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Are you ready for a data breach? | Healthcare IT News - 0 views

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  • sandy ingram on 23 Jun 10
     
    The handling of data breach incidents has become a way of life for healthcare providers and with other HIPAA covered entities. With the passage of the HITECH Act last year, there are now substantial penalties that can be levied, up to $1.5 million. This fact, combined with a requirement to notify the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the media for data breach incidents that affect over 500 individuals has, for the first time, resulted in public records being kept for such incidents. If you oversee privacy, compliance, or IT for a hospital system, a group practice, a health insurance company, other covered entities, or even one of their business associates, the HITECH Act and its privacy and data breach provisions require your close attention. While many people know that HITECH generally creates requirements for data breach notification, there are at least four things you may not know about HITECH that you really should: The requirement for a mandatory incident-specific risk assessment for every incident The fact that HITECH notification provisions do not pre-empt state notification laws Encryption of data does not necessarily alleviate the risk of data breach If your business associate exposes your protected health information (PHI), you are responsible
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Small Business Facts and Figures - 0 views

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small business facts figures 2010 SBA U.S.

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  • sandy ingram on 19 Sep 11
     
    What is a small business? The Ofce of Advocacy denes a small business as an in- dependent business having fewer than 500 employees. (The denition of "small business" used in government programs and contracting varies by industry; seewww.sba.gov/size.)
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Data Security Breaches Cost Real Money - 0 views

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it data security breach cost privacy Information Assurance Poneman

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  • PGP Corporation, an enterprise data protection company, and the Poneman Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, as part of their fifth annual U.S. Cost of a Data Breach Study, tracked a wide array of cost elements
  • These elements included outlays for detection, escalation, notification, and response along with legal, investigative and administrative expenses, customer defections, opportunity loss, reputation management, and costs related to customer support like information hotlines and credit monitoring subscriptions
  • data breaches caused by malicious attacks and botnets were on the high end of severity and cost responses. These types of breaches doubled from 2008 to 2009.
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  • data breaches involving data outsourced to third-parties, especially those offshore, remain very costly.
  • The study shows that companies are spending more on legal defense costs in the area of data security breaches
  • Furthermore, companies that have a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or equivalent high-level security/privacy leader in place who manages data security breach incidents experienced a 50% less per cost of compromised record than companies that do not have such leadership.
  • Somewhat surprisingly, the study indicates that companies that notify victims of data breaches too quickly may incur about 12% higher response costs. The study suggests that moving too quickly through the data breach process could cause inefficiencies that raise total costs
  • companies that engage outside expertise to assist them during a data breach incident tended to have a lower $170 cost per victim than companies that do not seek outside help at $231 per victim.
  • sandy ingram on 08 Apr 10
     
    study shows that companies are spending more on legal defense costs in the area of data security breaches. This has been attributed to fears of potential class actions, and other lawsuits resulting from consumer and employee data loss. In fact, companies that engage outside expertise to assist them during a data breach incident tended to have a lower $170 cost per victim than companies that do not seek outside help at $231 per victim.
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Few businesses are likely to be insured against the result of cyber attacks - Security ... - 0 views

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Best Practice Privacy Security Insurance Employee Fraud unemployment resession

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  • Businesses are advised to thoroughly review risk management procedures and insurance programmes to ensure they have adequate and relevant cover in place: “The responsibility to get the house in order should lie with an organisation’s Managing Director or Finance Director, and not the IT department alone,” says Simon. “IT defences whilst vital only react to known problems and are not guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. Protection for the whole business and its sustainability is without doubt the safest option.”
  • “The economic downturn has resulted in people of all levels and responsibilities losing their jobs, and those with a detailed knowledge of their former employers’ IT and operating systems may well present a real potential threat, and turn to extortion as a way of taking revenge on their former employer, and of making some money at the same time.
  • According to The Wilson Organisation, insurers and underwriters are predicting a rise in white collar extortion as the recession continues to bite and unemployment figures increase. Worryingly many businesses do not have insurance cover for data or business loss.
  • sandy ingram on 21 Jul 09
     
