Ron Kloewer, CIO at 25-bed Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, explains why the critical access facility's spending on information security will grow in 2011.
Ron Kloewer, CIO at 25-bed Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, explains why the critical access facility's spending on information security will grow in 2011.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has taken steps to help ensure thumb drives lacking encryption cannot be plugged into its computers. The move comes following the discovery of an unencrypted drive containing personal information on veterans.
Five AvMed Health Plan customers have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the 1.2 million individuals potentially affected by a healthcare information breach.
A national chain of 200 long-term care and rehabilitation facilities has beefed up its use of encryption following two recent breach incidents involving the theft of unencrypted computer devices.
Healthcare organizations should identify multiple steps for addressing the risks that could lead to a costly breach of information, says Christopher Hourihan, manager of development and programs at the Health Information Trust Alliance.
Critics of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach have called out for tougher encryption standards for financial institutions and their third-party service providers. Applications for encryption are all around us from encrypting email traffic to board communications, remote access and mobile & Internet banking....
Data security breaches add millions of dollars to bottom line expenses, but there is also the immeasurable cost of security breaches on your brand that affect future revenue and growth. Virtually every financial institution today exchanges large amounts of information both inside and outside the organization....
Forensics has become a hot topic for a variety of internal factors, including the importance of the Internet to everyday business and, with it, the rise of electronic fraud.
Externally, financial institutions especially feel regulatory heat in the form of FFIEC GLBA Notification Rule, SEC/NASD Rule 3010 and even he...
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