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By Mary Mosquera
Last year’s HITECH Act toughened the rules and enforcement penalties health information handlers must follow to protect patient privacy.
Under the new policy regime, providers will have to pay more attention to the confidentiality and safety of patient information as they move more of their operations toward electronic health record-keeping.
Without [...]
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By Tom Murphy
INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint Inc. has notified 470,000 individual insurance customers that medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed in the latest security breach of the health insurer’s records.
The Indianapolis company said the problem stemmed from an online program customers can use to track the progress [...]
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By Greg Masters
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a defense bill that contains an amendment aimed at regulating the information security responsibilities and practices of federal agencies.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., updates the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and establishes a National Office [...]
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by Larry Karisny
While following the Connectivity Show in Santa Clara California, I thought I should follow-up on the at Greentech Media’s annual Smart Grid conference in Palm Springs last week. I wanted to focus this article on Smart Grid security so I thought I should find some clear explanation of where we are [...]
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By: Brian Prince
Businesses have increased expectations on the security team in recent years, sometimes producing a disconnect between what is expected and what the security team can deliver. In a new report, Forrester Research lays out some advice for building an effective security organization.
As IT security has become a bigger part of business [...]
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The Health & Human Services Department published draft guidance to help healthcare providers and payers figure out what is expected of them in doing a risk analysis of their protected patient health information.
The security rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that providers, payment plans and their [...]
by Ashlee Vance, NYTimes
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.”
Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.”
Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google’s e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug.
According to a [...]
What is Cloud Computing and does it provide more protection to your business?
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Cloud Computing will bring many benefits to organisations, some of which include reducing operating costs, reducing power consumption and freeing you up to focus on your core business.
The concept of shifting computing to a shared service provider [...]
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Malware: Fighting Malicious Code
By FBI NPO
The FBI warned consumers today about an ongoing threat involving pop-up security messages that appear while they are on the Internet. The messages may contain a virus that could harm your computer, cause costly repairs or, even worse, lead to identity theft. The messages contain [...]
Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
The long awaited international standard on Information Security Measurement, ISO/IEC27004:2009, is now available.
It’s a must have –
Buy the hard copy here
or the download here
Key Features and Benefits:
• Provides guidance on the development, implementation use of metrics to measure the effectiveness of an ISO 27001-compliant ISMS, controls or groups of [...]
