Compliance Management

As Google launches its Google Health, security experts are concerned that personal medical records are at a greater risk of being breached.

Federal agencies continued to show slight improvement in 2007 in their ability to protect sensitive data.

A new report on the security of the personal information of health care patients indicates that steps need to be taken and rules enforced.

The organization charged with directing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) announced the second version of the credit card protection guidelines is scheduled for an October release.

Despite HIPAA privacy laws, data breaches are not only becoming more common within the medical community, hospitals and medical centers are slow to report the breaches to patients.

Financial institutions should be prepared to deal with security incidents involving physical facilities, network infrastructures, systems, applications, and most importantly, data, says Inno Eroraha, president of NetSecurity Corporation.

Organizations handling credit cards feel pressure building as the deadline for PCI Requirement 6.6 compliance, June 30, 2008, approaches.