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Ongoing Issues With Security, Privacy, Complexity

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Rebecca Herold, host of the podcast show "Data Security and Privacy with the Privacy Professor," weighs in on the state of cybersecurity and privacy education and gives her recommendations on how to remedy the many issues the security community faces today.

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Big Health Data: Top Privacy, Security Considerations

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But along with those efforts come critical privacy and security concerns, says attorney Iliana Peters of Polsinelli. Many healthcare sector entities are undertaking projects involving the collection, analysis and sharing of large volumes of health data.

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FTC Initiates Privacy and Data Security Rule-Making

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Commission Asks for Comment on Link Between Consumer Surveillance and Lax Security U.S. No regulatory outcome is guaranteed, but today's advanced notice of proposed rule-making is a first step to new data security and privacy regulations.

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Assessing the Privacy, Security Risks of Digital Health IT

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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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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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Telehealth and Coronavirus: Privacy, Security Concerns

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But these providers need to carefully consider privacy and security issues as they work to quickly offer these services. To help deal with the coronavirus outbreak, healthcare providers are examining how to implement or expand the use of telehealth services to remotely evaluate and care for patients.

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NIST Report Spotlights Cyber, Privacy Risks in Genomic Data

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A Multitude of Considerations for Entities As Use of Genomic Data Advances The explosion in applications using genomic data - from drug and vaccine development and consumer ancestry testing to law enforcement work - is heightening the need to carefully address critical privacy and security concerns around this sensitive data, government authorities (..)

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