The consumerization of IT and the popularity of BYOD are jeopardizing the security and integrity of enterprise data. Seeking an easy way to share files across smart phones, tablets, and desktops, employees are using free public cloud file sharing services that lack rigorous security and audit controls. These services...
Healthcare organizations signing new deals with vendors, including many cloud services providers, must make sure that their business associate agreements reflect the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule's requirements.
As the National Institutes of Health ramps up research projects involving human genomes, electronic health records and other sensitive data, it's exploring the best ways to protect that data, says research director Eric Green, M.D., PhD.
While a privacy advocate is demanding federal guidance on protecting health data in the cloud, one federal official says pending HIPAA modifications will help ensure patient data is safeguarded.
What are organizations' top cloud security concerns, and how are security leaders addressing these concerns through policy, technology and improved vendor management?
These are key questions posed by the 2012 Cloud Computing Security Survey, which was crafted with assistance from leading experts in cloud...
The increase in the availability and quality of medical images is enabling healthcare providers to successfully diagnose and resolve more patient problems than ever before. The downside is the demand placed on IT organizations to retain numerous medical images with huge file sizes in a reliable, secure, scalable, and...
Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends:
Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...
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