The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out, and the good news is: The number of compromised records is down. The troubling news is: The number of breaches is up. Bryan Sartin, one of the report authors, explains why.
Smartphones are ubiquitous in organizations across industry today. But how secure are these devices -- and what security and liability vulnerabilities do they expose?
Although many organizations are using encryption to protect data on mobile devices, they're often overlooking other important ways to prevent health information breaches, says Terrell Herzig, information security officer at UAB Medicine.
Businesses today need a technology infrastructure that is highly available, runs on a secure network, and is protected against data loss and unauthorized access. A reliable, responsive, and secure infrastructure is critical to business efficiency and growth. A small chink in your technology armor can damage...
Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...
Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...
Think your data is secure? Think again.
If you are sending data over a service provider's network, then you need to know: Current Wide Area Network (WAN) technologies offer no inherent data protection. It's time for you to take matters into your own hands to ensure your data is secure.
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A top concern for most financial institutions is how to add new members and strengthen current customer loyalty, especially when faced with competition from larger institutions and behemoths like Walmart. Read about how Altra Credit Union differentiated themselves with exceptional customer value, and increased their...
The billions of dollars worth of HITECH Act incentives available to hospitals and physicians using electronic health records are serving as a powerful catalyst for information security as well.
A federal judge sentenced a Colorado man to two years in prison for trying to inject malicious code into a Transportation Security Administration computer used to screen for potential terrorists.
Incidents such as the WikiLeaks disclosures and resulting fallout push leaders to redefine their data protection agenda for 2011 and think about their organizations' vulnerabilities.
Delaware has implemented filters that block unencrypted messages containing the numeric pattern of Social Security numbers: three digits, two digits, four digits, state Chief Security Office Elayne Starkey says.
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