Compliance Management

Despite regulations mandating protection of health care records, more than half of American hospitals fail to take appropriate steps to safeguard the privacy of patients, according to a new survey of health care IT security professionals.

The Federal Trade Commission contends that ChoicePoint did not properly implement security improvements after its milestone 2005 data breach.

In an apparent surprise move, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rebuffed a bill that would have updated the 2003 landmark California data breach notification law.

A bill now under consideration by the U.S. House requires peer-to-peer providers to tell users when they are sharing files that all can see.

Visa has taken a leading role in establishing best practices for end-to-end encryption implementation.

A leaked document contained the names, Social Security numbers, home phone numbers and home addresses of 463 soldiers.

The DHS has green-lighted the hiring of up to 1,000 cybersecurity workers as a means of protecting the nation's federally owned systems.

Merchants, desiring an easier path to PCI compliance, may soon be encouraged to consider a number of nascent technologies that can help protect cardholder data.