Learn how the partial government shutdown is hampering a wide variety of important Department of Health and Human Services programs, ranging from patient privacy protection to disease outbreak detection.
Federal authorities are warning banking institutions and government agencies about a wave of DDoS attacks that could strike on 9/11. Learn what steps the FBI suggests should be taken to mitigate the threat.
Until the interoperability of EHRs can be achieved, the Direct Project can help ensure the secure transfer of patient information during a disaster, says Tia Tinney, who's heading a collaborative effort.
Because state HIEs vary in connectivity and interoperability levels, secure e-mail based on the Direct Project offers a dependable way of sharing patient data during a disaster, says Tia Tinney of the Southeast Region Collaborative for HIT.
You know VMware as the virtualization company that has been the market leader for the past 11 years. In fact, according to Gartner, more than 80% of all virtualized applications in the world run on VMware today. This ebook highlights the VMware perspective on disaster recovery in the data center.
On average, 86 percent of web applications have at least one serious vulnerability, and each app is attacked about 4,000 times per year, says Imperva's Terry Ray. So, how must security be improved?
After a tornado destroyed an Oklahoma hospital, clinicians were still able to access patients' data. Find out the roles electronic health records and health information exchange played.
Congress is highly unlikely to enact new laws to require industry to adhere to cybersecurity regulations. But that hasn't stopped a fierce debate among lawmakers and security experts on the value of such rules.
Hacktivists' OpUSA distributed-denial-of-service attack against U.S. government and banking websites proved to be unsuccessful, experts say. But why was this attack a failure?
If the hacking community judges the planned OpUSA cyber-attack a success, it could spur more nefarious actors to try more vicious disruptions of U.S. websites, a Department of Homeland Security alert says.
In assessing the risk of a distributed-denial-of service attack, organizations must think beyond shoring up systems' perimeters and concentrate on analyzing cyberthreat intelligence, Booz Allen Hamilton's Sedar Labarre says.
Anonymous says its OpUSA attack planned for May 7 aims to 'wipe' government and banking websites from the Internet. Security experts say the threat is real, but are U.S. organizations taking it seriously?
Hacktivists' phase 3 DDoS attacks against U.S. financial services firms have entered their eighth week, and FS-ISAC spokesman Greg Garcia says concerns are mounting that a criminal element to the attacks could emerge.
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, local hospital CIOs John Halamka and Jim Noga share some of the lessons learned about business continuity planning.
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks jumped significantly in 2012. And it's not just banking institutions that are victims, Verizon finds in its just-released Data Breach Investigations Report.
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