Too many healthcare providers fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required under HIPAA as well as the HITECH Act, says security consultant Kate Borten, president of The ...

Regardless of their political beliefs, Americans want to prevent another terrorist attack from occur­ring in the United States. In the face of increasingly diffuse threats and adversaries ...

In 2017, the Security Leadership Research Institute (the Security Executive Council’s research arm) asked security practitioners to choose from a list of which risk-related activities their security ...

I’m forever reinventing the wheel, and this time around, I’m focusing my efforts on the oh so exciting field of risk assessment. In the process, I try to put aside conventional wisdom and cultivate ...

Businesses must convince customers their personal data is safe. Run a cybersecurity risk assessment to protect company and customer data.

ITRA covers Sections 2 and 5 of the Security Standard for the Solutions Life Cycle Management (SLCM) process. You can find a link to the Security Standard: Solutions Life Cycle Management process in ...

Risk assessment is a systematic method of analyzing risk. It started in the nuclear and aeronautical industries, and has now spread to many other industries including the finance, transportation, ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One of the best examples of this fundamental law comes in cybersecurity: as new tools and technologies emerge to combat cyber attacks, cyber ...

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services released an interactive security risk assessment tool intended to assist employers who sponsor self-insured group health plans in complying with ...