This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a very interesting assessment of how well, and how effectively, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was performing their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight responsibilities.
Posts Tagged ‘IT compliance’
Audit Shows That After 5 Years CMS *STILL* Has No Documented Procedures For Ensuring HIPAA compliance
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Audit Shows That After 5 Years CMS *STILL* Has No Documented Procedures For Ensuring HIPAA compliance
Thursday, October 30th, 2008This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a very interesting assessment of how well, and how effectively, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was performing their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight responsibilities.
Create A Clear Education Strategy BEFORE Asking Executives for Training and Awareness Support
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Information security, privacy, and compliance practitioners must obtain the support of executive management to be successful. So how do you do this?
I talk about this in the first section of the first article of my October issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime Journal.”
Here is the unformatted version of the first section of the first article; download the PDF to see a much nicer-looking version…
The Insider Threat For Identity Theft: Watchout For Dead-Beat Parents
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Here’s a story that points to how vulnerable people are to identity theft and other types of crimes and frauds from slimy family…and ex-family…members…
Hackers Are “Rattlesnakes Without the Rattles”
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap’n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world.
I saw the ABC News article…
Web 2.0 Security, Privacy & Policies
Friday, October 24th, 2008Since 2000 I’ve been writing a monthly column for the Computer Security Institute (CSI) Alert publication…
FTC Postpones Active Red Flags Rule Enforcement To May 1, 2009
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008I was surprised to read this yesterday…
DHS Secretary Chertoff Calls For Better Computer Security
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008It is good to start seeing more urgency place upon information security by the various government agencies.
As an example, last week U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce emphasized the need for increased cooperation between industry and government to secure the nation’s computer systems.
Here’s an excerpt from one of the news reports about the speech…
Reading Online Privacies Could Cost $365 Billion Annually? Doubt It!
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008My friend Alec (thanks Alec!) pointed me this interesting story…
