Two charities appoint risk management company to protect data
Howard Lake | 21 October 2007 | News
Operational risk management services provider Security Risk Management Ltd (SRM) is working with Marie Curie Cancer Care and Sue Ryder Care to help protect their confidential data.
At Sue Ryder Care, although a lot of attention is given to protecting information, the charity appointed SRM to help it find a way of embracing advances in technology in a secure way. For example, the charity wants to improve access to operational systems for volunteers, so that they can access important information from their home PCs from the charity’s growing extranet.
At Marie Curie Cancer Care, its community nurses have access to a wealth of confidential patient information, which is subject to strict controls by the NHS. As such, certain conditions must be met if the charity is to continue to connect to N3, the new broadband communications network for the NHS. SRM is helping Marie Curie to move towards meeting these requirements. It is essential to achieve this for legal reasons but also because the NHS funds around 30% of the charity’s income.
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SRM recently provided Marie Curie with an independent assessment of third-part security products and systems to assist it protect its data, including its website.
“We aren’t able to have a big security team working full time to keep our information safe, but we wanted to know what options we had in terms of protecting our data,” said Jen Penfound, Head of IT, Marie Curie Cancer Care. “SRM conducted an independent security review of our systems, and then gave us recommendations. With more and more risks to consider all the time, it has been very useful to have SRM onboard from the start, so that we have real experts on hand to help us tackle any security issues we might face.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.