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Telehealth Hazard? HHS Loosens HIPAA Standards for Telemedicine

Adam Levin

While the transition to remote appointments may help flatten the curve of Covid-19 cases and provide much-needed relief to medical professionals, it does create a new set of cybersecurity concerns, especially regarding compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ).

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance

CGI

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

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U.S. and Foreign Cybersecurity and Intelligence Agencies Recommend Measures to Counteract Threat of Russian Cyberattacks

Data Matters

The advisory was promptly endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (“GCHQ”), a UK intelligence agency. Create, Maintain, and Exercise a Cyber Incident Response, Resilience, and Continuity of Operations Plan.

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FBI: Millions in Losses resulted from attacks against Healthcare payment processors

Security Affairs

Advise all employees to exercise caution while revealing sensitive information such as login credentials through phone or web communications. Update or draft an incident response plan, in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security rules.

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How to Develop an Incident Response Plan

eSecurity Planet

Be in-line with insurance policies. Contingencies for likely communication issues (internet or phone disruption, email server crippling, etc.), Be in-line with insurance policies. Insurance policies can also heavily influence how we respond to an incident—particularly cybersecurity. Document contingencies. Test your plan.

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CNIL Fines Two Companies of the Carrefour Group €3.05 Million for GDPR and Cookie Violations

Hunton Privacy

The group has diversified its activities into the banking and insurance, travel agency and e-commerce sectors. Between June 8, 2018 and April 6, 2019, the CNIL received 15 complaints from individuals relating to the exercise of their data protection rights with affiliates of the Carrefour Group. and carrefour-banque.fr

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