A Real World Breach – Why HIPAA Compliance Matters
Developing and implementing a HIPAA compliance plan can often seem like preparing for a tornado on a sunny day. You’ve never had a real-world breach before and you don’t foresee an OCR audit anytime in the near future. However, as one of our clients recently...
The Value of Healthcare Data
The rising number of healthcare hacks demonstrates that healthcare data has tremendous value in the wrong hands. Some experts call 2015 “the year of the healthcare hack.” This year brought us some of the largest hacks to date, like: Premera Blue Cross — 11...
What is a Zero-Day Security Flaw?
As you have been developing, updating and improving your HIPAA Security Plan, you have probably come across the term zero-day. To most IT departments this is a very common term; for the rest of us not only may it be new, but the words that come after it can sound...
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Internet Explorer NOW and Forever
Upgrading software is a pain! Updates seem to pop up at the most inopportune time. You have to budget time to download the patch and then your system is out of commission for 30 minutes to an hour, and what do you get? Another patch. How important are those patches...