FTC’s Additonal Rules for HIPAA Security The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a rule which gives more scope to the data breach notification rules as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The addition targets companies that provide health info in an online storage facitlity. Things like Google Health or Healthvault [...]
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FTC’s Additional Rules for HIPAA Security
Posted: 23rd August 2009 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, Security Assesment, risk assessmentTags: Federal Trade Commission, Health care, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security rule
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Forget Information Security, someone work on airport delays
Posted: 30th July 2009 by admin in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Government Security, TravelTags: airport delay, bwi
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Forget Information Security, someone work on airport delays My posts are all usually information security related. Some interesting things on web security, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, all that good stuff. Well today I cannot blog about that. As much as I love it, get a probably un-natural excitement about it, I can’t do it. I [...]
HIPAA Assessments are the next wave
Posted: 12th July 2009 by admin in Compliance, Government Security, HIPAA, Security AssesmentTags: data theft, hipaa security, Managed Vulnerability Scanning, Website security
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In February, CVS was ordered to pay a fine of 2.5million dollars by the FTC. This fine was because their employees threw out personal information about patients. Who knew poor recycling programs could cost so much? HIPAA has been around for a number of years but not until recently did we see that it has [...]
US to set out cyber security plan -Baha to the rescue
Posted: 29th May 2009 by admin in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Government SecurityTags: antivirus, data loss, hacking, Managed Vulnerability Scanning, security, security metrics
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Why did it takes us over 2 decades to really approach the cybersecurity topic. When I started in informatio security in in 1994, it was the wild west. People were creating processes, developing security frameworks and growing a whole new industry. I like to think I played some part in being on the early team [...]