Becta basics for schools

Aug. 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Security resellers have been urged to fill the void left by the scrapping of education technology agency Becta by pressing home the importance of data security to schools.

Becta was one of the first casualties of the coalition government’s quest for efficiency savings.

Grahame Smee, managing director of distributor http://www.cohorttechnology.com , des­cri­bed Becta’s demise as bad news, but stressed it was incumbent on the channel to take up the slack.

“The responsibility doesn’t go away,” he said. “Every school, university, hospital or private enterprise still has obligations to secure any assets they have.

“The channel needs to ensure people understand what the imp­lications are, if they don’t have a comprehensive security policy.”

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Cohort Technology Ltd actively select and promote new technologies to vendors and customers throughout Europe. Cohort's IT solutions cover the security and IP Telephony fields offering products and services from vendors such as PGP, Stonesoft, SonicWALL, ForeScout and Shoretel. Cohort offers a number of "value-added" services such as consultation, installation and training.