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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem’s data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Since 2003, there have been over 331,100 complaints that were handled by the Office for Civil Rights. Strong encryption methods for data should be used, and multi-factor authentication will add even another layer of security. Hackers can access sensitive patient records and this is a huge breach of HIPAA rules.

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Transition to Electronic Government: Signs of the Time

Preservica

DEG didn’t survive the 2003 change in administration and its core functions were re-absorbed back into the Department of Administration technology divisions. If you’re doing any of those things, you need to be finding a way to document and keep those records for request.”.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

The CEH certification from the EC-Council was introduced in 2003 and is now in version 11. Those who pursue an in-depth technical education in all areas of information security are the target audience for the GSE certification.” As of mid-2022, the cost is $749 USD. CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. My first tutorial series on ARM Assembly Basics is finally finished. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

And it gives them the ability to do so much younger in life than many others do and with much less formal education; I care much more about skills than degrees in tech people, but my doctor / lawyer / pilot better have a heap of formal qualifications from many years of study behind them! Kylie and I started investing while we were young.

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SHARED INTEL: How digital certificates could supply secure identities for enterprise blockchains

The Last Watchdog

Hojjati outlined how digital certificates – and the long-establish public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption and authentication framework — could be the very thing to validate the identities of both companies and individuals in a much more granular way, something that will be needed as blockchain systems take root.