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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Fund Managers Targeted in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Data Matters

These controls include the following: Implement multifactor authentication: Multifactor authentication is widely lauded as the most effective control to detect and prevent unauthorized access. Insurance: The firm should communicate with its insurance company and review policy coverage. standard login passwords).

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Fund Managers Targeted in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Data Matters

These controls include the following: Implement multifactor authentication: Multifactor authentication is widely lauded as the most effective control to detect and prevent unauthorized access. Insurance: The firm should communicate with its insurance company and review policy coverage. standard login passwords).

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Multi-Factor Authentication Best Practices & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

For example, customers might want to change passwords for other sites or check their bank account for signs of fraud. California man Jay Brodsky brought a class-action suit against Apple , claiming that iPhone and Mac users are being forced into time-consuming two-factor authentication. Unsurprisingly, the judge dismissed the case.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m challenging the notion of convenience by using our cars as an example. Lacking any formal computer training.