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Information Security vs Cyber Security: The Difference

IT Governance

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. The second sub-category of information security relates to the protection electronic information. Cyber security is a particular type of information security that focuses on the protection of electronic data.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. For example, if a hospital’s computer system isn’t regularly updated, it can be more vulnerable to security and cyber attacks.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. And part of the information system would have been encrypted.” Sopra Steria is a member of France’s Cyber Campus , a French initiative to spread cybersecurity awareness, training, and product sales.

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Three Things to Consider When Moving to the Cloud

eDiscovery Daily

Cloud computing is trending today, and for good reasons. Migrating legacy systems to a cloud computing solution saves a company time rolling out new software and training. Cloud solutions provide data encryption, regular automatic backups, and speedy data recovery. By: Kyle Taylor.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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5 things to know: IBM Cloud’s mission to accelerate innovation for clients

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM also recently unveiled watsonx , our next-generation AI and data platform to help enterprises train, validate and deploy AI models. These capabilities are especially critical for machine learning , artificial intelligence , simulation and other high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

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