# Two charities appoint risk management company to protect data

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/10/21/two-charities-appoint-risk-management-company-protect-data/
- Published: 2007-10-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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.”

 

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