Posts Tagged ‘information management’
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
Encryption has been talked about a lot lately. I’ve gotten at least a couple dozen questions from my Compliance Helper clients in the past month. They can pretty much be boiled down to this question:
What encryption solution should we use?
Many of the small and mid-size businesses I help, and many start-ups of any size, are under the assumption that if they get one encryption solution, it will (more…)
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
One of the things I love about helping all my Compliance Helper (CH) clients with their information security and privacy compliance activities is that they often ask questions that most other small and mid-size organizations also have. So, I then have a great opportunity to share advice! One of my recent conversations dealt with the challenges my mid-size client was having in trying to appropriately customize the data and records retention policy and procedure I provide through the CH service to fit his organization’s unique type of business associate service, while also meet compliance with the HIPAA retention requirements. The paraphrased questions below started our conversation after I advised that there are many types of documents that must be retained for at least 6 years to meet compliance: (more…)
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