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Article HIPAA

HIPAA: Common Violations and How to Avoid Them

Failure to comply with HIPAA can lead to significant financial penalties. Here are a few of the more common (and preventable!) incidents that can lead to breaches of protected health care information.

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Article Healthcare

Lessons Learned from 2018 Healthcare Data Breaches

There were 503 healthcare data breaches reported in 2018, with over 15 million healthcare records exposed.

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Infographic Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Checklist

Following these cybersecurity best practices can significantly reduce the risk of becoming a victim of a security breach.

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Article Cybersecurity

MFA on Campus

An analysis of recent breaches will show that if there had been additional authentication factors, many of the breaches probably wouldn’t have happened.

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Article Compliance

Social Media – Defining Acceptable Use on Campus

Should employees be banned from accessing social media sites while at work? Should you be keeping track of what staff and faculty are posting and tweeting? Are they able to freely post anything on their social networks? What if it is information that pertains to your organization?

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Article NIST Framework

NIST SP 800-171 Framework Series: Access Control

Who has access, or rather who should have access, to your organizational systems and data? Organizations that handle personally identifiable information or other sensitive information types must take extra steps to ensure access to that information is closely controlled.

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Visitor Management

Social engineering attacks target unsuspecting staff and continue to be one of the most successful techniques for gaining access to sensitive systems and information. By claiming to be an employee or vendor with official-looking credentials, criminals can coax information from employees or gain physical access to systems.

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Article Cybersecurity

320 Universities Targeted in Global Attack

In March, Iranian Hackers from the Mabna Institute were charged with launching attacks targeting universities, large US companies, and government agencies, and stealing information including academic research in technology, medicine, and other sciences valued at over $3.4 billion.

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Article PCI DSS

Structuring your Compliance and Security Team

How do you go about structuring your compliance and security team and who needs to be involved? Assembling a team responsible for developing goals, identifying relevant departments, and maintaining communication with the rest of the campus community is an essential component.

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