Which Internet security threats pose the greatest risks to organizations in 2012 and beyond? Symantec has just released its Internet Security Threat Report, which reveals some surprising trends.
How can organizations ensure that their information security staff is mitigating the latest threats? And what truly defines an information security professional? Here are some of the key ingredients.
Voluntary national standards, including privacy and security guidelines, for health information exchanges are inching forward. Federal authorities soon will seek comments on plans for a Nationwide Health Information Network Governance Rule.
Federal authorities have charged 107 individuals, including some physicians and nurses, for their alleged participation in schemes involving $452 million in false Medicare billing.
New advisories from Visa suggest that payments processor Global Payments Inc. may have been breached in June 2011 - nine months earlier than initially reported.
Many organizations are expanding their application security teams as they accommodate the use of employee-owned devices in the workplace and build their own app stores.
The latest spin on the insider threat: malicious outsiders taking advantage of inadvertent insiders, says Dawn Cappelli of Carnegie Mellon University. Learn how to detect and prevent these attacks.
Susan McAndrew of the HHS Office for Civil Rights provides insights about an omnibus package of regulations - including a revised version of the HIPAA breach notification rule - that's now in the final stages of review.
The UK has announced the first fine against a National Health Service unit for a breach in violation of the Data Protection Act. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Wales was fined £70,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for sending sensitive patient information to the wrong person.
Accretive Health Inc., a Chicago-based medical debt collection agency, has filed a motion to dismiss the Minnesota attorney general's lawsuit against the company that stems, in part, from a data breach incident involving a stolen unencrypted laptop.
Payments processor First Data warns about an uptick in trolling - hackers sniffing networks for easy access to merchants' point-of-sale systems. What can banks do to help merchants prevent breaches?
New federal privacy and security guidance for health information exchanges
provides a good framework, but the recommendations will need to be phased in over time, says the director of a statewide HIE initiative in Indiana.
Symantec says Internet vulnerabilities are down, but don't get too comfortable. We can expect more attacks in 2012. Why are the same threats still posing so much concern?
If you handle critical data, you've got to be humble, advises Bob Carr, CEO of breached processor Heartland Payments System. "Anyone that thinks they're not going to be breached is being naïve."
Among the provisions of the Federal Information Security Amendments Act, approved by a voice vote, is a requirement that agencies implement continuous monitoring of their IT systems to identify vulnerabilities before a cyber incident occurs.
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