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Medicare Tests Alternative To Fraud-Fighting Smart Card
Magnetic stripe cards and conventional credit-card terminals may be a less costly way to go.
Integrated Security Reduces Health IT Data Breaches
PricewaterhouseCoopers finds fewer breaches in healthcare organizations that have integrated privacy and security compliance efforts.
HHS: Patient Data Breaches Have More Than Doubled
Better adherence to federal breach disclosure policies may explain the severe uptick in notifications in 2010, Department of Health and Human Services tells Congress.
HHS Unveils Personal Health Record Privacy Notice
The template will help consumers learn more about PHR security and data management practices, much like nutrition labels do for foods.
Medicare Smartcards Aim To Thwart Fraud, Waste
Bipartisan legislation would issue digital ID cards to 48 million Medicare enrollees, save $30 billion a year, say sponsors.
HIPAA Pain: How To Cope
Although providers worry about hugh fines for leaking patient data, keeping this information secure isn't that hard--but it soon will be.
Data Security Not High On Hospitals' Priority List
Fewer than half of large facilities conduct annual risk assessments, but that might have to change, according to CSC consultant.
Stanford Hospital Breach Exposes 20,000 ER Records
Spreadsheet uploaded to homework-help website exposed sensitive patient data for almost a year.
Electronic Health Records Face Many Insider Snoops
Nosy staff members committed most of the personal data breaches that hit more than 70% of healthcare organizations last year, survey says.
Verizon Adds Mobile Security To Healthcare Cloud
Doctors can access electronic health records, digitally sign
prescriptions from smartphones and tablets with NIST Level 3
authentication in Verizon's UIS-Healthcare cloud-based service.
Hurricane Irene Sparks Talk Of HIT Disaster Strategy
Health IT managers are looking at the damage done and reassessing their disaster planning strategies.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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