HIPAA
Identity & Access Management: Give Me a REST
June 19, 2013 Added by:Simon Moffatt
RESTful architectures have been the general buzz of websites for the last few years. The simplicity, scalability and statelessness of this approach to client-server communications has been adopted by many of the top social sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Why? Well, in their specific cases, developer adoption is a huge priority.
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Irregardless, Begs the Question, and SSAE 16 Certified
June 04, 2013 Added by:Jon Long
"Irregardless" is not a word, and is not a substitute for irrespective or regardless. "Begging the question" is a logical fallacy, not a substitute for "...which raises the question...", and there is no such thing as an "SSAE 16 certification".
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The Year of the Security Standard
May 09, 2013 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Often in the security field we hear the question asked, “Who’s watching the watchers?” It occurred to me recently that one might make a similar rhetorical quip about other aspects of our field – in particular, the question of “Who’s standardizing the standards?”
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Using Least Privilege to Effectively Meet PCI DSS Compliance
April 25, 2013 Added by:Andrew Avanessian
PCI DSS Requirement guidelines certainly reinforce how compliance has hardened from suggestive or advisory directives to true mandates with hefty fines and strict consequences for those failing to take heed.
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Conducting Secure Transactions On-the-go with VPNs
March 20, 2013 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
The safeguarding of private customer information has become a top priority for many organizations, thanks in no small part to government regulation and industry oversight, as we move toward an increasingly digital world.
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Celebrity Privacy Breaches and High School Physics
February 01, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In our previous post on patient privacy, we noted that patient data loss is a lot like planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle – no one really knows where the planes disappeared to, since the people on the planes never return to tell the story...
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Fly First Class But Pay Economy for HIPAA Compliance
January 22, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
After the sanity check with the team that constructed the threat scenarios, you and your HIPAA consultant need to calculate your Value at Risk. Calculating VaR will help shed light on where to save money and where to spend money...
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The Phoenix Project: A Review
January 16, 2013 Added by:Ed Bellis
Gene Kim was kind enough to provide me with an advanced review copy of The Phoenix Project who is a co-author of the book. Fair warning: the first half of this book brought back nails-on-a-chalkboard type memories of dealing with large-scale audits and everything that comes with it...
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Common Sense Cybersecurity
January 13, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
We start with one big problem. Internet architecture was never made for security. One of my earliest articles quoted the father of the Internet Vint Cerf by saying, "One of things incumbent on all of us is to introduce strong authentication into the fabric of the smart grid. We did not do that with the Internet."
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The #1 Bermuda Triangle of Patient Privacy – debunking patient data loss
January 05, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Patient data loss is a lot like planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle – no one really knows where the planes disappeared to, since the people on the planes never came back to tell the story. The same way we talk about patient data loss and never really consider how you can “lose” patient data and whether it can be “returned”.
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All Aboard
December 17, 2012 Added by:Randall Frietzsche
We need a well-conceived set of administrative and technical controls - our policy, while still acknowledging that every living creature on the planet is organically attached to a smart device, must dictate that the user will follow the policy at risk of termination...
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Compliance Combines with Vulnerability Scanning to Create Aegify
December 10, 2012 Added by:Michelle Drolet
Two security firms, the established Rapid7 vulnerability manager and eGestalt, a cloud-based compliance management provider, have signed an OEM deal that will do something for the IT security industry that hasn’t been done before: a combination security and compliance posture management...
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E-mailing Passwords - Practice What You Preach
November 19, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
That’s right, I got an email with my username and password listed right there. That probably doesn’t anger normal people (let alone drive them to write an article about it), but I have never been accused of being normal so I’m pretty annoyed. Here, in no particular order, are my reasons for the anger and frustration...
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Buzzword Compliance Not Enough: Must Haves for Meaningful Use
November 08, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Many technology vendors tout the idea of self management, and the advantages of mobile healthcare apps, virtual visits, tablets and e-detailing but in fact, a face-to-face relationship with a doctor is more powerful than a digital relationship alone. We don’t need Sherry Turkle to tell us that...
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Enterprise Resilience: Healthcare Edition (Part 1: Challenges)
October 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Organizations that make up the small to medium enterprise market are finding themselves in trouble as they are appearing on a lot of radar screens for attack, yet can't seem to find the resources they need to defend themselves adequately. Lots of challenges present around that point, to start off with...
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Using brainware to store patient data and ensure patient privacy
October 16, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
If pharmaceutical companies can access data from patients, then they can design and manufacture better products. This is good for patient health but problematic for current regulation of patient privacy. There is no such thing as patient privacy once big commercial ventures like large pharmas get involved...
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