HIPAA has a variety of requirements that healthcare providers should be aware regarding data security and data breach response. Below are some common questions and responses: What are HIPAA requirements with regard to plans for data loss & recovery? Providers are required to establish a contingency plan to deal with emergencies or events that impact [...]
A recent report from Mandiant Corporation in Alexandria, Virginia describes what they believe to be an ongoing cyber espionage campaign originating from the Chinese government’s People’s Liberation Army, Unit 61398. Based upon their data breach investigations, this unit dubbed APT1, for Advanced Persistent Threat 1, has spanned more than 5 years, utilizes servers in at least a dozen countries [...]
This week, Mandiant, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm released an extensive report accusing a Chinese military unit of hundreds of attacks on American businesses in search of intellectual property. Some of the targets included The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Twitter, Facebook, and most recently, Apple. Each of these companies were [...]
If your organization handles customer transactions via payment cards, you’ve likely heard of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and its goal to protect against data breaches. The PCI DSS is a set of technical and operational standards established for businesses that handle cardholder information for debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and [...]
We all hear lots of talk about data breach response and data breach response planning, but many times a discussion of what these activities are and why they’re important is missing. Data breach response is the act of responding to any real or potential event wherein your organization’s critical data has been exposed to an [...]
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