    According to The Wilson Organisation, insurers and underwriters are predicting a rise in white collar extortion as the recession continues to bite and unemployment figures increase. Worryingly many businesses do not have insurance cover for data or business loss. "According to a DTI Information Security Breaches Survey, a third of UK businesses think general business insurance provides full cover for damage to the business arising from data loss," comments Wilsons' Simon Hoare, "but the reality is quite different, with very few businesses likely to be insured against the result of cyber attacks on its most crucial management and business tool - corporate and customer information, most of which is today held on corporate IT systems. "For public company directors, this is in fact in breach of their duties under the Turnbull Report, which requires them to identify, manage and take an informed opinion on the transfer of risks for the business."
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17 Steps to Cloud Migration -- Federal Computer Week - 0 views

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  • “The trick is to determine which services, information, and processes are good candidates to reside in the Clouds, as well as which Cloud services should be abstracted within the existing or emerging SOA,” Linthicum said.
  • Do Your Homework Linthicum says to start with your Architecture and make sure you understand your organization’s business drivers, information already under management, existing services under management and your core business processes.
  • In that way you can begin to look where Cloud Computing is a fit according to Linthicum. You can look to migrate to the Cloud when:*The processes, applications, and data are largely independent.*The points of integration are well defined.*A lower level of security will work just fine. *The core internal enterprise architecture is healthy.*The Web is the desired platform.*Cost is an issue.*The applications are new.
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  • not all computing resources should exist in the Clouds and that Cloud is not always cost effective. It shows you need to do your homework before making any move. So, Cloud may not be a fit when the opposite conditions exist:*The processes, applications, and data are largely coupled.*The points of integration are not well defined.*A high level of security is required. *The core internal enterprise architecture needs work.*The application requires a native interface.*The cost is an issue.*The application is legacy.
  • external Cloud services should function like any other enterprise application or infrastructure resource and Cloud resources should appear native.
  • It goes without saying that as with any purchase, you should evaluate Cloud providers using similar validation patterns as you do with new and existing Data Center resources. You know there is going to be hype, but Cloud is not rocket science. If you feel you need to, hire a consultant as a trusted advisor.
  • CSC’s Yogesh Khanna told Summit attendees to embrace the business models that Clouds offer. Security barriers are all addressable not only through technology but also through policies. 
  • Be wary of the fact that there are a lot of Clouds out there. Some of the Public Clouds (e.g. Google’s or SalesForce.com) are proprietary in nature. Because this landscape is changing so fast, it is very important to maintain a level of flexibility and don’t fall prey to “vendor lock-in”.
  • “Look for some level of transparency that allows you to be certain exactly where your data is and who is seeing it,” said Khanna. “Have the flexibility to see where your data is at any given point and be able to monitor the health of the Cloud that’s delivering those services to you.”
  • sandy ingram on 17 Aug 10
     
    What the government IT manager needs when getting ready to embark on their migration to the Cloud is a good template; one that defines a proven roadmap to follow.What Cloud Computing Summit attendees learned (and now you) is that help is on the way. Cloud and SOA expert Dave Linthicum has developed a step-by-step plan to help you scale the heights. He goes through them meticulously in his new book Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence In Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide. At the Summit, Linthicum outlined the plan. Afterwards he told 1105 Custom Media you can consider Cloud Computing the extension of SOA out to Cloud-delivered resources, such as storage-as-a-service, data-as-a-service, and platform-as-a-service.
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Study: Cloud Cuts Carbon Emissions: Companies running applications in the cloud can red... - 0 views

