While the cause of the Epsilon e-mail breach has not been publicly disclosed, the incident's aftermath has seen a growing list of organizations impacted by the breach. It also has ignited a new debate about the sensitivity of e-mail addresses.
"It is the biggest breach we have ever seen; and to say no financial information has been stolen is, well, understating the massive breach and concern," says Neil Schwartzman, founder and chief security specialist at CASL Consulting.
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. is encouraging its business partners to use the HITRUST Common Security Framework to demonstrate their capabilities for keeping health information secure.
In terms of payments, privacy and third-party relationships, U.S. security leaders have much to learn from - and share with - their peers in the U.K. and elsewhere in the world.
Interview with Adrian Davis of the Information Security Forum
In terms of payments, privacy and third-party relationships, U.S. security leaders have much to learn from - and share with - their peers in the U.K. and elsewhere in the world.
This is the perspective of Adrian Davis, a senior research consultant...
Should software developers be held liable for their programming errors? A consortium of international cybersecurity experts says yes - and will present its plan for such a program on Tuesday. But at least one dissenting voice calls the effort "counterproductive and silly."
Hospitals and other healthcare organizations need to identify data security breaches "in a much more systematic way" to help ensure the privacy of personal information. That's the advice of Lisa Gallagher, senior director for privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems...
A well-known healthcare information security expert who's advising federal regulators on policy issues offers advice to organizations preparing to comply with the data breach notification requirements of the HITECH Act.
In an interview, Dixie Baker of SAIC advises hospitals and others to:
Study how the HITECH...
Tucked away in last year's federal economic stimulus package were billions of dollars in funding to help offset part of the cost for hospitals and physicians to adopt comprehensive electronic health records.
As the year drew to a close, federal regulators issued a proposed rule to define how hospitals and...
One of the nation's best-known healthcare data security experts who's advising federal regulators on policy issues offers advice to organizations preparing to comply with the data breach notification requirements of the HITECH Act.
In an interview, Dixie Baker of SAIC advises hospitals and others to:
Study how...
Public and private sector organizations alike are charged with protecting critical data and responding to incidents that put information security at risk. In this session, David Matthews, deputy CISO for the City of Seattle, reveals:
Data protection challenges;
Tools to meet those challenges;
How to respond to...
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