What could be possibly wrong with “Best Practices” or “Leading Practices” that your favorite security consultant might be talking about? Or for that matter, how could we go wrong if we used …
I am sure some of you saw this news report about HHS OIG finding some security related deficiencies in the EHR certification program. I was keen to read the full …
It is probably safe to say that we security professionals hear the phrase in the title of this post rather frequently. For one, I heard it again earlier today from …
I came across this Akamai Security Blog post recently which I thought was a useful and informative read overall. As I read through the blog post however, something caught my …
Risk Assessment is a foundational requirement for an effective security or privacy program and it needs to be the basis for every investment decision in information security or privacy. To …
Notice the title doesn’t say HIPAA Security and Privacy. Nor does it have any of the words – HITECH, Omnibus Rule, Meaningful Use etc. That is the point of this post. Let …
Here is something to think about as a security/privacy consultant or consulting team, big or small … When you work on client consulting engagements, what are you really focused on? …
If you have been following some of our posts, you probably realize that we don’t advocate security for the sake of security. Nor do we like to do compliance for …
Like some of you perhaps, I have been reading a few recent articles on Healthcare data breaches, especially the one from Dark Reading and a detailed analysis of the 2010-to-date …