The federal list of major healthcare information breaches that have occurred since September 2009 now includes 265 cases affecting a total of more than 10.8 million individuals.
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced two projects tackling the issue of how to obtain patient consent to provide access to their electronic health records via health information exchanges.
After firing off a letter to Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs that questions the secret tracking, Sen. Al Franken schedules a May 10 hearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee he chairs on protecting mobile privacy.
IT security and privacy lawyer David Navetta says revelations that mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android maintain hidden files tracking users locations could pose a threat to organizations, regardless of whether the devices are owned by individual employees, the company or government agency for which...
The bad news is that banks and businesses have not made great progress in the fight against account takeover fraud. The good news is: They have the strategies and tools to win this fight in 2011.
Texas spent $1.2 million to notify individuals - as many as 3.5 million - whose personal information were exposed, $393,000 to established a call center and $290,000 to retain two IT consultants to examine the agency's IT security policies and procedures.
North American Clearinghouse Association, not the government, led the effort to move Food Stamps to e-payments. That's what the government wants to do with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace initiative, the fed's NSTIC point man says.
"Without improvements, the weaknesses identified may limit program and site-level officials' ability to make informed risk-based decisions that support the protection of classified information and the systems on which it resides," says Rickey R. Hass, deputy inspector general for audits and inspections.
Attackers could leverage vulnerabilities to gain control of air traffic control systems, with intruders using unprotected computers to compromise other systems that depend on the same network, a Transportation Department audit reveals.
Chief information security officers must gain buy-in from every business unit for a risk management framework, says Jim Murphy of Caritas Christi Health Care System.
From mobile devices to social media and cloud computing, IT governance is all about risk management. "You can't de-risk everything, but you can de-risk the majority of circumstances you will see in normal operations," says governance expert Robert Stroud.
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