Government info security news, training, education - GovInfoSecurity
WEBGovInfoSecurity.com covers the latest news, laws, regulations and directives related to government information security, focusing on the White House's cybersecurity initiatives, the latest legislative efforts in Congress, as well as thought leadership from …
NIST's 7-Step Contingency Planning Process - GovInfoSecurity
WEBJun 8, 2010 · NIST on Monday issued revised guidance that defines a seven-step contingency planning process that federal agencies and other organizations in fields such as healthcare and banking can use to develop and maintain a viable interim recovery program for their information systems. The National Institute of Standards and Technology designed the ...
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WEBAnna Delaney • September 13, 2024. In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the fallout from the CrowdStrike global IT outage on endpoint security tools, Mastercard's monumental acquisition of Recorded Future to bolster its cybersecurity portfolio, and the latest efforts by U.S. officials to secure the 2024 election.
HHS Warns of Threats to Electronic Health Records - GovInfoSecurity
WEBFeb 18, 2022 · The top threats to EMRs and EHRs include phishing attacks, ransomware and other malware attacks, encryption "blind spots," cloud threats and employees, HHS says. To better protect against phishing attacks, HHS recommends educating healthcare professionals, including training them to not click links within emails and …
FBI's Elvis Chan on Election Cybersecurity - GovInfoSecurity
WEBMar 6, 2020 · Elvis Chan is one of the FBI's foremost experts on election cybersecurity. And as the U.S. marches toward the November presidential election, he is laser-focused on protecting the vote from foreign influence. See Also: Corelight's Brian Dye on NDR's Role in Defeating Ransomware. In a video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSA ...
Beyond FISMA: State Dept.'s Next Gen Metric - GovInfoSecurity
WEBFISMA, Standards, Regulations & Compliance. Beyond FISMA: State Dept.'s Next Gen Metric - Interview with John Streufert, State Department Deputy CIO and CISO Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • July 2, 2009 10 Minutes
Malware Breach Affects 1.2 Million Medical Center Patients
WEBJun 27, 2022 · Before joining ISMG in 2012, she was a reporter at InformationWeek magazine and news site and played a lead role in the launch of InformationWeek's healthcare IT media site. A malware incident involving exfiltration of data has affected more than 1.24 million patients of Texas-based Baptist …
DOJ: Healthcare at Center of Biggest US Fraud Cases in 2021
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · In a statement released Tuesday, the Justice Department says that healthcare fraud was by far the leading source of the False Claims Act settlements and judgments it collected for fiscal 2021, which ended Sept. 30, 2021. More than $5 billion of the $5.6 billion collected in federal false claims and fraud cases involved healthcare industry ...
Lawsuits in Wake of MCG Health Data Breach Start Piling Up
WEBJun 24, 2022 · Data breach attorneys are flooding courts with proposed federal class action lawsuits against MCG Health after the company disclosed a data breach affecting up to 1.1 million individuals.. See Also: Alleviating Compliance Pain Points in the Cloud Era As of Friday, at least four lawsuits with similar allegations stemming from a just-revealed 2020 breach have been filed against the clinical ...
HIPAA Privacy Rule Modified for Gun Background Checks
WEBJan 5, 2016 · McGee is executive editor of Information Security Media Group's HealthcareInfoSecurity.com media site. She has about 30 years of IT journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues for …