Castleforce IT Consultancy Ltd are IT Security and Business Continuity specialists helping businesses choose the best products that meet the diverse requirements needed to protect against the current threat landscape and which satisfy the specific requirements of compliance guidelines and regulations.

Castleforce Product Spotlight

BlackShield ID is the new Authentication server from CRYPTOCard. It massively reduces the time needed to deploy and manage authentication.  It provides unrivalled choice using CRYPTOCard’s award-winning token range, which is strengthened with the introduction of new SMS, USB, smart card and software tokens.

BlackShield ID can be used to protect

• Web applications, such as online banking, B2B supply chain management and shrink-wrapped
  applications such as Remote Web Workplace, Outlook Web Access, and SharePoint
• Network access devices such as VPNs, both IPSec and SSL, firewalls and so forth
• Citrix, and similar platforms
• Domain log-on

Cryptocard Blackshield ID Datasheet

For more details on Blackshield ID

Castleforce Services

Security isn’t always about if things will happen, it’s about when it will happen, and preparing yourself for when it does. Our Castleforce Risk Assessment can help identify current vulnerabilities and make recommendations to mitigate identified threats.

We have recently partnered with to provide an innovative information security awareness content service.  We can supply security awareness materials for your staff, managers and IT professionals, covering a fresh security topic each month.

Information Security Awareness Briefing Pack for Software Developers

Many organisations seem to believe that IT professionals just know about information security, expecting them to design and implement technical security controls in the IT systems. But in reality, security is a specialist discipline poorly covered by IT courses, hence the skills are rare in practice. Add to that the fact that many spreadsheets and databases are developed by entirely untrained users on their desktops, and I’m sure you can appreciate the need for assistance.

The document above and similar material can be found in our IT Security Awareness page. 

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