A few months ago I had some lively back-and-forth blog postings with a doctor who used email and instant messaging (IM) a lot in his practice; here, here and here.
Today my good friend Alec forwarded me another interesting news article (thanks Alec!) about the use of email by doctors; “It’s no LOL: Few US doctors answer e-mails from patients.”
Posts Tagged ‘IT compliance’
Do We REALLY Need Doctors To Do Consultations Via Email?
Friday, April 25th, 2008Smart Business Leaders Support Effective Log Management Practices and Necessary Resources
Thursday, April 24th, 2008The second article in this month’s IT Compliance in Realtime Journal is, “Smart Business Leaders Support Log Management.”
I wrote this with an audience of information security and privacy personnel, along with IT managers, in mind.
Download the formatted PDF version to get the full content, not to mention a nicer looking document.
Here is the unformatted version…
My Information Security and Privacy Convergence Webcast Now Available
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Yesterday the ISSA posted on their website a free webcast I did, “Information Security and Privacy Convergence”
Here is the synopsis…
Improve Program Change Controls To Reduce Incidents
Monday, April 21st, 2008Recently in my Norwich MSIA class we were discussing the importance of program change controls, and I wanted to continue the discussion here because as important as it is, it typically does not get the attention it deserves in most organizations.
Improve Program Change Controls To Reduce Incidents
Monday, April 21st, 2008Recently in my Norwich MSIA class we were discussing the importance of program change controls, and I wanted to continue the discussion here because as important as it is, it typically does not get the attention it deserves in most organizations.
Revisiting Online Medical Information Storage Houses Points To Consistent Need For *1* Federal Privacy Law
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Last fall I blogged about Microsoft’s HealthVault, “Why Would You Trust Microsoft To Store Your Sensitive Health Information?”
It didn’t take long before Google got in on the game.
Today an interesting story ran in the New York Times, “Warning on Storage of Health Records” that also points out the concerns with having huge amounts of health information stored in some mega-multi-services-products types of monolith company. The issues are the same for any organization storing such information, though; but putting health information in the same corporate systems that contain the records of billions of people really open up quite a Pandora’s box of privacy breach possibilities.
Here are some excerpts from the news story that make some good points…
Addressing Application Vulnerabilities With PCI DSS Log Management Compliance
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008The third and final paper in my PCI DSS log management compliance series is now available!
I encourage you to download the much nicer-looking formatted PDF version. 🙂
However, the following is the unformatted version of “Addressing Application Vulnerabilities with PCI Log Management Compliance“…
Great New Risk Management Document From The U.S. GAO
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008There is a new document from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), “STRENGTHENING THE USE OF RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN HOMELAND SECURITY”
It includes discussions of current risk management practices from non-government industries that are really quite interesting, not to mention some great risk management ideas and descriptions of risk management practices.
Check it out!
Privacy and Security Lost And Found
Monday, April 14th, 2008Today I’ve been participating in a very interesting discussion on the Security Catalyst Community about a very interesting project that Scott Wright is doing with Honey Sticks at his site.
Part of the discussion led to the possibility that one of the Honey Sticks that Scott had planted in a hotel, and had been “activated,” may have been turned in to the hotel’s lost and found.
Policy VALUE versus Policy COST
Sunday, April 13th, 2008I’ve been doing a lot of student grading for the Norwich MSIA program, along with a lot of communications with folks new to information security and privacy over the past several years. Policy cost versus policy value has been a frequently occurring topic throughout many of those conversations, and I just wanted to get it out of my mind and on the blog, perhaps to reference later…
