How Long Can Organizations be Affected by Healthcare Data Breaches?

2014 has been a big year for data breaches in the healthcare industry. From malicious insiders to accidental loss of devices containing patient information, the headlines for these data breaches were non-stop throughout this year. Healthcare data breaches can affect organizations even longer after the security issue was discovered. Not only financially, but the trust of patients who have had their protected health information (PHI) stolen and used in some other unauthorized way, will...

2014 has been a big year for data breaches in the healthcare industry. From malicious insiders to accidental loss of devices containing patient information,...

The recent spike in data breaches this year, 24,000 news stories to be exact, has led to record low levels of confidence amongst the public about data security, according to Deloitte. Last year alone, only 5,474 data breach news stores were reported, and even less in 2012 with 4,023. This number alone does not mean a greater number of data breaches, but the increase in news stories has definitely raised the awareness amongst the...

The recent spike in data breaches this year, 24,000 news stories to be exact, has led to record low levels of confidence amongst the...

From the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the FCC all the way up to the White House is pushing for stronger data security measures amongst organizations that deal with sensitive customer information. Just last week, the FCC fined two telecommunication companies $10 million, for neglecting to protect over 300,000 customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). This is the FCC’s first data security case and its largest privacy violation action ever. The telecoms failed...

From the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the FCC all the way up to the White House is pushing for stronger data...

Recent headlines involving unencrypted portable media such as CDs and USBs have hit the news. Most recently in Arizona, two unencrypted computer discs containing names and Social Security numbers were sent to another partner and after a month, the partner still said it had not received the discs. This situation along with many other healthcare industry data breaches proves that in no way is any organization immune to this threat. As stated in this...

Recent headlines involving unencrypted portable media such as CDs and USBs have hit the news. Most recently in Arizona, two unencrypted computer discs containing...

How many of you have company privacy and security guidelines at your company? Do you really follow each and every guideline? Based on a recent article of the data breach at AT&T, it doesn’t look like that is the case. One of its employees did not follow their “strict privacy and security guidelines” and gained access to customers’ accounts without authorization. Some of this information includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and Customer...

How many of you have company privacy and security guidelines at your company? Do you really follow each and every guideline? Based on a...

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