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The State of Medical Image Archiving: A Survey for Healthcare IT Professionals

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...

Don't Fear the Cloud

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...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Risk Management and Compliance: Healthcare Best Practices Guide

Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...

HIPAA Password Security In Active Directory

Securing confidential patient health data for compliance with HIPAA and HITECH is now more important than ever. Successful compliance with these standards can involve many tools, IT components and business practices at significant cost to healthcare organizations. Even with all these initiatives in place, the...

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Healthcare IT Security

Maintaining the security of patient data is a complex proposition that affects every employee of a healthcare facility, every area of its IT system, and all vendors, partners, and insurers that work with the healthcare provider. While many facilities are working toward achieving full compliance with HIPAA,...

How the Public Sector Can Prevent Costly Data Losses

Businesses are faced with an assortment of security risks. Among the most prevalent risks are network attacks and infected computing systems (servers and end-user endpoints). The consequences of loss of use - that is, network failures and out-of commission computing systems - are just too great for any business to...

HIPAA & HITECH Act Essentials for Healthcare Executives

Many years ago, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) promised to overhaul the healthcare industry by, in part, mandating protective measures on sensitive healthcare records. The HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules ended up not having the impact many expected. Years after both rules took...

HITECH Compliance Simplified

Healthcare information and specifically Electronic Patient Healthcare (ePHI) has been in the news recently and featured as part of healthcare reform. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) component of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009 has not received as...

HIPAA and HITECH Act Compliance Guide

When private medical records are breached, healthcare service providers suffer damage to their brand, reputation, loss of trust from their patients, and severe financial repercussions. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandates that appropriate administrative, technical, and...

6 Activities for an Effective Data Breach Preparedness Plan

This year more companies have a baseline data breach response plan in place. Since 2013, the percentage of organizations that reported having a data breach response plan increased from 61 percent to 81 percent. However, data breach response plans are often missing crucial steps. While it is encouraging to...

Ransom-based Attacks: Choosing the Right Mitigation Strategy

For years, organizations have been threatened by DDoS attacks on several fronts, ranging from volumetric attacks to application-level and DNS strikes. Now come ransom-based attacks. In this interview with Trey Guinn - head of solution engineering at CloudFlare - he discusses the importance of matching your DDoS...

What's Hiding in SSL/TLS Traffic?

You've read the daily headlines about security misfortunes of businesses and government organizations. The digital age (AKA the rising adoption of the internet, cloud apps, IoT, and even public WiFi) is creating an even easier playing field for cybercriminals. And the web traffic flowing through these new technologies...