<p>"Regulatory compliance is not about getting a tick in a box," says Martin Sugden of data security experts Boldon James, "it's about protecting the public from information leakage and facilitating better working between stakeholders."</p><p>And in the case of Boldon James client South-West Fire & Rescue Service (FRS), better working can sometimes be the difference between life and death</p><p>Crewe, Cheshire, U.K.: When the five Fire and Rescue Services in the south west of England - Dorset, Avon, Cornwall, Devon & Somerset, and Wiltshire - came together in a 'Secure Information Interchange Programme' to improve information security and facilitate the sharing of information with their external partners to improve community safety, they concluded that policy and training was not enough - a system was vital to enforce protective marking of documents created!</p><p>"South West FRS holds personal information on vulnerable and high-risk people and we have to protect this information, as its loss or release to unauthorised personnel would affect credibility and trust with other services as well as with the public," commented Graham Saunders, South West FRS Programme Manager. "Although the training helped participants understand why they were being asked to handle information in certain ways, it didn't help them do it uniformly or enforce it for them."</p><p><a href="http://www.sourcewire.com/news/77771/public-sector-security-project-beats-barclaycard-and-kpmg-to-european">Keep reading...</a></p>