Cybercriminals are organized, well funded, and highly motivated. They are deploying advanced malware, leveraging cloud-based computing resources, and developing cutting edge tools to attack your organization's data.security defenses.
The proliferation of online devices accessing personal and financial information,...
Cloud providers have transformed from offering a fringe platform utilized by courageous companies on technology's leading edge into a cloud-first, standard, go-to approach for running all sorts of business-critical systems. According to IDC, nearly 50% of IT infrastructure spend will be on private/public clouds by...
At a U.S. House hearing Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would eventually comply worldwide with the European Union's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.
At its core, HIPAA compliance is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring the appropriate access to and use of patient data by your users. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed, but without visibility into what users do with sensitive patient data...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg informally met with U.S. lawmakers on Monday ahead of two congressional hearings, where he is expected to face a bruising examination. One senator was blunt with Zuckerberg, contending that on data privacy "Facebook failed us."
In this era of "fake news," Time Inc. Deputy CISO Preeti Palanisamy takes seriously the challenge of maintaining the integrity of journalism from content creation through production and eventual publication.
Choosing the right password solution for your business means defining your unique needs, and finding the product that best delivers on those needs while answering two fundamental questions: Is it safe and reliable? Does it help achieve your security goals while enforcing better policies?
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CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...
In spite of all the news about advanced persistent threats and targeted hacks from nation-states, the most common security challenge facing enterprises today continues to be social engineering.
Successful hackers know the user is the weakest link in the security chain. Email phishing campaigns have proven to be...
Facebook says up to 87 million people may have had their personal details transferred to voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica. The figure includes 17 million people in nine countries outside the U.S., potentially intensifying regulator scrutiny of the social networking site.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social networking company is already complying with parts of Europe's GDPR privacy legislation, but it won't comply with all of its requirements worldwide. Zuckerberg's comments are likely to rile critics following the uproar around voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.
As the time rapidly approaches for enforcement on GDPR, even organizations outside of the Europen Union that are conducting business within that region will be subject to a new set of laws to protect personal identification information. The legislation replaces a two-decade-old EU directive that remained largely...
The GDPR regulation will be enforced beginning May 25, 2018 and for many organizations, the initial transition to GDPR compliance is likely to be a lengthy and challenging process that will require regular reevaluation based on continued reassessment of the risks.
The role of network security in preventing...
According to a recent report, The Identity Fraud Study, released by Javelin Strategy & Research, it showed in 2015, there were more than 1.5 million new account fraud victims that accounted for losses of $2.8 billion. This number increased by 40% in 2016, and there is no reason to believe that this trend is stopping...
With advances in big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and more, healthcare is primed to innovate. But do HIPAA, GDPR and other regulatory standards inhibit the ability to innovate? This whitepaper discusses healthcare's complex convergence of innovation and compliance.
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