Since I follow the teleheath space rather closely from a security/privacy perspective, I was drawn yesterday to this article titled “How Health Privacy Regulations Hinder Telehealth Adoption”. From my experience, …
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This is how the Anthem breach could have been stopped, perhaps
It has been just over a week since the Anthem breach was made public. Over this period, the mainstream media and many of the bloggers and commentators, as usual, have …
Docs turn up the heat on ONC! Security Commentary
HealthcareITNews reported yesterday on this letter that was written by several physician organizations to the ONC. I wanted to write a couple of quick thoughts on the security aspects raised …
Patient Portals Make or Break
Like many other Health IT initiatives today, the primary driver for patient portals is regulatory in nature. Specifically, it is the Meaningful Use requirements related to view, download or transmit and …
Hello PCI SSC… Can we rethink?
This is a detailed follow-up to the quick post I wrote the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, based on my read at the time of the PCI SSC’s Special Interest Group …
Security is mostly basics, but talk is cheap
In most cases, better security posture is all about getting a few basics right. And this recent incident related to the breach of a Healthcare.gov server may be further proof …
Hello PCI SSC…
Hello PCI SSC, You had me on board until I saw this statement in your guidance1 released yesterday. “However, using risk as the basis for an organization’s information security program …
PCI Breaches Can we at least detect them?
Almost all Payment Card Industry (PCI) breaches over the past year, including the most recent one at Supervalu appear to have the following aspects in common: 1. They involved some compromise …
That Odd Authentication Dichotomy Needs To Change
By now, it should be clear that we need to consider strong (multi factor) authentication for access to anything of value. In an age and time when most public email services …