Holistic Risk Management - Third Rock | Complete Cyber Confidence

There are a number of ways to become the subject of an OCR HIPAA audit.  The most unlikely way is to be selected for a random audit and if that happens, go buy a lottery ticket!
Complaints filed by dissatisfied customers and/or disgruntled employees resulted in about 15,000 investigations last year.  Suffer a breach and OCR will be knocking on your door.  As the number and severity of breaches continue to increase, third party...

There are several things a healthcare covered entity or business associate needs to do to avoid HIPAA fines and the possibility of being listed on the wall of shame, but the immediate need is to perform a thorough risk assessment. And that usually means...

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a warning stating that covered entities should expect and prepare to mitigate the damages of breaches as a result of their business associates (BA).  In an article...

Two vulnerabilities have been uncovered by researchers in a open-source Windows utility called 7-Zip. This program provides compression and archiving tools for files. While many of our readers may not know what, or who, 7-Zip is, it is likely that other...