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Assessing the Privacy, Security Risks of Digital Health IT

Data Breach Today

A new assessment framework aims to help patients, healthcare providers and others examine the various privacy, security and other risks of digital health technologies, says Tim Andrews of the nonprofit Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications, which co-developed the framework.

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Data Privacy: Why It Matters To The Rest Of Us

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy: Why It Matters To The Rest Of Us madhav Mon, 01/22/2024 - 04:47 It seems that there are no limits to the number of data breaches. What most people worry about is the data that the company stored about them and the potential personal impact this can have; data privacy is what matters to us. All are equally viable targets.

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Proposed Health IT Certification Rules Target AI, Privacy

Data Breach Today

HHS Rules Aimed at Beefing Up Health IT Systems, Patient Data Privacy, Security Federal regulators have issued new rules aimed at securing certified healthcare software, helping patients decide which records to keep private, and protecting data used by AI and predictive tools.

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GUEST ESSAY: The key differences between ‘information privacy’ vs. ‘information security’

The Last Watchdog

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. They take all this private information, and then they sell it.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” It takes an organizational mindset which realizes that data privacy and security is a continuous, evolving process, as opposed to a “fire-and-forget” set of steps.

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DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

WIRED Threat Level

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. However, with technology innovation comes new risks, security challenges and threats.