Incident Response Planning: 6 Steps to Prepare your Organization

by Sarah Harvey / February 20, 2023

In this webinar hosted by LockPath, Jeff Wilder discusses the importance of incident response and the steps your organization can take to create an Incident Response Plan. Wondering what incident response is? Incident response is a predetermined approach for identifying and addressing a security incident, which dictates the procedures following detection to minimize the impact. Incident response planning is vital to your organization. Incidents not handled properly have the potential…

Disaster Recovery Plan Steps, Checklist & Processes

by Sarah Harvey / December 19, 2022

When Disaster Strikes, Will You be Prepared? To ensure that operations remain up and running during hurricane, tornado, or rainy seasons, businesses must have a Disaster Recovery Plan that has been developed, tested, and is in place and known to all relevant parties. Hurricanes like Matthew and Sandy have devastated businesses over the last couple of years, and without a well-developed Disaster Recovery Plan, many businesses were left inoperable, damaging…

Compliance Is Never Enough: Secure Software Development

by Sarah Harvey / February 20, 2023

What is an SDLC? What is a software/systems development lifecycle? What elements should be included in an SDLC? What is the most important phase in an SDLC? What are the different frameworks? What are the methodology terms? How do you validate compliance with an SDLC? Is the OWASP an SDLC? This webinar educates listeners with an overview on the individual phases and elements that should be included in an SDLC…

Lessons Learned from 2016 HIPAA Phase 2 Audits

by Sarah Harvey / May 9, 2023

Now, with more than 200 Phase 2 HIPAA desk audits completed, Devin McGraw, Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, is encouraging healthcare organizations to take a look at lessons learned from the completed desk audits to prepare for future HIPAA audit enforcement. Understanding and navigating HIPAA audit enforcement has been on the minds of healthcare professionals for several years. Many covered entities…

Ransomware Alert: Defend Yourself Against WannaCrypt

by Sarah Harvey / December 19, 2022

On Friday May 12th, 2017, a large ransomware attack was launched, known as WannaCrypt (a.k.a. WannaCry), which infected more than 230,000 computers across 150 countries, and counting. This unprecedented cyberattack has left organizations struggling in the aftermath as they try to recover. WannaCrypt demands payment of ransom in bitcoin and has spread in several ways; phishing emails and as a worm on unpatched computers. The attackers responsible for WannaCrypt used…