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Sarah Harvey / June 13, 2023
Many users of popular social media sites do not realize the potential risks they expose themselves to while using and participating in social networking. Most users develop a "dangerous level of assumed trust" with other users of these sites, regardless of whether or not they have actually verified their identities. This is why it is a good idea for businesses to put into place social media policies for employees to…
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Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022
Technical controls are sometimes illustrated with physical descriptions in order to help the non-technical person understand the concept. A firewall, for example, existed as a physical representation that everyone understood to be the wall that stopped a fire from moving through a building. This term later illustrated the purpose of a technical device blocking unwanted traffic from the Internet. Last fall, in a San Franciscan hospital, an incident occurred in…
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Sarah Harvey / June 15, 2023
It's one thing to suffer one data breach - there is room to recover. Will Anthem survive a second breach? Don't let this happen to you. With the Anthem breach still on the forefront of everyone's minds, as well as the upcoming supervision from the OCR and the new phase of HIPAA audits, we have put together some tips to help get you thinking about what you can do now to…
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Sarah Harvey / June 13, 2023
It's becoming more and more obvious every day, the need for enhanced security. As the security landscape changes, the threats to our sensitive data become more serious, and as a result the controls we put in place have gotten stronger. We see a new data breach in the headlines on an increasingly regular basis, as lots of criminals often target cardholder data, specifically. The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was…
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Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022
The recent Anthem data breach is potentially the largest breach to date in the Healthcare space. When your CEO or your largest clients ask you what your plan is to prevent the same from happening to you, what are you going to tell them? Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is essential for avoiding a data breach. Here are three things you should do immediately to avoid a data breach: Advanced…
