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Although recent media attention has been focused on the rising threat of state-backed cyber espionage, financially motivated criminals still compromise the majority of threats to business data security. Verizon's recent "2013 Data Breach Investigations Report" found that retailers are especially vul...
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Recent efforts by the federal government to improve medical patient information protection policies with a series of mandates and regulations has had a positive effect on the healthcare industry. Hospital administrations that fail to comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability A...
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One of the early falsehoods levied against the cloud was that it presented a far greater risk to data security than an on-premises solution. Many studies conducted since then have disproved that myth. A recent report on network security concluded that cloud services are no less secure...
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Healthcare providers are held to some of the strictest data security standards of all, with both regulators and patients expecting flawless protection. As industry activities expand to include a wider variety of endpoints and collaborators, data encryption software continues to be an investment whic...
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With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recent release of the Final Rule regarding the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, medical practitioners are facing a September 23, 2013 deadline&nb...
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