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The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making Today is World Password Day. Yes, I’m serious, and yes, apparently a day is set aside to commemorate just about anything. However, I didn’t see any Happy World Password Day cards at the store yesterday, so I’m going to assume that the only folks who know […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk Ransomware is everywhere. I’ve talked at length about the ransomware attacks that have literally shut down health care computer networks. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. A TV station out of Oklahoma reported the rise in ransomware attacks targeting police departments, and PC World told […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators Are we on the edge of an explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT)? It appears so, and it seems like organizations are serious about securing the IoT, according to new Gartner research. According to ZDNet, Gartner predicts that: global spending on security for the Internet of Things […]

6 Cyber Secrets Setting You Up for Betrayal I was invited to sit in on the reveal of the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which was formally released today. In the past, the DBIR had some real groundbreaking findings; I believe it was the DBIR that showed just how serious the insider threat […]

5 Ways to Keep Cybersecurity on Track While on Vacation Cybercriminals are on a mission. They want to take advantage of point of sale (PoS) technology as much as possible before it totally switches over to chip technology. Even though the EMV card payment system came online late last year, many businesses and credit card […]

Security Threats: 5 Common Network Blind Spots The fight between Apple and the FBI brought the concept of using backdoors to break encryption to the mainstream. The initial battle may have ended with the FBI hiring someone to hack into the phone (and I have to ask – was anyone surprised that an outside hacker […]

Security Threats: 5 Common Network Blind Spots Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of the digital world, and as such, API security needs to be tight. However, we have seen recently just how lax API security has been. The Nissan Leaf story may have been the most vivid example of API security failure, but […]

What Does 2016 Hold for the Evolving Security Landscape? I read today that President Obama has created a cybersecurity panel that, according to Engadget, is tasked to: Raise the level of cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors, deter, disrupt, and interfere with malicious cyber activity aimed at the U.S. or its allies and […]

Security Threats: 5 Common Network Blind Spots As if the health care industry isn’t having enough security problems, is it also at risk for cyber terrorism? The Ohio-based Times Reporter characterized the recent attacks on medical facilities as cyber terrorism. I’m not sure I’d go quite that far, yet. However, a Thycotic survey commissioned at […]

Study Pinpoints IT Security’s Top Data Security Concerns The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put together a database of health care breaches that affected 500 or more individuals. The first date in the database is October 21, 2009, a breach caused by the theft of paper files or films. There are more than […]

The Best Security Advice from Leading Experts My plan today was to continue my conversation about security in the health care industry and discuss some new research released this week. That conversation will have to pick up next week because I want to address the security implications of a major news story. By now, you […]

Health Care Data Breaches: 5 Tips for Protecting Sensitive Information Security within the health care industry continues to get worse. Health care has endured dozens of breaches in hospitals and insurance offices that put medical and other personal information of patients at risk. More recently, medical facilities have been the target of ransomware attacks that […]