This week I spoke with a small (~25 employees) organization (a business associate providing services to healthcare providers) that contacted me looking for help; they had purchased a whiz-bang “HIPAA compliance GRC” solution that included with everything else information security policies, but they couldn’t make any sense of the policies they were given or how they related to the rest of the expensive GRC tool. Grrr!! There are (more…)
Archive for December, 2012
You Need to Actually Do What Your Policies Say!
Friday, December 21st, 2012Tags:audit, audits, awareness, BA, breach, business associate, business partner, CE, compliance, covered entity, customers, data protection, e-mail, electronic mail, email, employees, employment, HIPAA, hiring, HITECH, HR, human resources, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, job applicants, laws, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, patients, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, procedures, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, training, walk through
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Work Area Reviews are Necessary for Effective Risk Management
Monday, December 17th, 2012There have been a lot online posts and talk lately about risk management and the “proper” or “acceptable” way to do risk assessments. It seems that the overwhelming talk, though, is only about the right and wrong way to do a risk assessment whenever considering a risk management program. Certainly, using the best risk assessment method to fit your business environment is very important; one size, and one method, does not fit all! However, there are so many more activities necessary within a risk management program than just occasionally doing a risk assessment. Regulatory agencies are (more…)
Tags:audit, awareness, breach, compliance, customers, data protection, e-mail, electronic mail, email, employees, employment, facebook, fake IDs, hiring, HR, human resources, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, job applicants, laws, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, patients, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, social media, social networking, SPI, systems security, test data, training, twitter, walk through
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