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cloud study carbon emissons

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  • “The IT industry had this nagging question – as more and more services move to the cloud, do they consume more or less energy?” Bernard said. “This study found that you can migrate existing infrastructure to the cloud and see not only growth in productivity but a reduction in energy consumption for those services.”
  • The study was aimed at understanding how the cloud performs differently from an on-premises environment, said Josh Whitney, corporate sustainability strategy lead with WSP. Using a methodology aligned to the Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI) standards, Accenture and WSP compared the energy use and carbon emissions per user for Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM with their cloud-based equivalents: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The results suggest that for widely deployed and commonly used applications such as e-mail, content sharing and customer relationship management, the cloud can enable significant reduction in carbon emissions.
  • “The findings are actually pretty impressive,” Whitney said. “I think this study provides further reinforcement of the benefits of the cloud beyond the bottom line. It provides one of the first quantitative and measurable analyses of the impact that cloud computing can have directly compared to a traditional deployment of IT within a company.”
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  • The study pointed to several other factors that drove down emissions and consumption, including the fact that datacenters operate servers at much higher utilization rates and are physically constructed to reduce power loss.
  • Mike Ehrenberg, a technical fellow and chief architect for Microsoft Dynamics, said the study’s findings should reinforce for customers the benefits of moving to the cloud.
  • sandy ingram on 09 Nov 10
     
    "A new study released today found that companies running applications in the cloud can reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent or more compared with running those same applications in their own infrastructure. The study, "Cloud Computing and Sustainability: The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud," was commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Accenture, a global management consulting, technology consulting and technology outsourcing company, and WSP Environment & Energy, an environmental consulting group. "
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The Cloud's Green Advantage - Forbes.com - 0 views

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Privacy Security cloud microsoft

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  • When small organizations (100 users) move to the cloud, the effective carbon footprint reduction could be up to a 90% savings by using a shared cloud environment instead of their own local servers
  • For large corporations, the savings are typically 30% or more. In a case study with a large consumer-goods company, the team calculated that 32% of energy use and resulting carbon emissions could be saved by moving 50,000 e-mail users in North America and Europe to Microsoft's equivalent cloud offering.
  • What accounts for these significant energy savings? Think of cloud computing as being like mass transit. The data center is essentially getting computing applications to carpool or take the bus instead of sitting in their own individual servers. However, unlike mass transit, there is no sacrifice in convenience or performance with this move. Consider the disappointing fact that a typical server in a company often runs at about 10% of capacity, meaning there are lots of servers out there drawing power without doing much computing
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  • The economies of scale of cloud data centers allow much higher utilization of servers, dynamic provisioning to better match server capacity to demand, and multi-tenancy to serve thousands of organizations with one set of shared infrastructure.
  • The efficiency benefits of the cloud won't be realized unless customers are thoughtful about decommissioning or repurposing unused servers, and cloud providers like Microsoft continue to innovate in the name of greater and greater efficiency.
  • For companies with their own large-scale infrastructure, this study identifies the key drivers that will let them optimize for the greatest efficiency as well.
  • sandy ingram on 17 Nov 10
     
    "In his piece, "Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management," William Clifford makes important points about the need to optimize the efficiency of both cloud data centers and on-premise computing. However, a new study released this week challenges his assertion that cloud computing "just transfers the consumption problem to another location." The findings suggest instead that cloud computing can significantly reduce the overall net energy use of business computing needs."
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The collaborative web in action - CEO Forum Group - 0 views

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ceo collaborative web2.0 workplace

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  • it is a sad fact that too few CEOs make the connection this current wave of the Internet and any change in the way business works. This I believe is a pity and it could cost businesses money.
  • For many CEOs, I would suggest, this trend is one which they understand only tangentially – perhaps when they see their home telecommunications bill if they have children – or when they meet one of their generation Y employees, who cheekily ‘demands’ instant messaging or an iPhone as part of their salary package.
  • it is the platform of networked based colllaboration tools, created on the public Internet but increasingly being adopted in the workplace, which will set apart the successful businesses of the first two decades of the 21st century.
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  • When a business works out how to use collaboration tools properly, it can open up an entirely new way of improving resource allocation, driving innovation, getting closer to customers and partners, taking costs out of the business and reducing time-to-market. Collaboration, based on the network as the platform, is even able to help reduce the impact of business on the environment.
  • sandy ingram on 20 Nov 08
     
    "...it is the platform of networked based colllaboration tools, created on the public Internet but increasingly being adopted in the workplace, which will set apart the successful businesses of the first two decades of the 21st century."
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Data breach laws, e-discovery increase compliance duties - - 0 views

