Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexander B. Howard at SearchCompliance.com for a 26 minute podcast…
Posts Tagged ‘Information Security’
Podcast: HITECH Act adds new compliance requirements, penalties
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Understanding Data Protection from 4 Critical Perspectives
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Today I gave a webcast (27 minutes) about “Understanding Data Protection from 4 Critical Perspectives” and it is now available online through this link…
IP Addresses Are Considered PII By Some Countries No Matter If U.S. Orgs Like It Or Not
Monday, May 4th, 2009Today on Twitter, @clarinette02 posted a link to an interesting article, “IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says,” from a little over a year ago…
Red Flags Rule Enforcement Delayed to August 1, 2009; FTC Providing a Compliance “Template”
Friday, May 1st, 2009Employee Rights to PII When You Leave Your Employer or Lose Your Job
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009I often get emails from my blog and Twitter readers, many of whom I have never met before; sometimes several in a day. Many often ask for help that really is a call for free consulting help. Others are quick, short and fast for me to answer. Others are just bizarre. I answer whatever I have time for. I recently got the following question (edited to protect identities), and I think so many folks may be involved in a similar situation with all the continuing job losses that it might be useful to several folks…
HIPAA & HITECH Act Sanctions & Penalties
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Today I had the great pleasure and opportunity to do a podcast with Alexander Howard over at TechTarget discussing HIPAA and the HITECH Act…
Community Information Security and Privacy Awareness
Monday, April 27th, 2009Today I read a nice article describing a presentation about information security, “Cyber safety tips shared“…
My Son Caught A “Hacker”!
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009NOTE: Just realized today is Take Your Child To Work Day so this is timely! 🙂
My sons, 12-years-old and 9-years-old, have been with me a lot while I work in my home office over the years, and they have a strong interest in much that I do. I even ask them to read the articles I write for Protecting Information since I want that publication to be informational to not only personnel, but also all the personnel’s family members.
It amazes me how much my sons soak up that I’m not even aware of…
2 More Things In History That Could Have Improved Infosec & Privacy
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Late last week I blogged about a question I got while at InfoTec in Omaha last week, “2 Things In Computing History That Could Have Improved Information Security and Privacy“…
Breach Notices, Securing PHI & PHR Vendor Responsibilities Under HIPAA/HITECH Act
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Last Friday the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released, at the last possible moment to meet their deadline, their interim final regulations to require covered entities (CEs) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and their business associates (BAs) to provide for notification in the case of breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) as required by the HITECH Act.
If you’ve read any of the at least 47 U.S. state and territory beach notice laws you will get a strong sense of deja vu while reading this document. They borrowed HEAVILY from the various existing breach notice laws to estblished their proposed definitions of securing PHI, what constitutes a “breach” of PHI, and for doing breach notifications.
There are two major issues…
