Is Data Encryption the Answer?

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...

It’s December and we are thinking there can’t be anymore insider threats this year, right? Wrong. From the past two weeks, we’ve had an ex-employee charged with accessing boss’s emails, laptop with patient health information (PHI) stolen from an employee’s car, former family center employee accessed a database of personally identifiable information (PII) and lastly an examiner for a national association lost a flash drive containing PII of members of a $13 million federal...

It’s December and we are thinking there can’t be anymore insider threats this year, right? Wrong. From the past two weeks, we’ve had an...

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,...

With it being the last month of 2014, and with a record year for data breaches, it’s time to look ahead to what’s next in data breaches in 2015. For the data breach industry, 2014 was a booming year with nearly half of all organization suffering at least one data breach, up 10% from last year. Although some organizations have taken some steps to be proactive in this, there still remains a lot...

With it being the last month of 2014, and with a record year for data breaches, it’s time to look ahead to what’s...

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...

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