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People Make Your Business Run

September 2, 2020 • Published by
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Who would have ever thought that in 2020, we would have had to execute a disaster recovery plan because of a pandemic on an international scale? I am sure most organizations planned for the technology aspect of an outage as well as the ability to meet SLAs and recovery point expectations. But did you plan for the loss of your staff?

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What is Your Business’s “Security Maturity”?

August 18, 2020 • Published by

Any parent with more than one child understands that maturity does not necessarily have a direct relationship with age. Every person is unique in their maturation process and matures at their own pace. (And anyone with teen and pre-teen boys may be asking, “What is maturity and how can my boys get some?”) The same can be applied to your business.

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HIPAA Compliance and the Million Dollar Laptop

August 14, 2020 • Published by
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I must admit that when I sat down to write this blog post I felt a bit silly writing out the title “The Million Dollar Laptop.” This is not a post about a wildly overpriced and new, barely changed, or updated piece of tech that Apple is releasing, or some exorbitant gaming laptop that you are hoping to purchase to play Fortnite or Minecraft. No, this is about the simple neglect of a lost device. Neglect that cost a healthcare organization $1,040,000.00.

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Building Healthcare Data Security into Your HIPAA Compliance

July 14, 2020 • Published by
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In the world of healthcare, like any business environment, there is an important difference between being secure and being compliant. Sure, healthcare data security and HIPAA compliance share similarities, but one does not equal the other. Here’s how to build healthcare data security into your HIPAA compliance.

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Merchant Acquiring Trends: The New “Scalpel Approach” to Security and Compliance

July 8, 2020 • Published by
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There is a fine line being walked in the merchant acquiring and payments space. As both the primary players and the smaller providers know, merchants’ security threat landscape continues to shift and expand at a rapid pace. Guiding merchants down the path of implementing security protocols to protect the merchant, and mitigating breach risk for the processor, can be challenging. We see acquirers meeting this challenge through what I call a “scalpel approach.”

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The Current Small Business Threat Landscape

May 17, 2020 • Published by
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It struck me recently that there are interesting parallels for a business trying to deal with all the shots coming out of COVID-19, both early on and over time. They were fast and furious at the beginning; I am sure we all agree. But what does the small business threat landscape look like now?

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How to Identify Your Company’s Security Risk

May 13, 2020 • Published by

Individuals in the security industry often comment that the foundation of any company’s security program is its policy and procedures. I am not saying they are incorrect; however, I do not believe they see the big picture. Policy and procedures look to address risk, but they do not define it. Therefore, the foundation of any security program is formed by the activities around risk identification.

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What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About Preventing a Security Pandemic?

May 1, 2020 • Published by
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We can learn a lot from the same protective measures that are working to defeat this insidious coronavirus enemy. The parallels are striking between the social and professional measures that are swiftly becoming business-as-usual, and the security measures that should have been business-as-usual all along. Now may be the perfect time to remind ourselves of a few.

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