Ransom, implant attack highlight need for healthcare security
Reports find real healthcare breach damage is not in the statistics
Taylor Armerding | 09 Jan | Read more
Reports find real healthcare breach damage is not in the statistics
Taylor Armerding | 09 Jan | Read more
Healthcare is moving cautiously into cloud computing, virtualization, BYOD and other IT innovations. And there's good reason for the caution. Until an organization's IT leaders take meaningful steps to change what's typically seen as a lackadaisical privacy and security culture, the risk of patient-information loss remains high and costly.
Brian Eastwood | 19 Dec | Read more
Security <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690758/healthcare-security-needs-a-booster-shot">breaches among healthcare organizations</a> are soaring. That's the conclusion of the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by ID Experts.
George V. Hulme | 02 Dec | Read more
A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that a majority of health enterprises do not have the security in place, nor the policies, to properly protect patient data and privacy.
George V. Hulme | 01 Oct | Read more
Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military personnel may have been compromised after backup tapes containing the data went missing recently.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 30 Sep | Read more
Despite lingering privacy concerns, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is plowing ahead with plans to build a massive centralized database containing detailed healthcare claims information on millions of federal employees and their families.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Jun | Read more
Dell Wednesday announced its first endpoint encryption product, along with the possibility of factory installation on certain Dell PCs.
Ellen Messmer | 18 Nov | Read more
A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.