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surprise-hipaa-audits-on-the-way

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has hired PriceWaterhouseCoopers to conduct surprise audits of hospitals for HIPAA compliance:

Its complaint-driven, says Runyon, noting that Tony Trenkle, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS, last month publicly said the first 10 or so reviews will be at hospitals where CMS received complaints about security.

infoworld-on-how-to-become-a-great-information

Consistency, covering the basics and using metrics Great article for all management, not just information security. When problems crop up in management, it is usually because either we stopped doing some basic thing like cross-department meeting or it could have easily been avoided by implementing some new simple thing.

the-express-scripts-bounty

Now this could be interesting. Express Scripts is offering $1,000,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attacker trying to blackmail them. That is a lot of Ameros.

hsbc-issues-warning-to-180000-regarding-a-security

The WSJ Online is reporting that HSBC has issued warnings to 180,000 of it's customers that a security breach may have resulted in their data being compromised.

how-much-will-a-breach-cost-you-find-out-online

I'm telling you, this internet thing is something. There is now an online calculator - from a company selling cyber-insurance - to help you estimate the cost of a data breach or identity theft data loss scenario . While I am also impressed with java script, I think their data loss archive needs some work.

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