Heartbleed and HIPAA
On April 7th, the news hit the wire that there is a serious bug in the OpenSSL program – one of the most popular cryptography programs out there. This bug allowed information normally protected by an SSL/TLS license (a type of encryption) to be compromised. The...
Is it a breach, or not?
This week we had an interesting question come in. One of our clients was copied by a general agent in a response to an application for health insurance. This message contained ePHI that wasn’t encrypted. Was it a breach? What does that mean for the agents? Does the...
Happy Spring!
We’ve been having some lovely spots of weather here, well minus ice, and a Nor’easter is projected this week… It must mean that spring is in the air! With that in mind, it’s time for a little house cleaning. When was the last time you changed your passwords? You...