Organizations need to constantly conduct risk assessments in order to improve the storage and protection of critical data, says David Finn, Health Information Technology Officer at Symantec.
A personalized medicine project leveraging genetic information holds great promise for improving patient treatment but raises certain privacy issues, says Scott Megill, CIO at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
Art Coviello, RSA's executive chairman, confirms that information taken from RSA in March had been used as an element of an attempted broader attack discovered late last month on SecurID customer and defense contractor Lockheed Martin.
Despite improvement in organizations' abilities to plan for and predict disasters, they still lack an effective response. In fact, the biggest gap in business continuity today is understanding, says Lyndon Bird, director at the Business Continuity Institute.
The legislation sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy would nationalize data breach notification and stiffen penalties for those who fail to notify law enforcement and individuals of a data breach.
Security expert Kate Borten contends the proposed accounting of disclosures rule's requirement to provide patients with a report listing those who have accessed their records is a good idea.
Our 2011 survey exposes barriers preventing government IT security practitioners from doing their jobs effectively, identifies services and technology they need to safeguard IT and determines the comfort level they have with cloud computing.
David Navetta, an attorney who specializes in IT security and privacy, says the magistrate's recommendation, if accepted by the judge, could set an interesting legal precedent about the security banks are expected to provide for commercial customers.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., is attempting to determine how many patient records a fired employee, now charged with felony larceny, was hoarding.
An Alabama woman has been charged with violating HIPAA following allegations that she stole identifying information on about 4,500 patients from Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham.
The soon-to-be issued FY 2011 Chief Information Officer FISMA Reporting Metrics from the Department of Homeland Security will require agencies to report on their progress in automating the continuous measurement of the most critical security risks.
Authentication expert Steve Dispensa says banking institutions need to realign their authentication infrastructures to include a mix of in-band and out-of-band measures.
Federal and state banking regulators closed one bank and one credit union the week of May 30. These latest closings raise the total number of failed institutions to 58 so far in 2011.
Revelations that Google's Gmail and Sony Pictures were both targeted by hackers highlights growing concerns about cybersecurity and the sophistication - and frequency - of attacks, as well as how to keep the public informed about such incidents.
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