The Best Way to Protect PHI from Unauthorized Access

Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary publish a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals. The list posted by HHS shows that data belonging to more than 120 million people has been compromised in over a thousand separate breaches at organizations handling protected health data since 2009. This is a staggering one third of...

Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary publish a list of breaches...

Healthcare data breach due to misplaced flash drives seem to be a rising trend as recently another case was reported on August 7, 2015. Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts reported that a flash drive was missing. Even though it had very limited patient information, it did include lab testing information such as patient names, lab testing codes and slide identification numbers. Letters to about 2,000 patients were sent out, and have yet to locate...

Healthcare data breach due to misplaced flash drives seem to be a rising trend as recently another case was reported on August 7, 2015....

As we do business on our smartphones and tablets, most of us think that printing is a thing of the past, yet more than three-quarters (76 percent) of organizations indicate that printing is critical or important to their business activities. With all the focus on digital communication, many organizations may ignore the security risks posed by allowing anyone to print anything to any device. In fact about 70 percent of businesses indicated they experienced...

As we do business on our smartphones and tablets, most of us think that printing is a thing of the past, yet more than...

With the data breaches and theft of customer data increasing at an alarming rate, lawsuits relating to these breaches have been a hot topic....

With the data breaches and theft of customer data increasing at an alarming rate, lawsuits relating to these breaches have been a hot topic....

Please Welcome Out New National Account Manager for North America, Alper Kizar Fasoo is pleased to announce the hiring of Alper Kizar as the new National Account Manager for North America. >> Read More >> Join Fasoo at Three Events in October Fasoo will be at three events in October, we look forward to seeing you. >> Read More >> How to Improve DLP Solutions DLP is a great way to discover...

Please Welcome Out New National Account Manager for North America, Alper Kizar Fasoo is pleased to announce the hiring of Alper Kizar...

Ah the printer. Work horse of business communication for decades. Most organizations indicate that printing is critical or important to their business activities. Even when we think most of our business is done electronically, we still print a lot of documents. Some industries are more paper-intensive than others. Healthcare, government and financial services still rely on printing for numerous business processes. People need to print forms, certain processes require one or more signatures and...

Ah the printer. Work horse of business communication for decades. Most organizations indicate that printing is critical or important to their business activities. Even...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data breaches at United Airlines, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and health insurer Anthem. In addition, on July 31, the University of Connecticut (UConn) announced that their engineering school servers were hit by a cyberattack originating from China. United Airlines, the second-largest airline in the world detected a cyberattack into its...

Will the bad news every stop making the headlines? Evidence now indicates that hackers with connections to China were responsible for the recent data...

According to Gartner, Inc. by 2020, 25 billion Internet connected “things” will be in use. The Internet of Things “IoT” has rapidly become one of the most used expression across business and technology. IoT, is defined as “a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.” Now, how does data security play into this? Well,...

According to Gartner, Inc. by 2020, 25 billion Internet connected “things” will be in use. The Internet of Things “IoT” has rapidly become one...

The risk of data breaches by employees and other trusted insiders is getting a lot of attention lately. A recent survey by The Ponemon Institute found that employee negligence is a greater risk than malicious intent when it comes to data security problems. Unintentional mistakes, which may be caused by multitasking and working long hours, can result in insider threats and cost companies millions of dollars each year. The survey report, “The Unintentional Insider...

The risk of data breaches by employees and other trusted insiders is getting a lot of attention lately. A recent survey by The Ponemon...

In a recent article regarding the top six data breach trends of 2015, we should expect more breaches in the healthcare industry, legal and regulatory pressure will increase on CEOs and boards, despite headlines involving breaches by hackers and foreign countries disgruntled or negligent employees will be companies’ biggest security threats, hackers increasingly will target data stored in the cloud, credit card breaches will rise over the next few months and the Internet of...

In a recent article regarding the top six data breach trends of 2015, we should expect more breaches in the healthcare industry, legal and...

Blog