QCC Information Security today launched a totally revamped website, giving casual visitors and long term clients alike a focussed resource aimed at providing both at-a-glance descriptions of our services and useful information about all the aspects of information security we are involved in.

The new look combined with ultra fast and ultra reliable hosting mean that finding information about the company, downloading useful forensic tools or gaining access to the Blackthorn support portal become much easier for all concerned.

John Douglas, QCC Technical Director commented: “This new website combines simple navigation with an ease of maintenance, allowing us to provide more information in a timely manner to better support all of our clients, both existing and those who are considering us for the first time.”

Clever use of coded authentication means an end to cumbersome ‘captcha’ windows when sending requests or downloading software. All part of the commitment to customers that QCC is renowned for.

The last release of Blackthorn version 4 (v4.4) was released in early December 09’ as a precursor to the version 5 beta due at end Jan 2010.

If you would like to experience some of the functionality offered in version 5 then feel free to apply either the last version 4 (without v5 UI) or apply for the Blackthorn version 5 beta.

Version 5 proper is due for release at the end of February 2010.

QCC have opened a new Digital Forensics lab in the Shrivenham Hundred business park to be ideally placed for analysis and research right on the M4 corridor. The new office location (actually closer to Watchfield than Shrivenham) is just across the road from the Defence Academy and easily accessible from the M4, Swindon, Cheltenham and Gloucester.

Neil Hare-Brown, QCC CEO said “We are proud to have acquired new offices at this lovely location. As with our London offices, we have custom fitted our Shrivenham labs for purpose and accordingly high security measures”.

Operational work begins at Shrivenham early in 2010.

QCC has launched a new operation in Mauritius as part of its expansion into the EMEA region. Our new offices located in the Newton Tower of the capital, Port Louis are fitted with brand new Digital Forensics labs and provision for local advisory services provided by our Security & Risk Management consultants who are Mauritian nationals.

General Manager, Mr. Sharvind Appiah said, “QCC are the first native information security company in Mauritius and our expertise in digital forensics, incident response and a range of other important areas of security place us as leaders in both Mauritius and the COMESA region.”

Neil Hare-Brown, CEO said, “Launching our operations in Mauritius is an important step to the provision of our exemplary range of services both locally and in East and South Africa. Mauritius is a cultural and business gateway not only to these regions but also historically with India, China and the UK and France. Our offices are ideally placed to take advantage of this strategically important part of the world.”

The official opening will take place in Feb 2010.

QCC have successfully competed the accreditation of leading payment specialists, Anderson Zaks.

Darren Hepburn, Senior Consultant in the QCC SRM team said, “We were honoured to work with Anderson Zaks team to help them achieve accreditation under PCI DSS, they were a great client to work for both in technical knowledge and appreciation of security best practice.”

Anderson Zaks are a Managed Service Provider offering integrated payment processing services to many thousands of merchants via their RedCard software.

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QCC have moved into offices in Holborn as part of our continued expansion in all business areas.

A brand new, state-of-the-art Digital Forensics lab has been built from the ground up with a significant capability to support large-scale case loads in both criminal and civil investigations.

Our CEO, Neil Hare-Brown said “We are very excited to be expanding into these new custom designed premises. It gives us the continued ability to grow in line with our client demands and we are looking forward to further development later this year and in the next decade”.

QCCs offices at Hind Court, Fleet Street, London will now be re-developed into a training suite for a range of bespoke training courses.

QCC Information Security are proud to announce our certification by BSi to the ISO/IEC 27001 standard for Information Security Management.

Neil Hare-Brown, CEO said "As advisors to our clients on all security matters we use ISO/IEC 27001 as a benchmark and common reference. It was imperative that as a leading security company, we do what we preach and achieve certification ourselves".

Our certificate can be viewed here.

QCC's Blackthorn incident, assessment & risk management suite has been awarded the European Final runner up in the Global Security Challenge 2008.

The judges were impressed with the quality and creativity the Blackthorn solution and awarded the competition runner up award at the judging ceremony in Brussels on 24th September 2008.

Our CEO, Neil Hare-Brown, was honoured to learn than Blackthorn had been chosen as the only holistic security management product from an entry of over 150 solutions.

QCC have achieved accredited status by the PCI Standards Council to provide services as PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessors (QSA).

We are now able to perform PCI DSS audits and we support these services with our in-depth knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001.

New double sided information sheets have been published for Blackthorn. An overview of the system, coupled with information about the five modules, Alerting & Surveys, Tactical Incident Manager, Secure Assessment Manager, Risk, Impact and Threat Assessor and the Z-Crypto module.

The infosheets can be downloaded here.