In the wake of hacker attacks, which have left healthcare providers uncertain about what security steps to take, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is working to help organizations sort out role-based identity and access management issues, says ONC's privacy officer, Lucia Savage.
An inspector general's memo that highlights three significant information security deficiencies that have plagued the U.S. Department of Labor for the past five years points out problems that most federal agencies confront.
Human resources departments can play an important role in helping to prevent insider breaches, says Reid Stephan, IT security director at St. Luke's Health System. In an interview, he describes his organization's strategy.
Misusing data access privileges can pose a threat to the integrity of an organization's IT systems and the privacy of individuals. But gray areas exist, and it's not always clear cut when "unofficially" accessing protected data means users are abusing their privileges.
The increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats facing healthcare are making privileged access management more critical, says Sudhakar Gummadi, CISO at Molina Healthcare, a managed care company.
Today's constantly evolving advanced malware and APTs can evade point-intime defenses to penetrate networks. Security professionals must evolve their strategy in lock-step to confront these advanced threats before, during and after attacks. NSS Labs recently cut through the noise surrounding advanced threats and the...
More and more companies today are finding themselves under a multitude of common and advanced malware attacks. As a security professional or IT manager, you are likely struggling to effectively identify attacks, let alone prioritize the most dangerous ones that should be addressed first.
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It is not too far when most enterprises will experience doomsday scenarios, as cyber threats are only increasing faster than the ability to implement security improvements. One cannot deny the fact that even those organizations employing good cyber practices are being penetrated, as hackers are getting more...
Despite advances by the security industry, criminals continue to break through security defenses. And attackers now realize that bigger and bolder attacks are not always better. New threat intelligence and trend analyses reveal how attackers take advantage of the gaps between the defenders' intent and action.
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Organizations constantly faces security issues as the workforce, technologies, and regulations change. And, as network perimeters dissolve, security considerations and concerns change. With more devices accessing your network, is your corporate mobile device security policy adequate and effective?
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What's your digital identity strategy? Numerous agencies in countries across Europe - such as the Italian postal service - are creating new approaches to verifying identities and allowing them to be used as a trusted service, says CA's Paul Briault.
The norm today is a set of customers with multiple identities that interact with your brand across many channels. With that comes the challenge of serving that customer with a fluid experience across every channel.
We're just beginning to get the customer experience right across all of the different channels we...
The Target breach was the hot topic for many RSA 2014 attendees, but Gartner's Avivah Litan was already talking about the next Target - a UK retailer that may have suffered a similar hack, exposing payment card data.
The identity world circa 2015 still operates in stovepipes -- mobile, API, and web identities are often managed and secured using separate processes and technologies. The holy grail for the future of identity is a single standards-based federated Identity and Access Management (IAM) system with a high degree of...
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