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  • The Massachusetts law applies not only to businesses in the state but to any company that keeps personal data on the state's residents. George examines two parts of the law that are particularly notable because they require action to avoid breaches--not just notify victims after the fact.
  • Businesses are required to have a working information security program for protecting personally identifiable information, and they must submit a written information security program to the state. They also must encrypt data in motion and at rest, including information on portable devices such as USB drives, laptop computers and smartphones.
  • A second complicated--and evolving--area of compliance is e-discovery, which is the process of handing over electronically stored information requested during a lawsuit.
  • sandy ingram on 20 Apr 10
     
    States are getting tougher when it comes to trying to protect their residents' personal data from breaches, and a new law in Massachusetts raises the bar by setting a fine of $5000 per record lost. As Randy George at InformationWeek reports, a company could be fined $1 million for losing one laptop with personal data on just 200 residents of the Bay State
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CIOs confused about cloud computing, survey reveals - 0 views

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cloud computing CIO survey

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  • That is despite the fact that the cloud model avoids capital expenditure by providing access to virtualised resources, said the report on the survey of 270 IT executives in 12 countries.
  • Many organisations are still in the early stages of adoption despite the availability of cloud services such as unified communications, customer relationship management and virtual datacentres, said Hanif Lalani, chief executive at BT Global Services.
  • But the majority of CIOs (57%) and senior executives (53%) surveyed said they were not happy to run applications and store data on servers outside their country for security reasons.
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  • Very few CIOs (21%) think that doing business in the cloud is not a security concern.
  • sandy ingram on 07 Jan 11
     
    "Over half of CIOs (53%) fail to see how cloud computing can save them money,"
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Infosecurity (USA) - Passwords becoming risky form of enterprise authentication - 0 views

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  • “The fact that passwords remain the cornerstone of enterprise authentication represents a significant and increasing risk. The vulnerability of password-based authentication is widely recognized: From the earliest phishing attacks to the most sophisticated spyware, passwords still represent one of the most common methods hackers target and use to access corporate systems and sensitive data”, the study observed.The way to reduce the costs of lost passwords and the increased vulnerability of similar user passwords is through the use of strong multi-factor authentication, explained Chatterjee. For example, two-factor authentication involves the use of something the user remembers, such as a password, and something the user has, like a token.
  • This approach increases security because a hacker needs both to gain access to a system or account; figuring out the password is not enough. It also reduces the need for users to have multiple, complex passwords. The system's two factors provide the complexity from a security point of view, he explained. Chatterjee used the example of a bank ATM card, which requires the use of the card along with the password for the user to gain access to his or her account.
  • With the two-factor authentication, users do not need to have complex passwords that change frequently. This reduces the burden on the employees as well as on the help desk, he noted.
  • sandy ingram on 04 Feb 11
     
    "30% to 50% of help desk calls relate to forgotten passwords"
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SANS Institute - Special Webcast: Cyber Terrorism: Fact or Fiction - 0 views

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  • The topic of Cyber Terrorism has been a subject of many debates as to the reality of a significant event-taking place at the click of the button. In recent media coverage we've seen the London & Spain train bombings being triggered remotely using one of the most world's most adopted technologies, a cell phone. Who would ever think that someone would use a cell phone as a trigger point for detonating a bomb? Additionally, who would ever think that a terrorist organization would realize that all cell phones on the same cellular network receives their time/date from the same network timeserver so everyone has the correct time. This has allowed them to conduct simultaneous attacks via sms or speed dial on their phone.
  • sandy ingram on 06 Jul 09
     
    The topic of Cyber Terrorism has been a subject of many debates as to the reality of a significant event-taking place at the click of the button. In recent media coverage we've seen the London & Spain train bombings being triggered remotely using one of the most world's most adopted technologies, a cell phone. Who would ever think that someone would use a cell phone as a trigger point for detonating a bomb? Additionally, who would ever think that a terrorist organization would realize that all cell phones on the same cellular network receives their time/date from the same network timeserver so everyone has the correct time. This has allowed them to conduct simultaneous attacks via sms or speed dial on their phone.
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