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New Jersey Gets Serious About Data Encryption

New Jersey Gets Serious About Data Encryption
  • Effective August 1, 2015, insurance carriers that issue health insurance in New Jersey must use encryption or other technology that renders personal information unreadable, undecipherable, or unusable by unauthorized persons when compiling or maintaining computerized records that include personal information.  Password protection is inadequate to comply with this law, known as Senate Bill 562 or S562.  The New Jersey legislature unanimously enacted S562 in response to heightened public concern about privacy and security issues....
  • Effective August 1, 2015, insurance carriers that issue health insurance in New Jersey must use encryption or other technology that renders personal information unreadable,...
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What Does A HIPAA Violation Cost?

What Does A HIPAA Violation Cost?
  • HIPAA violations can be very expensive.  It can cost an organization up to $50,000 per violation and is based on how negligent you are.  A violation can be losing or compromising a single healthcare record.  Multiply that by a few thousand or more and it can be a major hit to your bottom line. There is a sliding scale of penalties based on the level of negligence with a maximum penalty of $1.5 million...
  • HIPAA violations can be very expensive.  It can cost an organization up to $50,000 per violation and is based on how negligent you are. ...
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New Trend: Healthcare Data Breaches

New Trend: Healthcare Data Breaches
  • I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in the healthcare industry, and again over and over. With Anthem Inc. and then again with Premera Blue Cross, and Advantage Dental, all announced they had data breaches, however nothing about if there data was encrypted. How can 80 million and then 11 million then finally 150,000 patient records all in...
  • I don’t know how much more we can continue talking about healthcare data breaches. This is again a multi week of data breaches in...
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When Will Your Data Breach Happen?

When Will Your Data Breach Happen?
  •   IT security is a growing threat for businesses of every industry and no organization can be seen as safe. Hackers are learning new methods to attack web sites and networks. Most of the time employees have easy access to company information and are often unaware of how to detect and prevent these breaches because of a lack of training or lack of security for this information. The question is not if, but when will...
  •   IT security is a growing threat for businesses of every industry and no organization can be seen as safe. Hackers are learning new...
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Healthcare Industry has the Worst Data Security Practices

Healthcare Industry has the Worst Data Security Practices
  • Following the biggest data breach yet this year, with over 80 million Americans patient records being exposed from Anthem, the healthcare industry reputation for data security is at an all-time low. All of last year there were issues with insider threats, from malicious to accidental. To add on to this, there are now reports that it was email that was used to get into the Anthem network and steal all that data. The data...
  • Following the biggest data breach yet this year, with over 80 million Americans patient records being exposed from Anthem, the healthcare industry reputation for...
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Mandating Encryption for Organizations

Mandating Encryption for Organizations
  • Connecticut is taking the next step in guaranteeing that customer data is secure. Therefore, if companies want to do business in this state, they will have to make sure that all personal data that is stored and transmitted is encrypted. In addition this soon to be law would require business to enable stronger password protections and control how much personal identifying information can be downloaded at one time, to help mitigate damage in the...
  • Connecticut is taking the next step in guaranteeing that customer data is secure. Therefore, if companies want to do business in this state, they...
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Uber Data Breach, Uber Problems

Uber Data Breach, Uber Problems
  • The popular car sharing service Uber suffered a data breach on May 13, 2014 where the names and driver’s licenses of 50,000 drivers in the United States were exposed.  They only discovered the breach on September 17, 2014, but the big problem is they didn’t notify the affected parties until January 27, 2015. There are numerous problems here, the least of which is that Uber needs to improve the security of the information it...
  • The popular car sharing service Uber suffered a data breach on May 13, 2014 where the names and driver’s licenses of 50,000 drivers in...
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4 Ways to Protect Your Healthcare Data

4 Ways to Protect Your Healthcare Data
  • Healthcare organizations are under attack.  Hackers and other criminals want medical records and patient personal information since these can open up easy access to bank accounts and other financial systems.  The recent data breach at Anthem is a perfect example of how vulnerable organizations are.  The latest count from Anthem is 80 million people may be affected by this breach. Information in the healthcare industry is growing exponentially.  According to a study in 2014 on big...
  • Healthcare organizations are under attack.  Hackers and other criminals want medical records and patient personal information since these can open up easy access to bank...
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[Case Study] Achieving Software Quality and Secure Coding Concurrently

[Case Study] Achieving Software Quality and Secure Coding Concurrently
  • Major National Bank Achieves Software Quality and Secure Coding Concurrently through SPARROW Expansion in electronic financial services requires advancement in software quality and secure coding Report from the Financial Supervisory Service in 2012 states that half of the financial data processing errors were caused while modifying the program. For businesses related handling of financial transactions, the quality assurance of the software for the IT service is more important than in any other businesses. Furthermore,...
  • Major National Bank Achieves Software Quality and Secure Coding Concurrently through SPARROW Expansion in electronic financial services requires advancement in software quality and secure...
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The Debate of Encrypting to Prevent Data Breaches

The Debate of Encrypting to Prevent Data Breaches
  • All the data breaches in the news these days have caused many to think about encrypting their data to prevent the losses a breach will bring.  With one of the biggest private health care providers in the US falling victim to a massive data breach, we can learn from its experience. Even though credit card information wasn’t exposed, other sensitive data was, including names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and...
  • All the data breaches in the news these days have caused many to think about encrypting their data to prevent the losses a breach...
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