Maintaining HIPAA compliance should always be a key area for leaders in the healthcare industry, but as technology continues to evolve, there are numerous factors coming into play that could affect how organizations keep patient data secure....
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The BYOD Audit/Assurance Program helps auditors provide management with an assessment of BYOD policies and procedures, identify internal control and regulatory deficiencies and identify information security control concerns that could affect the reliability, accuracy and security of the enterprise data....
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Donald Trump should elect a cybersecurity ambassador to help keep the US secure, a new report says. The 100-page document highlights areas where the US falls short and calls on the private sector to help hasten the improvement of digital services. President Barack Obama set up the commission in preparation for the new administration. He said its recommendations should be followed within the first 100 days of Mr Trump's presidency. "Now it is time for the next administration to take up t...
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The New Zealand government conducted mass surveillance activities on its citizens despite denying such a project existed, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed....
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Attackers are harnessing the power of the internet, leveraging the proliferation of devices in the ever-expanding internet of things (IoT) to launch terabit-per-second–scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to NETSCOUT’s 2018 Threat Intelligence Report. DDoS attackers represent a wide range of actors with various motivations. While some are malware authors, others are opportunistic criminals taking advantage of affordable services for hire. “They are a bu...
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Nation-state threats continue to pose risks to national security. In an effort to mitigate those attacks, Google continues to improve its security tools to better detect and respond to state-sponsored threats, particularly with regard to protecting political campaigns and local, state and national elections. In “An Update of State-Sponsored Activity” published 23 August, Kent Walker, SVP of Google’s global affairs, wrote that its threat analysis group has been working with its ...
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