Following the recent theft of a physician's unencrypted personal laptop, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is stepping up efforts to make sure that its encryption mandate is actually followed.
When it comes to breach planning and response, well-intentioned organizations often go wrong. Experian Data Breach Resolution VP Michael Bruemmer tells where they fail and offers advice on how to do these important jobs right.
A new application for Apple mobile devices is designed to help healthcare organizations assess whether an incident is a breach that must be reported to federal authorities. Find out how it works.
RSA CISO Eddie Schwartz says he spends more time talking to other chief information security officers and IT security practitioners today than he did a decade ago, when he held the same job at Nationwide Insurance Co.
Medical identification theft is on the rise. Will healthcare reform, as recently affirmed by the Supreme Court, help reverse that trend? Here's why it's difficult to predict the impact of reform.
Too many organizations that experience a data breach
fail to reveal information on the cause of the incident so that consumers can take appropriate action, one consumer advocacy group contends.
A successful organization in today's business world has most likely cultivated a "brand." Have you ever thought about creating your own brand to enhance your career?
Now that Tennessee is pulling the plug on its statewide health information exchange, it's a good time to reassess the many challenges that HIEs face - including the need to ensure patients that their information will be protected.
"The reality is that, if you look across IT, IT people are very good at so many things; they're much better at it in a lot of cases than security people are," RSA CISO Eddie Schwartz says.
St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust in London has been fined £60,000 by the UK Information Commissioner's Office after an individual's medical information was sent to the wrong address.
Eight class action lawsuits filed in the wake of a 2011 data breach involving TRICARE, the military health program, and affecting nearly 5 million individuals have been consolidated into one case that will be handled by the U.S District Court in Washington, D.C.
A new guide has been released by the Information Commissioner's Office to help small and mid-sized businesses improve their IT security. Which threats should most concern them, and how can they use the guide?
Information security isn't just the domain of those branded information security professionals but also requires the knowledge of nearly every other IT occupation as well as individuals in many non-technology jobs, too.
British Columbia Institute of Technology has notified students, faculty and staff that a computer server containing personal medical information of 12,680 individuals was accessed by an unauthorized party.
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