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Why Your Healthcare Facility Needs HIPAA Security Risk Assessments
As a healthcare organization, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, lies at the heart of everything you do. After all, in this day and age, you’re doing more than just setting bones or running diagnostic tests. Healthcare providers collect a huge quantity of data about their patients in order to serve them better. Unfortunately, this private information is also a highly lucrative target for thieves. And if your organization isn’t protecting that d
Vendor Management: An Increasingly Critical Issue in Financial Services
Pop quiz: what motivates data breaches? Money? Espionage? A disgruntled employee? A competitor looking for an edge? Something else entirely? As it turns out, according to a data breach report by Verizon, 71% of data breach cases were financially driven, whereas only 21% were the result of corporate espionage. Think about it: financial institutions deal with huge datasets related to an individual’s personal finances, which makes that data quite lucrative for a criminal to acqu