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A New York law firm has agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties to the state because it failed to protect the private and electronic health information of approximately 114,000 patients. How did the data theft happen? Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy and Bach (HPMB) represents New York City area hospitals in litigation and maintains sensitive private information […]
Continue ReadingIn this interview for Help Net Security, Troy Fine, Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Risk Management at Drata, talks about the challenges of data compliance and what companies must do to achieve it. Compliance has been an important factor for all businesses for quite some time now. What are the hurdles most companies have to overcome […]
Continue ReadingWithin the HIPAA Security Rule are Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards. These safeguards are as important to understand as they are to implement, so let’s get some clarifications for the non-initiated. Many healthcare entities and their business associates are routinely challenged with understanding and successfully implementing the technical safeguards defined by the HIPAA Security Rule. It’s been decades since HIPAA was […]
Continue ReadingData privacy regulations are designed to give consumers more transparency into and control over how their data is collected, shared and used, especially as more consumers grow concerned about how their data is accessed and used by big data companies. As more data privacy regulations go into effect, companies will face pressure to ensure they […]
Continue ReadingOf course, your employees are diligent, security conscious and loyal. But the real world tells a different story. A grand total of 94% of organizations had an insider data breach in the past year, with 84% of the data breaches resulting from human error. And while 66% of data breaches resulted from a malicious leak, […]
Continue ReadingSemafone released a survey which aimed to identify the underlying consumer sentiment on payment experiences with their healthcare providers. Over the last 20+ months, the healthcare system has endured significant challenges and turbulence as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers of all sizes have been pushed to their limits from every direction, including fast-tracking […]
Continue ReadingThe healthcare cybersecurity market size is anticipated to record a valuation of $35.5 billion by 2027, according to the most recent study by Global Market Insights. Increasing adoption for cloud services in developed as well as developing countries will boost the demand for healthcare cybersecurity. Increasing healthcare cybersecurity and regulatory compliance-related issues in developed regions […]
Continue ReadingGlobal communications company Infobip successfully obtained a dedicated HIPAA attestation report on 30 September 2021, representing an important milestone in demonstrating the maturity of the company’s data privacy and security program, that meets the needs of customers subject to HIPAA. The examination was performed by an independent service auditor according to the SSAE 18 standard, […]
Continue ReadingFugue announced support for Kubernetes security prior to deployment. Using policy as code automation built on the open source Regula policy engine, Fugue provides a unified platform for securing infrastructure as code (IaC) and cloud runtime environments using a single set of policies, saving cloud teams significant time and ensuring consistent policy enforcement across the […]
Continue ReadingFugue announced Fugue IaC, a unified platform for securing infrastructure as code (IaC) and cloud runtime environments using a single set of policies. Powered by a Unified Policy Engine, Fugue IaC saves cloud teams significant time and ensures consistent policy enforcement that eliminates the security gaps and wasted effort that come with using separate policies […]
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