Despite stringent regulatory mandates, the healthcare industry has been an avid adopter of new technology. Mobility in particular has proven to be a boon for doctors and other hospital staff. For this reason, looking at IT implementations within healthcare organizations can serve as a good way to le...

Healthcare organizations are frequently victimized by data breaches. Cybercriminals target this sector due to the type of information on record - information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers can be the starting point for a credit card fraud scheme. A recent presentation from consult...

Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...

Evolving technology trends have created numerous information security concerns for many organizations, significant damage can result from non-compliance fines as well as broken customer trust. This places a premium on protecting digital assets with best practice security solutions. InformationWeek c...

Regulation and compliance have had, and continue to, significantly impact data security trends and IT behavior. The following are some of the most instrumental policies and their influence on security operations.Directive 95/46/EC (“Data Protection Directive”)At a European level, sets up a regulator...