Posts Tagged ‘ Data Breach Notification ’

Medical Data Breaches: A Source of Chronic Pain

Tweet With over 870,000 medical records exposed in data breaches in just the first quarter of 2013, medical data breaches have become a source of chronic pain for healthcare organizations   Adding to this complexity is the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule.  For additional resources to help you accelerate your healthcare data breach resolution, click the image below. Tweet[ READ MORE ]

What’s In Your Data Breach Toolbox?

Tweet Our latest Ponemon Institute study suggests many companies are not adequately prepared to mitigate damages associated with a data breach. If you find your organization represented in the summary-findings below, click the image to download the study. Tweet[ READ MORE ]

Cyber security: a key topic at 2013 HCCA Conference

Tweet The 17th annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute Conference took place in National Harbor, MD and was attended by healthcare personnel and data protection and security professionals.  Key topics covered in various panels related to cyber security issues including medical identity theft, data breaches and patient health information (PHI) protection as dictated [...][ READ MORE ]

Tips to save your reputation following a big data breach

Tweet The advent of big data and consequently, the task of collecting and analyzing it, can reap many benefits for organizations looking for deeper insight. We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily1 in all aspects of everyday life.  Organizations can use this data to increase productivity, provide more value to customers, or patients and [...][ READ MORE ]

Secure your outsourcing practices to prevent data breaches

Tweet Outsourcing can be risky business. The Ponemon Institute reports that 65% of companies who outsourced work to a vendor have had a data breach involving consumer data and 64% say it has happened more than once.  Their study, Securing Outsourced Consumer Data, sponsored by Experian® Data Breach Resolution also found that the most common [...][ READ MORE ]

Cyber Security Act of 2012 dies as an executive order is born

Tweet The flickering hope that Congress would pass the Cyber Security Act of 2012 which addressed issues of national cyber security during its current lame duck session has been extinguished as the bill failed in a 51-47 vote.  (In order to pass, the bill needed 60 votes.)  The Defense Department and other key federal agencies [...][ READ MORE ]

7 Things you should think about when you audit your response plan

Tweet Now that your data breach response plan is in place and you’re confident that your company is safeguarded from malicious  data breach attempts, what can possibly be still the biggest threat to your data breach protection plan?  Answer: the plan itself. All the planning and preparation in the world won’t protect your business from [...][ READ MORE ]

Federal breach notice: A view worth the climb?

Working for a company that navigates 46 different state breach notice laws and a plethora of sector based federal breach notice laws, I’m often asked what I think the likelihood is that the Federal Government will pass a comprehensive data breach notification law that supersedes all the state laws. [ READ MORE ]

Connecticut gets serious about breach reporting

Tweet Get ready, Connecticut. A new data breach law is now in effect that brings the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) into the reporting loop. The new law requires notifying the OAG by email no later than when affected consumers are notified. Previously, businesses were only required to report a breach to consumers. Yet [...][ READ MORE ]

U.S. beats Germany, U.K. and France when it comes to data breach notification costs, but why?

Tweet The U.S. tops Germany, the U.K. and France when it comes to data breach notification costs. In other words, it costs American companies more to notify people of a data breach when their personal information is lost or stolen. The Ponemon Institute, which recently conducted a global data breach study, found that it cost [...][ READ MORE ]