Tueoris Blog – Our Thoughts On Information Security and Privacy

Welcome to the introductory post in our “Meaningful Outcomes” series on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). If you are here ...
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By Mayra Cavazos, Senior Consultant, Tueoris, LLC Introduction The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has impacted businesses ...
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By Shawna Doran, Senior Manager, Tueoris, LLC and Dan Goldstein, Partner, Tueoris LLC In the run-up to May 25, 2018, ...
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Introduction Pharmaceutical and biotech companies sponsoring clinical research have traditionally relied on patient consent as the legal basis for processing ...
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If you are like most medium or large healthcare providers these days, your Electronic Health Record (EHR) environment is likely ...
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The OPM breach has been deservedly in the news for over a month now.   Much has been written and ...
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Since I follow the teleheath space rather closely from a security/privacy perspective, I was drawn yesterday to this article titled ...
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It has been just over a week since the #AnthemHack was made public. Over this period, the main stream media and ...
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HealthcareITNews reported yesterday on this letter that was written by several physician organizations to the ONC. I wanted to write ...
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It is no secret that Identity and Access Management (IAM) continues to be a challenge for many organizations. As a ...
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Like many other Health IT initiatives today, the primary driver for patient portals is regulatory in nature. Specifically, it is ...
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This is a detailed follow-up to the quick post I wrote the Friday before the Labor Day weekend,  based on my read ...
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In most cases, better security posture is all about getting a few basics right. And this recent incident related to ...
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Hello PCI SSC, You had me on board until I saw this statement in your guidance1 released yesterday. “However, using ...
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Almost all Payment Card Industry (PCI) breaches over the past year, including the most recent one at Supervalu appear to have ...
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By now, it should be clear that we need to consider strong (multi factor) authentication for access to anything of value ...
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What could be possibly wrong with “Best Practices” or “Leading Practices” that your favorite security consultant might be talking about? Or ...
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I am sure some of you saw this news report about HHS OIG finding some security related deficiencies in the ...
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It is probably safe to say that we security professionals hear the phrase in the title of this post rather ...
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I came across this Akamai Security Blog post recently which I thought was a useful and informative read overall. As ...
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I think it makes sense for the HIPAA Security Rule (even in its latest form from the Omnibus update)  not ...
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Risk Assessment is a foundational requirement for an effective security or privacy program and it needs to be the basis ...
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As is well known, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been conducting pre and post payment audits of ...
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Notice the title doesn’t say HIPAA Security and Privacy. Nor does it have any of the words – HITECH, Omnibus Rule, Meaningful ...
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I happened to read this article from Information Week Healthcare and was especially interested by this quote reproduced below… “CHIME ...
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Here is something to think about as a security/privacy consultant or consulting team, big or small … When you work ...
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I couldn’t help write this post when I noticed this press release based on an IDC Insights Survey of Oil ...
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If you didn’t notice already, the Office of Inspector General  (OIG) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...
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I was prompted to write this quick post this morning when I read this article. I think it is a ...
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Security Risk Analysis is something that we recommend all organizations conduct periodically or before a  significant process or technology change ...
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If you have been following some of our posts, you probably realize that we don’t advocate security for the sake ...
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Like some of you perhaps, I have been reading a few recent articles on Healthcare data breaches, especially the one ...
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It isn’t any news that achieving PCI DSS Compliance continues to be onerous for many merchants out there. PCI DSS ...
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The Verizon 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released last week has some interesting findings, just as it did last ...
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It was good to see the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) publish the long awaited proposed updates to HIPAA Security ...
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In one of my previous blogs, I covered the importance of logging the “right” events for an effective Log Management ...
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FTC announced earlier this morning that it is delaying enforcement of the Red Flags Rule to 12/31/10 pending expected legislation ...
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I recently received a tweet titled “PCI DSS Compliance – Quick and Dirty”. I think it is safe to say ...
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Frankly, I have lost count of how many times FTC has moved the deadline already (see my related post from ...
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PCI SSC has just released new details regarding the training schedule for the ISA program. The program is obviously PCI ...
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PCI DSS has had specific requirements for logging and review of those logs for sometime now. The logging requirements (under ...
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PCI SSC released another update yesterday related to digital audio recordings. The update provides further clarification (to the update on ...
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What am I doing here blogging on Effective Data Management? In the interest of full disclosure, I’m an Information Risk ...
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How often do we care to read the privacy statements we receive from any number of sources these days? I ...
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