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Bull launches corporate security software
Vol. 10, No. 12, Page
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administrations equipped with large centralized or distributed data production server systems. It is now in operation at certain sites in France and will be marketed worldwide by both Bull and Honeywell Bull Inc.
Robin Arnfield, Editor
ADMIRAL WINS SOFTWARE SAFETY EVALUATION CONTRACT Following the launch of its System Evaluation Centre (see last month’s issue), Admiral Management Services Ltd has been awarded a contract by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board to assist in assessing the software for the primary protection system of the Sizewell ‘B’ Nuclear Power Station. Admiral will assist the Sizewell ‘B’ Project Management Team by providing specialist assistance on critical parts of the system. Stuart Wild, Managing Director of Admiral Management Services, said, “This major contract underlines the need for the service provided by our System Evaluation Centre. We have been carrying out evaluations of high integrity systems for several years and we are especially pleased to win this prestigious contract.”
BULL LAUNCHES CORPORATE SECURITY SOFTWARE Groupe Bull has announced new software using the GCOS 7 operating system aimed at increasing corporate security. SECUR’ACCESS software works by means of a personal Bull CP8 microprocessor card inserted into the workstation to run on Bull DPS 7000 or Bull DPS 7 machines. Bull says that SECUR’ACCESS is especially capable of solving problems of security which arise in large corporations and
COMPUTER FRAUD & SECURITY BULLETIN
Security provided by SECUR’ACCESS can be further increased by adding other layers of logic security: PASSWORD’7 at the level of the GCOS 7 catalogue, LACS for communications networks, MICR’ACCESS and STAR’ACCESS for Bull Micra1 and Bull Questar 400 workstations, and TEMPUS-LINK for archiving MS-DOS disks. Philip Hill Paris France
USER FRIENDLY INSURANCE SMALL COMPUTERS
FOR
It is estimated that UK businesses will shortly be spending f 30 billion a year on a new computers with 2.5 million new computers being installed in 1990 alone. Responding to this, the UK Division of Commercial Union (CU) has introduced a new insurance package for small computers which is designed to simplify the process of arranging the cover. With office computers particularly in mind, and providing the actual value of individual computers does not exceed f 30 000 (total installations can go up to f 100 000) then a wide range of supplementary covers is put in place automatically. These include: -
f25 000 for increased working costs
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f 5000 for reinstatement
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f 10 000 extra costs of replacing original software if incompatible with replacement equipment
-
Consulting
-
f 2500 debris removal costs
Engineers’
of data
fees paid in full
0 1988 Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd., England. /SS/$O.OO + 2.20 No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. (Readers in the U.S.A. - please see special regulations listed on back cover.)
potential article contributors would telephone me on +44 (0)865-512242 before putting pen to paper.
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administrations equipped with large centralized or distributed data production server systems. It is now in operation at certain sites in France and will be marketed worldwide by both Bull and Honeywell Bull Inc.
Robin Arnfield, Editor
ADMIRAL WINS SOFTWARE SAFETY EVALUATION CONTRACT Following the launch of its System Evaluation Centre (see last month’s issue), Admiral Management Services Ltd has been awarded a contract by the UK Central Electricity Generating Board to assist in assessing the software for the primary protection system of the Sizewell ‘B’ Nuclear Power Station. Admiral will assist the Sizewell ‘B’ Project Management Team by providing specialist assistance on critical parts of the system. Stuart Wild, Managing Director of Admiral Management Services, said, “This major contract underlines the need for the service provided by our System Evaluation Centre. We have been carrying out evaluations of high integrity systems for several years and we are especially pleased to win this prestigious contract.”
BULL LAUNCHES CORPORATE SECURITY SOFTWARE Groupe Bull has announced new software using the GCOS 7 operating system aimed at increasing corporate security. SECUR’ACCESS software works by means of a personal Bull CP8 microprocessor card inserted into the workstation to run on Bull DPS 7000 or Bull DPS 7 machines. Bull says that SECUR’ACCESS is especially capable of solving problems of security which arise in large corporations and
COMPUTER FRAUD & SECURITY BULLETIN
Security provided by SECUR’ACCESS can be further increased by adding other layers of logic security: PASSWORD’7 at the level of the GCOS 7 catalogue, LACS for communications networks, MICR’ACCESS and STAR’ACCESS for Bull Micra1 and Bull Questar 400 workstations, and TEMPUS-LINK for archiving MS-DOS disks. Philip Hill Paris France
USER FRIENDLY INSURANCE SMALL COMPUTERS
FOR
It is estimated that UK businesses will shortly be spending f 30 billion a year on a new computers with 2.5 million new computers being installed in 1990 alone. Responding to this, the UK Division of Commercial Union (CU) has introduced a new insurance package for small computers which is designed to simplify the process of arranging the cover. With office computers particularly in mind, and providing the actual value of individual computers does not exceed f 30 000 (total installations can go up to f 100 000) then a wide range of supplementary covers is put in place automatically. These include: -
f25 000 for increased working costs
-
f 5000 for reinstatement
-
f 10 000 extra costs of replacing original software if incompatible with replacement equipment
-
Consulting
-
f 2500 debris removal costs
Engineers’
of data
fees paid in full
0 1988 Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd., England. /SS/$O.OO + 2.20 No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. (Readers in the U.S.A. - please see special regulations listed on back cover.)