Outsourcing Breach Response Lowers Costs
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts
The Ponemon Institute last month released their 5th annual 2009 Annual Study: Cost of Data Breach. This year, the report explored several new areas and came up with some interesting and in some cases surprising conclusions…
How A Security Company Applies Security
By Larry Ketchersid, Chairman and CEO at MediaSourcery
Similar to security assessments, network architecture designs and other projects, a development project, such as this one involves the exchange of confidential data, including in this case, intellectual property designs, requirements documents, test plans, code fragments and road maps. We could have chose to exchange these documents over email, or printed them out and sent them next day parcel post. Instead, we ate our own dogfood and utilized IslandPKI encrypted document and message transfer…
Consider Outsourcing Your Network Security
By Kenneth Leeser, President, Kaliber Data Security and Compliance
The number and types of external threats to a network are growing exponentially, and unless a company has a dedicated and highly specialized team devoted to network security, it’s hard to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape. After all, the threats of the Internet are the same for every company regardless of its size.
GAPP: Generally Accepted Privacy Principles
By Kenneth Leeser, President, Kaliber Data Security and Compliance
The privacy principles and criteria are founded on key concepts from significant local, national, and international privacy laws, regulations, guidelines, and good business practices. By using GAPP, organizations can proactively address the significant challenges that they face in establishing and managing their privacy programs and risks from a business perspective. The following are the 10 generally accepted privacy principles…
On Managing Your Own Health Records
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts
Microsoft HealthVault is designed to let us collect, store, and share health information critical to our family’s well-being and Google Health allows us to organize our health information all in one place, gather our medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies, and share our information securely with a family member, doctors or caregiver. For now, I probably won’t start trusting my medical history to either Microsoft or Google…
Data Security Regulations Require Action
By Kenneth Leeser, President, Kaliber Data Security and Compliance
This is a strong acknowledgment that proper data security programs not only involve hardening the perimeter with firewalls, disk encryption, and Intrusion Prevention Systems, they must also include the implementation of appropriate employee policy and procedures, training and enforcement…
Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud
By Dwayne Melancon, Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development
Before vast herds of businesses go running to the cloud, they will want to see that others have done it an not been burned. This is classic bell curve stuff - a few will do it, but it will be a while before the majority of the IT organizations use the cloud in any significant way.
Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts
The 2009 ITRC Breach Report had captured numerous healthcare data breaches since the September 23rd effective date for the HITECH Act. So, I’m perplexed as to why there aren’t any data breaches over 500 individuals yet listed by HHS. Surprisingly, there is nothing there.
HITECH Act and Protecting Health Privacy
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts
These new regulations come at a time when healthcare breaches are on the rise; according to the 2009 ITRC Breach Stats Report healthcare breaches account for over 66 percent of all records breached this year, up from 20 percent in 2008. In fact, some of the largest names in healthcare suffered data breaches.
Internal Clouds Are More Than Just VMware
By Dwayne Melancon, Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development
Many internal clouds will run on the back of VMware, but not all, and VMware alone will not satisfy all of the business’s requirements for running an effective internal cloud. Why not? I can think of several reasons…
