Compliance Management

The pressure to move records to an electronic format is stronger than ever, but at the same time the risk and awareness of privacy violations are on the rise.

HIPAA in its current form fails to adequately protect patient data. There is a lack of oversight, guidance and enforcement.

Fueled by continued compliance demands and an evolving threat landscape, global software security revenue totaled $10.4 billion last year, a jump of nearly 20 percent, an analyst firm said Tuesday.

The deadly twisters that ripped through Kansas this week and the historic floods sweeping across the Upper Midwest will soon give rise to donation scams and malicious attacks, the SANS Storm Center warned on Friday.

Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft are partnering on a new pilot program to provide patients with better access to their medical records.

The Department of Homeland Security has named Mischel Kwon, the chief IT security technologist for the U.S. Department of Justice, as the new head of its U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.

Even if vendor security is not on the radar of your regulators or auditors, you may still want to consider how a vendor information security program could help you reach your greater aim of ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your organization's information assets.