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Healthcare landing page SEO: HIPAA COMPLIANCE - 5 Page title: HIPAA Compliance Endpoint Security How Visibility, Control & Automated Response Helps Healthcare Organizations Compensate for BYOD and IoT security Gaps The rise in IoT, BYOD and mobile devices, has made network endpoints one of the most vulnerable security gaps in most networks. What makes the healthcare industry unique, is its need to secure information while maintaining the delicate balance between patient privacy and the need…

Security is provided for the people’s protection, but is it taking away the freedom from the citizens? In economics, one will study the opportunity cost of each decision made. An opportunity cost is that “ Most desirable alternative given up for the decision”, which is freedom in this case. The world is so desperate for protection, they don’t realize they are giving up their freedom. In economic class, we learn that when one product is increasing, the other product decreases. Life revolves…

from the homeland security assessment that was performed by the designated assessment teams. These assessment scores are derived from information outlined, and based on the Baldrige Criteria for homeland security. The focus of the scores from the Summary of Assessment Items is to determine where an organization’s strengths and weaknesses lie in the area of homeland security preparedness. The scores from the Summary of Scores are transferred to the Hierarchy of Homeland Security Assessment Needs…

In today’s world, US citizens have to be very cautious. I find myself being paranoid about every little thing; the people around me, Internet scams, etc. We have state of the art technology and we can get away with crazy stuff sometimes. I see it in the news all the time; “internet threats” from foreign countries, text messages about “bombing monuments”, and odd “code” language from American citizens. Because of technology, there is a form of communication that can cause horrific events. This is…

Figure 6 shows Internal Security settings that were not set as high as they might have been to aide in threats that require a human response. Lesson 7: Invest in good technological defenses, but do not under invest in people who will be operating this equipment. Another, related lesson learned here is the need to strive to be excellent, rather than average. This stems from the view that we had taken during many simulation results that we were still doing "pretty good" when looked at in the…

associate screening, insider employee theft, and failure to update information security methods (Matwyshyn, 2009, p. 584). A breach incident is the unauthorized access to confidential or sensitive information which can result in the compromise or probable compromise of this data. This Information which could be confidential, protected, or sensitive can include personal identity information, health information, intellectual property or professional trade secrets of an organization, and…

victims amounted to $18,660, and in a few cases exceeded to $100,000 (p.50), for reimbursement services, legal fees, and identity protection services. The impact of medical identity theft on healthcare providers, insurance companies, and local and national agencies are also huge and accounts for legal, financial, and public image…

finding an article using a simple google search is difficult, because you will never know if the article you are looking at is spreading misinformation, biased views, or even plagiarism. On a controversial issue such as the NSA, (National Security Agency) a government agency created to conduct surveillance on people, the issue of misinformation and bias becomes relevant in an abundance of sources checked. The first website that appears when you do a normal Google search for ‘NSA spying issue’…

October is the designated "National Cybersecurity Awareness Month," in the United States and Canada, to educate and engage the community, from government agencies, private enterprise to external audiences, about the need to protect against emerging cyber threats. Today, we need to use Internet more than ever, to do everything from shopping, banking, to socializing, and in this interconnected world, we are constantly sharing sensitive information, which cyber criminals are always on the lookout…

I was completely exhausted as my feet ached with pain from standing. After seeing twenty plus patients with Dr. Martin Christensen, I relished the brief period of time between patients in which I was aloud to sit. However, Dr. Christensen was still running on all cylinders, just as he had earlier that morning. In between cases, Dr. Christensen had just enough time to take a sip of coffee before handing me his spare stethoscope and blistering down the hallway to see his next patient. As soon as…