If you are like most medium or large healthcare providers these days, your Electronic Health Record (EHR) environment is likely a very complex one. Such complexity brings with it a …
Security Logging and Monitoring for EHRs
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SIEM
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 …
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 …
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 …
Let’s talk some “real” insider threat numbers How can Access Governance and SIEM be useful as effective safeguards?
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 …
Logging for Effective SIEM and PCI DSS Compliance …. UNIX, Network Devices and Databases
In one of my previous blogs, I covered the importance of logging the “right” events for an effective Log Management or Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) deployment … see …