Migrating to the Cloud: 4 Considerations for CISOs
Flexibility, speed, scalability, security, and decreased infrastructure and maintenance costs all contribute to the allure of migrating to the cloud. But while the cloud offers benefits,...
Memorial Healthcare’s 10 Steps to a Holistic Patient Privacy Program
Memorial Healthcare System (MHS) is a longtime leader in high-quality healthcare services for South Florida residents. With over 13,000 employees, 1,800 beds, and 2,500 physicians, MHS is one of...
Last-Minute GDPR Checklist: Have You Completed These 6 Steps to GDPR Compliance?
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline is in just over one week. On May 25, GDPR will dramatically change the way businesses process, store, and transmit EU citizen data, making...
Is Your Cloud Vendor Taking Your Security & Compliance Posture Hostage?
Is your cloud vendor taking your security and compliance posture hostage? In this post, we offer lessons learned to help you break free from security and compliance challenges.
Insider Security Threats Now the Biggest Cybersecurity Problem for Financial Services Industry
Reports show that insider threats are the biggest cybersecurity problem in the financial services industry. In this post, discover how to combat the threat and mitigate risk to your organization.
Improving Patient Care: 5 Benefits of Interoperability in Healthcare
Interoperability is the extend to which systems can exchange and interpret shared data. In the healthcare industry, interoperability offers specific benefits that improve workflows and provide...
IBM Released Its 2018 Data Breach Study — and Financial Services and Healthcare Organizations are Taking Note to Maintain Customer Trust
IBM and Ponemon’s latest Cost of a Data Breach Report illustrates the dauntingly true cost of a data breach to an organization, from direct financial impact to reputational damage and churn. Below...
How Privacy and Security Can Overcome Interoperability Challenges in Healthcare
Patient privacy is key to providing quality healthcare – but so is data-sharing. Interoperability is quickly becoming a buzzword in healthcare, but one with backbone, as providers seek new ways to...
How HR Managers Can Prevent Data Loss in 2018 During Offboarding
Cybercrime took center stage in 2017 and 2018 will be no different. From ransomware attacks like Petya and WannaCry to the NSA breach, all signs point back to the root cause of these incidents as...
How Healthcare Data Security Lays the Foundation for Improved Patient Care
Technology is widespread in healthcare organizations and growing. In fact, 91 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations have undertaken or plan to undertake a technology adoption initiative in the...
How Every Healthcare CISO Can Gain Time Back in their Day
Healthcare systems continue to face increasing challenges to secure patient data. From a 1988.6% increase in malware attacks since 2015 to data theft fueling the opioid crisis, the challenge for...
Hospital Drug Diversion Prevention: Healthcare Workers Aren’t Immune to the Opioid Epidemic
With the opioid crisis and drug theft coming together, hospital drug diversion prevention is necessary to protect patients and organizations.
Hidden Risk for CIOs: A Guide to Managing Shadow IT Security
Shadow IT is rampant in many organizations, representing as much as 50 percent of a company's technology spending, on average. And it can have a number of consequences for a business. First and...
HHS OCR: How Care Providers Can Avoid Falling Victim to ‘Cyber Extortion’
This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a January newsletter with a focus on cyber extortion. The healthcare industry is in the...
Healthcare Providers Reveal No. 1 Patient Privacy Monitoring Solution
As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, care providers are faced with a need for tools to defend against hackers, attackers, and insider threats. There are a plethora of vendors to...
Healthcare Data Security Breaches: Singapore’s Historically Large Data Breach Committed by Highly Sophisticated Cyber-Criminals
This week, Singapore announced a data breach at its largest healthcare provider, SingHealth; among its victims were Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This instance is just one example of many...
GDPR and HIPAA: What are the Differences and How Can I Work Towards Compliance?
Healthcare organizations are no strangers to protecting sensitive data under HIPAA requirements. But what do privacy regulations like GDPR mean for compliance?
FINRA Cybersecurity: Where Should Financial Services Firms Focus on Cloud Compliance?
Are you responsible for complying with FINRA? As a financial services firm, this post contains the key areas you should focus on to simplify compliance and protect sensitive data.
Financial Services Utilize User Activity Monitoring for Data Theft Prevention
Is your financial services company utilizing user activity monitoring to prevent data theft? Read on to learn more about why data theft is prevalent among financial orgs and how to prevent it.
FDA Approves Drug 10 Times Stronger than Fentanyl: What It Means for Drug Diversion Prevention
With the newest FDA approved drug being 10x stronger than Fentanyl, this could cause cases of drug diversion. Find out how to prevent prescription pilfering in this post.