Highlights at the recent HIMSS Conference included revelations about plans for resuming HIPAA compliance audits and groundbreaking discussions about medical device security issues.
Leading today's RSA Conference 2014 industry news roundup, Thycotic announces RSA survey results, while Freescale Semiconductor announces support for software.
Cisco has launched a new open source initiative focused on application identification, says Scott Harrell, vice president of the company's security business group.
Two recent healthcare cases show that the Federal Trade Commission will not hesitate to take action against organizations that fail to protect patient data.
To avoid the risk of staff using social media to communicate about patients, healthcare organizations need to offer more secure alternatives, says security and privacy expert Andrew Hicks.
Technology is the biggest challenge to ethics and compliance in organizations today, says Deloitte's Keith Darcy. "We have the capacity to do things before we ever consider the ethical consequences ..."
Whether reports that the National Security Agency entered into a secret contract with security provider RSA are true or not - and RSA says they're not - the reputations of all American security vendors have been tarnished.
Hackers have pilfered some 2 million user passwords and credentials for Facebook and other social media and Internet sites, according to IT security provider Trustwave. The hackers attacked computers in about 100 nations.
Twitter's announcement that it's adding "forward secrecy" encryption to its sites should serve as a reminder that organizations need to continually assess the risks to their organization, experts say.
Figuring out how Edward Snowden breached NSA computers is sort of like solving a puzzle. Take public information and match it with an understanding of how organizations get hacked, and the pieces seem to fall into place.
Information Security Media Group is offering a growing list of fraud-fighting educational opportunities, including videos of presentations at its recent Fraud Summit plus a series of 2014 summits.
Senior leaders in business and government are buying in to the need for more cybersecurity investments as well as threat-intelligence sharing, new research shows. But why are they still struggling to hire the right security pros?
Reliable statistics to track trends in cybersecurity employment are scarce. But the available numbers offer some insights, including the relative strength of the IT security workforce.
Sharing information about cyber-attacks is making a difference in the banking sector, helping bring criminals to justice and curbing fraud losses. Other sectors should learn from banking's example.
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