RoboCent, a company that specializes in robocalling voters, left nearly 3,000 files containing detailed data about Virginia voters online by mistake. The data has been secured, but the incident points again to ongoing problems of security misconfigurations in repositories and lack of end-to-end encryption.
The FDA has issued new guidance spelling out its policy for organizations using electronic health record data in FDA-regulated clinical investigations, such as studies of the long-term safety of various drugs. Among other criteria, the EHRs need to contain certain privacy and security controls, the agency says.
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST has created a series of free resources touting best industry practices that utilize the latest technology, automation and system controls to guide industry professionals through minimizing their cyber risks and identifying threats. These practices go a...
The hacking of an email account of a medical clinic employee during travels overseas demonstrates the risks posed to data when workers travel. Security experts offer insights on mitigating those risks.
As part of a sweeping plan to "modernize" Medicare, federal regulators are also proposing to expand reimbursements for telehealth services. But what are the potential privacy and security concerns that healthcare providers need to address if they offer more telehealth services for patients?
An incident involving an unsecured database containing information about thousands of HIV/AIDS patients in Tennessee is shining a spotlight on privacy risks involving sensitive health data.
Look at information security through the lens of business risk, and you'll begin to make decisions about security in light of their impact on the business.
With security threats emerging faster than ever, what if your most important information is not protected? What strategic business advantage do you gain if it is...
As businesses change their key strategies, they must ensure they mitigate new risks that emerge, says Chris Testa of Cybereason. This must go beyond a defense-in-depth approach to include a plan for what to do when an inevitable intrusion occurs, he says.
To build out the business structure and technical functionality that enables your organization to deliver products and services quickly and efficiently, you have to know how you're doing compared to how your competitors and peers are doing.
In other words, CIOs today must be highly effective at...
Without fostering feelings of responsibility and accountability for cybersecurity among employees, security awareness training won't necessarily make an organization any safer or less vulnerable.
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Why current awareness practices don't work;
The value of evidence-based awareness;
How...
Big data and artificial intelligence have sparked a paradigm shift in risk management. From cybersecurity to PR to logistics, continuous monitoring is already making a major impact.
Download this eBook and learn how continuous monitoring technologies are transforming a range of risk areas such as:
Vendor...
How can security ratings help you identify, quantify, and mitigate cyber risk? Smart benchmarking requires objective, verifiable and actionable metrics on security performance.
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To create a framework for effective cybersecurity benchmarking;
Security ratings can be used to...
A Shift Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Information Security
Every IT security department's job, to protect data, has become more challenging as the security perimeter has dissolved with the adoption of cloud applications. The traditional threat-centric approach is to apply rigid policies to a dynamic...
Federal regulators are reminding organizations about the importance of identifying and patching software vulnerabilities. But why are these seemingly basic security steps so challenging for so many?
Stolen data is one thing - the consequences are obvious. But what if data is not stolen or leaked, but rather altered? What could be the damage? Diana Kelley of Microsoft discusses the emerging topic of data integrity and how to preserve it.
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