As the Department of Veterans Affairs moves forward with plans to allow physicians and others to use Apple's iPads and iPhones, its CIO has scrapped his laptop for a tablet.
A new, free guide on Facebook security, though geared for users, details the practices chief information security officers and other organizational security practitioners should share with their staffs to assure not only safe Internet hygiene when workers access Facebook from work, but for use with other social media...
Bob Russo says the long-awaited PCI guidance on tokenization should provide merchants with a baseline for standardization and best practices, and serve as a roadmap for how tokenization can complement compliance with the PCI-DSS.
Do patients really want to know the identity of every doctor, nurse, technician, intern, specialist, admin and consulting physician who ever viewed their records?
A consumer advocacy group is calling attention to a little-known fact about seven federal breach notification bills pending in Congress: They would leave certain healthcare information unprotected.
"The timing and the targets point to China," says cybersecurity policy expert James Lewis. "Spying right before the Beijing Olympics and focusing on Southeast Asia reflects China's larger interests more than those of any other country."
Associations representing clinic administrators, healthcare CIOs and health information managers are asking federal regulators to go back to the drawing board on the access report provision of a proposed Accounting of Disclosures rule.
With such high demand for security professionals, employers must be wary of the prospects they consider. People are known to inflate their resumes and claim knowledge they don't have.
Social media, mobility and cloud computing are new areas of risk for organizations, and risk managers need to go back to the fundamentals of understanding the information they are protecting, says Robert Stroud, ISACA's international vice president.
New mobile technology is behind a growing public concern about Internet security, says former Transportation Security Administration CISO Patricia Titus, who now holds the same post at Unisys.
We all know, as a result of recent breaches, Sony is in the market for a security leader. I reached out to some hiring managers and asked them: What would you look for in Sony's first CISO?
Four of the five people who entered guilty pleas in connection with an identity theft case at a Florida hospital and a physician's office have received prison sentences.
Facebook's facial recognition feature clearly impacts the privacy profession and workplace by creating new challenges and raising significant concerns on the issue of trust.
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