The results of a survey conducted recently by HIMSS and Symantec and reported out this week suggest that a majority of healthcare organizations are not yet able to comply with security and privacy requirements and standards,…
Perhaps taking advantage of the increased attention placed on security and privacy issues, including the implementation of new data breach disclosure rules by both HHS and the FTC applicable to personal health information, Senator Patrick Leahy…
In a sharp departure from the more typical agency-level FISMA self-assessments, the internal FISMA audit by the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior reveals serious systemic problems in DOI’s security management, with blame focused…
Members of Congress show no signs of letting up in efforts to revise or reform or extend various information security regulations. Ideas about updating FISMA — particularly from Senators like Olympia Snowe, John Rockefeller, and Tom…
The new federal health information data breach disclosure rules went into effect in September, but as HHS works on finalizing another set of HIPAA rule changes (this time about penalties for HIPAA violations), Mitch Wagner of…
Another article focusing on policies and controls to prevent the use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies in the wake of the Congressional ethics committee report last week contains the best concise statement we’ve seen in a…
Whether or not you believe, as some pundits appear to, that the call for an inquiry into cybersecurity practices in the House of Representatives after the details of an ethics committee inquiry were disclosed is a…
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