How Worried Should We Be about the Hacks on the Government?

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...

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...

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...

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...

It definitely has been one of the worst weeks for data breaches in the healthcare industry. We went from big news from Worcester, MA with UMASS Memorial Medical Group (UMMG) reporting an insider data breach of about 14,000 patient health information, to probably the biggest not healthcare data breach but potentially the biggest breach of the year with up to 80 million patient personal records on the line. The recent breaches have sparked debate...

It definitely has been one of the worst weeks for data breaches in the healthcare industry. We went from big news from Worcester, MA...

Insider threats still remain to be a higher concern for business not only in the United States, but around the world. Businesses are more than ever expected to maintain or increase their data security and data protection budgets to mitigate the risk of insider threats. When we look at business today, more than 93% of U.S. respondents to a survey say the feel vulnerable to insider attacks. There is no doubt that those that...

Insider threats still remain to be a higher concern for business not only in the United States, but around the world. Businesses are more...

Organizations are beginning to contemplate what the best solution is to prevent data breaches from happening to them. Recently the NCUA experienced a data breach when an examiner lost a flash drive with member’s personal information. Soon after NCUA Board Chairman, Debbie Matz contemplated a rule that would require encryption of the data. Matz said it right though when referring that, “That’s a very fundamental thing to do, to make sure that if the...

Organizations are beginning to contemplate what the best solution is to prevent data breaches from happening to them. Recently the NCUA experienced a data...

We are in the last month of 2014, and we continue to hear about insider threats in the healthcare industry. In a recent headline, a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio reported that an employee improperly accessed medical and personal information of about 700 patients over a three-year period. The employee breached the hospital system’s electronic medical records, and was able to access names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, medical and health insurance account numbers...

We are in the last month of 2014, and we continue to hear about insider threats in the healthcare industry. In a recent headline,...

This year has really been the year for the insider threats as employees or former employees have either maliciously or unintentionally caused data exposure. Even as late as November of this year a former employee of a major beverage company filed a lawsuit against the company because of negligence, breach of contract and a number of other violations. The data breech occurred over a six year period from 2007 to 2013, when a former...

This year has really been the year for the insider threats as employees or former employees have either maliciously or unintentionally caused data exposure....

A recent article explained that “recovering from a data breach is like recovering from a skunk attack. No matter where or when you go in the house the stink still clings.” Obviously for those data breaches that have happened this year still have not had the dust settle as the impact of those breaches still linger. However, earlier in 2011 Sony’s PlayStation data breach exposed 77 million user personal account information. It wasn’twasen’t until...

A recent article explained that “recovering from a data breach is like recovering from a skunk attack. No matter where or when you go...

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