Image via Wikipedia There is a lot of focus on network security and application security today. Years ago it was operating system security that was all the rage. But with the advent of the strict requirements of some of the regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and FISMA, more attention needs to be paid to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’
What is the value of a Data Breach?
Posted: 27th January 2010 by admin in Compliance, HIPAA, Hacking News, PCI, Security AssesmentTags: Citibank, Data Breach, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Ponemon Institute, Pretty Good Privacy
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife SC magazine just reported that the Ponemon Institute has determined the cost of a data breach is $204 per record. “Data breaches last year cost organizations $204 per exposed record on average, which represents an almost two percent increase over 2008, according to the fifth annual “Cost of Data [...]
HIPAA Vendor Compromised Healthcare Records
Posted: 12th November 2009 by admin in HIPAATags: Aetna, Health care, Health insurance, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, security
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This is story that is several months old, but as I came across it, i thought it would make a good point. A vendor handling healthcare records has lost social security numbers of people in March of 2009. In this case, Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for [...]
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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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 [...]