"Accountability for security and privacy in public cloud deployments cannot be delegated to a cloud provider and remains an obligation for the organization to fulfill," NIST Computer Scientist Tim Grance says.
With the tardy addition of the Sutter Health breach, the federal "wall of shame" tally of major healthcare information breaches now includes 385 incidents affecting more than 19 million individuals since September 2009.
Federal regulators are offering a hint about which of the pending rules affecting healthcare information privacy and security will be the first to be issued this year.
With hundreds of schools hosting online information assurance and IT security degree and certification programs, how do students smartly pick the right ones for them?
Another guilty plea has been entered in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved bogus therapy sessions for the elderly in the Miami area. With the plea by Sandra Jimenez, nine defendants have now either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
Hospitals and other covered entities looking for insights on how to prepare for a HIPAA compliance audit -as well as prevent breaches - should build a self-audit approach based on the findings of a recent government report, says attorney Timothy McCrystal.
Symantec reportedly said a 2006 breach led to the theft of the source code to its flagship Norton security software, reversing its previous position that it had not been hacked.
Online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com has issued an e-mail alert to more than 24 million customers regarding a newly-discovered data breach of an internal network.
Wikipedia.org founder Jimmy Wales pledges to shutter the online encyclopedia from midnight Tuesday to midnight Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation before Congress that he contends would threaten Internet freedom if enacted.
People with good analytical backgrounds that understand regulatory compliance are in demand. Their counterparts - defenders of IT systems - will always be in demand.
"We need the tens of thousands that can manage those defenders and then we need 100,000 that are out there learning the trade, that are passionate...
HITRUST has released its Common Security Framework version 4.0, which provides changes that account for federal and state regulations and standards and frameworks such as HIPAA, ISO, NIST and COBIT.
A small health plan in Tennessee is making a big investment in information security, using encryption, secure e-mail and other technologies to help prevent breaches.
Pace University's Seidenberg Cyber Security Institute plans to leverage public-private partnerships - a challenge for educational institutions. How will the institute help the private and public sectors meet their security needs?
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