Recent News
The Golden Thread – how Safe4 can handle this04/03/2025 - 8:53 am- Comprehensive user interface upgrade for Safe418/02/2025 - 2:06 pm
- 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
Cyber crime is still soaring – and insecure email remains the weakest link
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityThe scourge of email scams and phishing continues to rise relentlessly. Whilst some organisations have taken steps to protect themselves, many still use email to transfer confidential information to recipients both within and beyond their own domain. A recently-published article highlights this, and the risks to corporate governance that are involved. Professional practitioners are among […]
Safe4 has been registered as a G-Cloud supplier
/in Blog, News, News - AllA new round of updates to the UK Government’s G-Cloud Digital Marketplace has been announced today, and Safe4 Information Management has been successfully registered as a G-Cloud supplier. This will allow public sector organisations in the UK to purchase Safe4 through G-Cloud without having to go through the OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) […]
Environmental Sustainability policy updates from Safe4
/in Blog, News, News - AllMore good news for Safe4 customers – outstanding availability record
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecuritySafe4 has achieved outstanding availability in the last 7 months. Since 1 October 2017 the highly secure information delivery and storage service has achieved 100% uptime, with not a single second lost through system outages of any kind. This represents a stark contrast with other cloud-based information management services, many of which report outages almost […]
Safe4 releases version 5.10 to address GDPR compliance requirements
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityThe General Data Protection Regulation becomes law across the EU on 25 May this year, and in order to assist our customers to ensure that they are compliant with the regulation we have introduced some system changes to the core Safe4 service. These changes are in fact part of a work-in-progress, since there are still […]
Insecure email communication still causing huge losses through fraud
/in Blog, News, News - All, News - Property, SecurityRecent news has highlighted once again the risks caused by using insecure email communication to transfer confidential information, as this article shows. The effect of online theft is clearly devastating for those that have had their money stolen – in many cases these losses represent life savings and cannot be recovered. Criminals posing as conveyancing solicitors, or […]
Charities are exposed to serious risk when documents are lost
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityProper management of sensitive records can be challenging, but when the documents in question relate to vulnerable individuals who are receiving care from charities or local authorities, the consequences of information falling into the wrong hands can be very damaging. Recent cases of paper documents being lost highlight this risk. The impending arrival of GDPR […]
Version 5.04 of Safe4 is released
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecuritySafe4 have released version 5.04 of the secure information delivery and storage service. This release includes a significant number of internal enhancements, and will assist with the administration and management of the service. Users will notice changes in the way that reports and messages are handled and displayed, with more flexible options for listing and […]
Virus checker issues led to intermittent upload failures for Safe4
/in Blog, News, News - AllAt around 9:30 GMT on Friday 26 January 2018 the Safe4 system began to experience intermittent failures when uploading files. This was displayed to users as a “rejected” message in the web user interface or an error message if using the Safe4 API. Investigation showed that the issue was caused by an intermittent failure of the virus scanner […]
Slow progress for GDPR across Europe
/in Blog, News, News - All, SecurityMost EU member states are not making much progress towards preparing their own legislative position for the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May this year, according to an article published today. As many UK businesses are aware, the Information Commissioner’s Office has been issuing guidance and warnings on GDPR for […]