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is-hipaa-about-to-get-some-teeth

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

The healthcare world is abuzz with the news that the Department of Health and Human Services is auditing Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital:

Neither Piedmont nor the HHS has confirmed that the audit was launched, and few details about it have been disclosed publicly. But an HHS document obtained by Computerworld shows that Piedmont officials were presented with a list of 42 items that the agency wanted information on.

Among them were the hospital's policies and procedures on 24 security-related issues, including physical and logical access to systems and data, Internet usage, violations of security rules by employees, and logging and recording of system activities. The document also requested items such as IT and data security organizational charts and lists of the hospital's systems, software and employees, including new hires and terminated workers.

google-research-on-strong-authentication

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Ben Laurie and Eric Sachs from Google's security team have published an article on the Usability of Stronger Authentication Options. This is a very interesting document and it's great to see the large internet players focus on security. Unfortunately, in their list of strong authentication methods they do not include software tokens, which seems to me to be a pretty big oversight. Of course, I'm a bit biased. Here are my thoughts on Ben & Eric's concerns:

google-does-saml-but-has-anyone-done-it-plus

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I see that Google is allowing SAML for Apps for Domains. Anybody test this yet? I hope to get a chance to soon.

google-authentication

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Google released a couple of interesting products (as beta, natch). The first is their hosted email service, which allows enterprises to outsource their mail services to Google.

is-visible-security-needed-for-consumer

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Consumer concerns about about information theft, data breaches and web-based attacks have caused a drop in online commerce activity.

From the article:

"If you look at the regulators like the banking regulators and the credit card associations, they are two years behind the curve," she said. "They finally responded with PCI and FFIEC, and it is definitely improving the security situation, but if they had done this two years ago it would have been in time to prevent this loss."

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