DHS's Greg Schaffer tells the House Homeland Security Committee that the department would lead most responses to cyber attacks but definitive roles won't be determined until the administration completes a national incident response plan.
A new federal "tiger team" on healthcare privacy and security is preparing its first set of recommendations, focusing on making sure healthcare organizations exchanging clinical information take adequate precautions.
A new federal healthcare task force on privacy and security will begin spelling out on June 15 its priorities for developing policies governing health information exchanges.
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act also would replace paper-based FISMA compliance with continuous monitoring of technology systems and assaults by "friendly hackers" to test IT vulnerabilities.
The guide defines a seven-step contingency planning process that agencies should apply to develop and maintain a viable contingency planning program for their information systems.
Many observers have their fingers crossed that the formation of a federal healthcare privacy and security task force will greatly speed up efforts to create policies.
Reacting to requests from members of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission has yet again delayed enforcement of its Red Flags Rule until Dec. 31, 2010.
"Operators of critical infrastructure could opt-in to a government-sponsored security regime," Deputy Secretary William Lynn III says. "Individual users who do not want to enroll could stay in the wild wild West of the unprotected Internet."
Two U.S. Senators have introduced legislation to exempt smaller healthcare, accounting and legal practices from the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flags Rule.
The new chief privacy officer for the federal government's health information technology initiatives is ramping up efforts to set consistent policies for privacy and security.
The American Medical Association and two other physician associations have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from applying the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule to doctors.
Veterans Affairs CIO tells a House panel that the VA has taken significant steps to prevent further IT security breaches that have plagued the agency, but auditors testify that the department faces alarming consequences because of a lack of security controls.
Most House members voted for the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act, but with few Republicans supporting it, the measure failed to muster the two-thirds vote required to pass under rules that brought the bill back to life.
Although the list of major healthcare breaches reported to federal authorities so far does not yet include a large-scale hacking incident, organizations should nevertheless take preventive measures to avoid such attacks, a federal privacy expert says.
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