HMRC re-trains 85,000 staff in IT security following huge 2007 leak
Managers at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have launched an extensive retraining exercise for 85,000 employees, in a bid to avoid a future data security disaster.
Details of the retraining were this week detailed at the Human Factors in Information Security Conference in London (hfis.sparks.co.uk) by the man in charge of all security and business continuity issues at HMRC, Jeff Brooker.
The initial phase of the programme put security at the heart of HMRC's business strategy and in the performance objectives of every employee, he said, adding that HMRC's data security policy is based on “12 golden rules,” which include improving security consciousness and better behaviour around data handling, a data security rule book, data security workshops, and a dedicated security zone on the UK Taxman's intranet.
HMRC processes all of the income tax, National Insurance contributions, Value Added Tax and Corporation Tax due to the state – a figure of around £607bn in 2008.
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Source: Public Technology