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Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Blog Posts From August 2017
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Blog: Executive Management Guide to Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Your IT Team
Date: August 29, 2017
Title: Executive Management Guide to Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Your IT Team
Summary: Given the tremendous economic and reputational costs of recent cyber attacks, executives are increasingly attempting to better understand the risk to their information systems. They’ve heard about the impact of data breaches on their peer corporations, and they’ve read about the huge fines levied by federal regulatory agencies. They’ve developed an increased sense of urgency to become better educated. ...
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Blog: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Date: August 24, 2017
Title: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Summary: The need to protect patient information from unauthorized disclosure is nothing new for healthcare providers. However, healthcare providers cannot adequately protect the security and integrity of their patients’ information if they do not first know what threats they face. A string of recent enforcement actions and corresponding high-dollar settlements with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demonstrates that the agency takes threat identification seriously....
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Blog: Ransomware and Encryption Attacks
Date: August 15, 2017
Title: Ransomware and Encryption Attacks
Summary: As organizations move towards the efficiencies of a “paperless office,” the very same internet-facing technologies that help create a more efficient and productive workplace can also greatly increase the risk of suffering a significant ransomware or encryption attack....
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Blog: NY Cyber Regs Compliance Deadline Looms for Financial Firms
Date: August 10, 2017
Title: NY Cyber Regs Compliance Deadline Looms for Financial Firms
Summary: Protecting sensitive customer and business information from data thieves is nothing new for the financial industry. But come......