NHS Dumfries & Galloway, one of the largest public health service providers in Scotland, UK, has selected SanDisk’s Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives and CMC server software, to secure confidential patient information at both the company headquarters and in 50 field offices across Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland.

It has deployed over 1,100 Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives with SanDisk CMC server software to protect transfers of otherwise unencrypted, personally identifiable information in electronic format.

With data loss and theft on the rise in government agencies in the UK, in 2008 NHS Dumfries & Galloway started an initiative to implement stringent policies for safely storing patient data on PCs, laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices, to proactively manage potential security problems before they happened.

It tested and benchmarked several solutions before selecting Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives and CMC server software.

We’re currently working with several other healthcare organisations in the UK on similar projects – watch this space for further announcements.

For more information, see the following:

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