"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.
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.
An association of healthcare CIOs has prepared a lengthy, harsh critique of proposed rules for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program.
The group advocates substantial revisions in the criteria for the incentives, which were created by the HITECH Act, as well as a much less aggressive...
The list of 36 recent major breaches of healthcare information posted on a government Web site likely represents a small fraction of the significant breaches in healthcare in recent months, security experts say.
At a Senate hearing, Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence, added his voice to the growing chorus of cybersecurity experts who see dire consequences of a virtual attack on America's critical IT systems.
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday that is has notified nearly 100 organizations that their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks have been sharing information with the wrong people.
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