again about the cyber threats to UK law firms. The renewed threat is largely being driven by legal practices adopting hybrid working patterns resulting from the pandemic, with staff increasingly spending more time working from home. More background is available in an article […]
Safe4 renews Cyber Essentials accreditation
/in News, News - All, SecuritySafe4 has renewed its Cyber Essentials accreditation through the IASME Consortium for the year ending August 2023. This forms an important component in the company’s internal governance and compliance programme, which also encompasses the Cyber Primed information security standard. The accreditation of Safe4 is now featured on the National Cyber Security Centre’s website. As well […]
Safe4 has passed 250,000 users
/in Blog, News, News - All, News - Corporate, News - Financial, News - Health, News - Professional, SecurityDuring April 2022 Safe4 has reached the quarter-of-a-million user mark. The fact that Safe4 has passed 250,000 users is significant in many ways – not least because it demonstrates the stability and reliability of the system. The principal benefit that Safe4 brings is, of course, security. Many of the users who have created accounts in […]
July 2021 – A record month for Safe4
/in Blog, News, News - All, News - Health, SecurityJuly 2021 saw a record number of vaults being created in Safe4 in a single month. During July, 19,468 new vaults were created, bringing the total in the system to well over 165,000. The rapid recent growth in the number if vaults is partly a result of Safe4 being used to handle highly personal health […]
Safe4 passes 100,000 users
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityUser numbers in Safe4 have been growing steadily over the years, and a significant milestone has been reached in April 2021. Safe4 now has more than 100,000 users, each of which is able to enjoy the benefits of highly secure cloud-based storage and management of confidential information. Initial usage of Safe4 was concentrated primarily in […]
Screen4 partners with Safe4 for Covid-19 Testing
/in Blog, News, News - AllScreen4, one of the UK’s leading providers of health screening services, has partnered with Safe4 and S4Encrypt to help to automate the processing of Covid-19 tests purchased from its website. As one of the world’s top drug and alcohol screening services for the travel sector, with operations in 140 locations across 40 countries, Screen4 was […]