August 4, 2016 37 Months’ Imprisonment for Criminal HIPAA Violations A former customer service representative at Tampa General Hospital has been sentenced to 37 months’ imprisonment for criminal HIPAA violations and tax fraud. Shanakia Benton ... Read more
August 4, 2016 Infosys Joins the Growing List of Cloudyn Investors Infosys – India’s second largest software exporter – has announced it has invested $4 million in the cloud cost management and optimization firm Cloudyn – ... Read more
July 21, 2016 Firefox will be Blocking Invisible Flash Content from August 2016 Firefox has announced that it will be blocking invisible Flash content from August 2016. The move has been prompted by the risk that Flash content ... Read more
July 19, 2016 Oracle July Critical Patch Update: 276 Vulnerabilities Patched The Oracle July critical patch update issued today is the biggest to date. In total 276 security vulnerabilities have been addressed across 84 different products. Oracles ... Read more
July 18, 2016 Starbucks and McDonalds Block Porn Access on WiFi Networks Starbucks and McDonalds have announced that they are starting to block porn access on WiFi networks. McDonalds implemented web filters earlier this year, and Starbucks ... Read more
July 15, 2016 U.S. Government Looking to Recruit 3,500 More Cybersecurity Professionals in 2016 The U.S. government is currently trying to deal with increasingly sophisticated and persistent cybersecurity threats. Attacks are coming from all angles: Individuals, criminal gangs, hacktivists, ... Read more
June 14, 2016 NIST Cybersecurity Framework Update The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that there will be a minor NIST Cybersecurity Framework update in early 2017. NIST sought ... Read more
June 6, 2016 ONC Releases New Tools Explaining Consumers’ Rights to Access Health Information The HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released a new set of tools explaining consumers’ rights to access health information under ... Read more
May 28, 2016 Beware of HIPAA Violations When Responding to Yelp Reviews Online reviews of patients’ experiences with healthcare providers can be an invaluable way to gain feedback from patients. Some healthcare providers even encourage patients to ... Read more
May 25, 2016 OCR Updates HIPAA Guidance for Health App Developers The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has updated its HIPAA guidance for health app developers to make it easier ... Read more
March 10, 2016 Sophos Adds Next Gen Sandboxing to Email Security Appliance Sophos has announced a further update to its email security appliance to provide even greater protection against malware threats. The Sophos Email Appliance now includes ... Read more
February 23, 2016 Fortinet to Demonstrate Security Solutions for the Healthcare Industry While most businesses can deploy new cybersecurity solutions that will provide an additional level of protection from email-based threats, healthcare companies have an additional consideration. ... Read more
February 2, 2016 Skeddly Adds New Email, HipChat, and Slack Notification Options The cloud automation tool developed by Skeddly allows users to automatically start, stop, launch, terminate and reboot EC2 instances and schedule snapshots and AMI images, ... Read more
January 14, 2016 GorillaStack Enjoys an Impressive Year and Maintains Momentum in 2016 GorillaStack, a Sydney-based startup that provides AWS automation and cloud cost optimization tools, has had an impressive first year, having already made several key enhancements ... Read more
December 9, 2015 Hospital Use of Two-Factor Authentication Solutions The results of a study on the use of two-factor authentication solutions by non-federal acute care hospitals have recently been published by the Office of ... Read more
October 11, 2015 Average Cost of Cyber Crime Resolution Continues to Increase Cyber crime is costing the healthcare industry dearly, and that cost continues to rise. According to the latest survey released by the Ponemon Institute, the ... Read more
May 26, 2015 OCR Pre-Audit Screening Questionnaires Dispatched The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is gearing up for its compliance audits; and the OCR pre-audit screening questionnaires have ... Read more
May 6, 2015 Breach Response Best Practices Guide Released by DOJ The Cybersecurity Unit of the Department of Justice has released new guidance and breach response best practices to help organizations prepare for security breaches. It ... Read more
March 26, 2015 Clarification of HIPAA Rules for Medical Record Subpoenas The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act lays down a number of rules and regulations regarding the storage, use and disclosure of Protected Health Information ... Read more
February 3, 2015 New HIPAA Web Portal Launched by OCR The OCR is laying the foundations that will allow it to start a permanent audit program with the implementation of a new HIPAA web portal ... Read more
January 15, 2015 GFI Software Launches GFI MailEssentials 2015 GFI Software has announced its MailEssentials email security platform has been updated. MailEssentials 2015 includes several performance-enhancing updates that improve scalability and incorporate load balancing ... Read more
December 17, 2014 TigerText Awarded Enterprise-Ready Status under the SkyHigh CloudTrust Program This week has seen the TigerText secure messaging platform receive another accolade, having been certified as an “Enterprise-Ready” under the SkyHigh CloudTrust Program. The SkyHigh ... Read more
November 4, 2014 CMS Delays HIPAA Health Plan Identifiers Deadline The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new rule demanding a National Health Plan Identifier must be attached to all healthcare transactions. ... Read more
October 5, 2014 FDA Issues Medical Device Security Guidelines The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released medical device security guidelines for the use of medical devices in the healthcare industry. The medical ... Read more
September 1, 2014 Deadline Drawing Near for Business Associate Agreement Updates HIPAA covered entities (CE) only have until September 23, 2014 to complete the Business Associate Agreement updates as demanded by the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. The ... Read more
July 29, 2014 Unencrypted Healthcare Communications Violates HIPAA Rules Two healthcare professionals have recently discovered that the use of unencrypted healthcare communications violate HIPAA Rules for Privacy and Security, as they do not incorporate ... Read more
March 15, 2014 Benefits of BYOD Schemes When many CIOs and CISOs face with the choice of leveraging the benefits of Smartphones and mobile technology, they err on the side of caution ... Read more
November 25, 2013 Healthcare Network Security Tips Healthcare organizations have to implement a broad range of controls to ensure Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable information (PII) is kept secure; recently ... Read more
October 16, 2013 Common Healthcare BYOD Mistakes to Avoid To implement a BYOD scheme or not; that is the question for many CIOs and CISOs: Get it right and a healthcare organization can greatly ... Read more
August 15, 2013 BYOD Schemes for Nurses Increase in Popularity BYOD schemes for physicians have proven to be incredibly popular, and so too BYOD schemes for nurses, according to a new survey recently published by ... Read more