It Really Is About Protecting The Data

Information security is a top concern of all organizations. According to IBM, 83% of CISOs say that the challenge posed by external threats has increased in the last three years. They worry about the legal and financial risks associated with data loss, privacy breaches and not complying with regulations. Daily stories in the news show examples of organizations that failed to implement sufficient security measures to protect themselves from hackers and authorized internal people...

Information security is a top concern of all organizations. According to IBM, 83% of CISOs say that the challenge posed by external threats has...

Massive PHI Breach at Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas An employee of the Children’s Medical Clinics with a retaliatory agenda to cause damage to the clinic’s reputation, stole and improperly disclosed the confidential data of 16,000 patients. Notification letters were sent to affected people to inform them that an employee took paper records from the facility and sent screenshots of electronic patient records to a former clinic employee. The Office for Civil Rights...

Massive PHI Breach at Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas An employee of the Children’s Medical Clinics with a retaliatory agenda to cause damage...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data breaches at United Airlines, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and health insurer Anthem. In addition, on July 31, the University of Connecticut (UConn) announced that their engineering school servers were hit by a cyberattack originating from China. United Airlines, the second-largest airline in the world detected a cyberattack into its...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data...

According to Gartner, Inc. by 2020, 25 billion Internet connected “things” will be in use. The Internet of Things “IoT” has rapidly become one of the most used expression across business and technology. IoT, is defined as “a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.” Now, how does data security play into this? Well,...

According to Gartner, Inc. by 2020, 25 billion Internet connected “things” will be in use. The Internet of Things “IoT” has rapidly become one...

We all share files with those we work with, those we are friends with and those we are doing business with. Nowadays with mobile devices, email and the cloud, it is extremely easy to share files, easy enough that we may accidentally send and share them to the wrong person. Recently, the National Guard was hit with a data breach, where files containing personal information were unintentionally transferred to a “non-DoD-accredited data center by...

We all share files with those we work with, those we are friends with and those we are doing business with. Nowadays with mobile...

Earlier this month, an article recorded that data breaches in 2015 are on pace to break records both in the number of breaches and records exposed. In 2014, the numbers of US data breaches tracked by the Identity Theft Resource Center hit a record high of 783, with about 86 million confirmed records exposed. So far this year, as of June 30, the number of breaches reached 400 and additionally, about 118 million records...

Earlier this month, an article recorded that data breaches in 2015 are on pace to break records both in the number of breaches and...

It is no doubt that 2015 is on record pace for the number of data breaches compared to previous years. However, typically we would assume that these data breaches would happen in such industries as healthcare, finance, retail or the government. We would have never thought that this would enter the area of professional sports teams. Now we know it is happening inside America’s favorite pastime, baseball, and it’s reaching national and worldwide headlines....

It is no doubt that 2015 is on record pace for the number of data breaches compared to previous years. However, typically we would...

Every time we look to the news we find at least one data breach incident, some more minor than others. However, at that time it was businesses in retail, finance or in healthcare. Now we look to the news and we discover that more and more data breaches are focused on the government. From third party contractors that deal with government to household names such as the Internal Revenue Service, The White House, and...

Every time we look to the news we find at least one data breach incident, some more minor than others. However, at that time...

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