Keeping your security system up-to-date is highly crucial. Hence it is always a good idea to partner with a security service vendor, who can help fulfill your security needs. In this context, it is important to understand that selecting a suitable vendor is just as significant as choosing the right software tools with the right…
Internet has created a world without boundaries. With this, the threat landscape has also changed and securing the information has become the need of the hour. Identifying security threats and finding counter measures to mitigate these threats is equally demanding. Outbound attacks, virus, and botnets have become very common. Apart from this, data leakage, data…
Just a week after Health Net faced penalty for a major security breach, another similar incident has been reported by the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth Massachusetts, USA. Authorities say that computer files containing personal information of nearly 800,000 people were lost when they were being shipped to a contractor for destruction. Information on the…
The first action by a state Attorney General for violation of HIPAA (after HITECH authorized State Attorneys General to enforce HIPAA) has resulted in an unprecedented money settlement with the AG’s office. The case involved unreported loss of a compact disk by Health Net containing private medical records, social security numbers and financial information. While…
You must have read the news about a new security standard for SMBs- Visa changes rules for SMBs: be PCI DSS compliant or face penalties– Primarily focusing on safeguarding customers_blank’ confidential data after making payment using a credit card, this new security standard requires SMBs accepting credit/ debit card payments to enroll into the PCI…
Did you know : Approximately 500 million records containing personal identifying information of United States residents stored in government and corporate databases was either lost or stolen in the last 5 years? Various other corporations lost US$1 Trillion worldwide as a result of data loss, accidental or malicious? Costs from the largest computer data breach…
