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HIPAA Compliance & the Role of Enterprise Information Archiving

Hanzo Learning Center

Most people have heard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), so it’s not surprising that companies dealing with digital health information will have to be HIPAA compliant. To do so, any protected health information (PHI) must be kept confidential, secure, and available when being stored or transmitted.

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Off-Site Storage for Insurance Companies

Armstrong Archives

Your insurance company has been collecting and storing consumer data for as long as it’s been in business. That information is vital to your everyday operation, and it’s vulnerable to security breech. Many companies look to off-site storage for an affordable, secure solution. What Records Need Management.

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A guide to the GDPR for insurance companies

IT Governance

A report published by research and consultancy company Celent highlights the challenges that the GDPR presents to insurers. Insurers are data controllers: a person, public authority, agency or body that determines the purpose of processing personal data. Steps insurers should take to become GDPR compliant.

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Legendary Help: Helping Travelers Stay Safe

Rocket Software

Travel insurance can give travelers some assurance that, if something does go wrong, they have resources that can help them receive medical attention, stay safe, and return home. . In order to provide the best possible experience, the insurance provider needed to upgrade their existing IT systems. . The Solution: Rocket ® EOS 360.

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Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm

Krebs on Security

based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various dental offices across the United States. West Allis, Wis.-based

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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors

Security Affairs

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. What was leaked? Drug prescription listings).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.