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Does Your Audit Board Know How to Review Cyber Security Ops? Cyber security is on everyone’s mind these days. Keeping abreast of the latest in cyber crime and how it affects your business is an increasingly difficult job. Your IT department can not do it alone. They need the board’s commitment to cyber security efforts…

The Hack Heard Around the World It was the hack that made cyber security an international story. Sony Pictures Entertainment was attacked just before Thanksgiving in 2014. Their systems were breached, data was stolen, and a treasure trove of damaging and embarrassing company emails was released to the public over the next few months. Sure…

Hospitals Are Just As Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks When a company’s systems are hacked, it can have serious financial ramifications. When a hospital falls prey to a cyber attack, it can have devastating consequences to its patients as well. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was just attacked and it’s interfering with their day-to-day operations. Staff at…

In the age of digital information, which we certainly are in, it is vital that all medical practices employ suitable best practices and procedures to ensure data privacy. The risk is just too high to ignore these practices. The last thing that your patients should worry about is their health information falling into the hands of…

In the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries, people’s lives are literally in the hands of others. However, it is not enough to protect only a patient’s physical well-being, their patient information and identity must be protected as well. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, sets rules and standards for maintaining the privacy and confidentiality…

Risk Compliance “In the wake of several well-publicized corporate scandals about 15 years ago – Enron and WorldCom, to name two – and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, organizations that must adhere to regulations for data security, financial accountability and consumer privacy can’t do without someone making sure internal processes are being…

The financial impact of risk dominates industry concern and re-emerges as a challenge for security systems alike. The cost of global cyber-crime estimates extremely high, with the unfair loss of industries losing their reputation. Attempting to get back into the good graces of customers and clients after experiencing such a harrowing breach requires a new approach and…

Regulatory compliance. Two words that when used together can inspire anxiety and confusion from the boardroom to the factory floor. With today’s constantly changing regulatory landscape, it is no wonder that the term provokes so much distress for modern business leaders. So how can businesses and industries stay on top of their regulatory compliance requirements…

“The 50 biggest retail brands in the US were now hunting through their internal corporate networks to see if they had been infected by the “highly sophisticated” Modpos malware, said iSight senior director Stephen Ward.The modular malware could lurk unseen on point-of-sale equipment, said Mr Ward, and sought to scoop up payment-card data during the…