"A really secure cyber environment is as much about people and habits and culture as it is about machines," DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano tells RSA 2010 Conference attendees.
The Obama administration posts a declassified summary of the government's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a highly secret Bush-era program aimed at securing the nation's critical IT security assets.
From RSA 2010: Interview with Bob Russo, GM of the PCI Security Standards Council
How will the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) be amended, and when?
These are the key questions in payments security, and Bob Russo, GM of the PCI Security Standards Council, is prepared to start answering...
The Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey is far from scientific. But the results are nevertheless eye-opening. This year's results show that 23% of responding organizations have had some sort of a security breach in the past year. And that's a big number.
Accounting for who has viewed a patient's electronic health record "is the single most difficult security requirement to figure out" in the HITECH Act. That's the conclusion of Lisa Gallagher, senior director for privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
To prepare for a potential government audit of their HIPAA security rule compliance, hospitals should have a detailed information security plan and be able to prove they're carrying it out.
"We're trying to hire anyone with pulse and got some knowledge of technology component needed to build this," the head of the Cloud Security Alliance quotes cloud computing services providers.
Hospitals should use a team approach to creating breach detection and breach notification strategies. That's the advice of Gerry Hinkley, senior partner at the law firm Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw and Pittman.
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