Using Your Risk Analysis

by Sarah Harvey / April 12, 2023

What To Do With Your Completed Risk Analysis Completing a comprehensive HIPAA risk analysis is a big achievement and puts you in rare company…but you’re not done yet. Once you've completed your HIPAA risk analysis, your organization should be asking: What are we doing to do with this risk? Has management reviewed this and agreed? How can we use this information to improve? A mature risk management program doesn’t ask,…

Best Practices for Managing Firewall and Router Security

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

When you look at the threat landscape today and the organizations that have experienced a data breach (Target, Home Depot, Arby’s), they all have a common denominator – they were all compliant. They had been checking the boxes like they were asked to do. So, when it seems that compliance isn’t enough, how can we ensure that we are secure? Organizations today should use these examples as motivation to focus…

Conducting your HIPAA Risk Analysis

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, we posted about the planning process for a HIPAA risk analysis. This process included determining whether the proper resources are available, the importance of defining scope, creating or using ePHI workflows, and compiling asset lists. The next step in the process is to perform the actual risk analysis. Let’s talk about the actual elements for conducting your HIPAA risk analysis and define some common terms…

Conducting Your Risk Analysis

by Sarah Harvey / April 12, 2023

How to Conduct a HIPAA Risk Analysis In this webinar, Mark Hinely will teach the process of determining risks that are common for HIPAA risk considerations.  It’s important that your organization understands the terms related to risk analysis: Vulnerability: flaw or weakness in system security procedures, design, implementation, or internal controls that could be exercised (accidentally triggered or intentionally exploited) and result in a security breach or a violation…

Connectria Hosting’s Compliance Journey with KirkpatrickPrice

by Sarah Harvey / December 19, 2022

Who is Connectria? Founded in 1996, Connectria is a leading provider of cloud hosting and managed services. With customers in over 30 countries around the globe, Connectria ensures the ongoing availability, performance and security of customer applications in the cloud. Connectria’s comprehensive managed services and experience include the widest range of technologies in the industry and are available on a 24/7 basis no matter where customer applications and data reside.…