In the second part of this series we will focus on what you should be doing to protect yourself. When you break down the main guidelines of HIPAA security rule it falls into three main components: administrative, physical, and technical. All three of these are designed to make sure practices are doing everything within...
As HIPAA, along with all of its guidelines, acts, rules and acronyms associated with the various dates can seem very overwhelming to most, in this article we will attempt to cut to the core of the matter and try to be a clear-cut as possible. We, under no circumstance, claim that this article contains every...
Is your Organization Still Running Windows XP & Windows Server 2003? You may have heard that running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft stopped supporting them is a dangerous idea, but did you understand why it’s so dangerous? We want to explain the major risks that make running unsupported operating systems dangerous so...
What is Crypto / Ransomware? “Paying the ransom is the only way that you can get your files back – unless you have working backups!” Ransomware is malicious software that infects your computer using a variant of the Trojan virus. The software encrypts files on your local and mapped network drives, rendering their contents...
Don't Let Scammers Bypass your Security Before we go into our Best Practices, let’s define “Phishing” so we are all on the same page. “Phishing is defined as the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and occasionally, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a...
If you’re currently running Windows Server 2003, do you have a migration plan yet? On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows Server 2003. End of support means that users and businesses still on the platform will no longer receive security updates for any version of Windows Server 2003. If you are...
CryptoWall 2.0 was released in October, 2014 and is classified as Ransomware. Once the malicious software has infected a computer it begins to scan data files and encrypts files so that they cannot be reopened. Once your files are encrypted a prompt shows up to notify you of the location of the file and that...
The Importance of Internet Security Regardless of what seems to be a consistent news stream of incidents where hackers crack into businesses to cause harm, steal information, or disrupt daily operations, there are still organizations who are asking “What does it matter if someone uses my Wi-Fi?” So we wanted to go over the potential...
The Story of a Model Sales Rep. and his Personal Cloud Sharing Solution We wrote a blog article in the past on the dangers of utilizing a user-implemented cloud strategy. However today we wanted to focus on a possible scenario. The Model Sales Rep John works as a sales consultant for Acme Company. In...
Come April 8th, 2014, Windows will stop supporting their 12 year old operating system, meaning that it will no longer receive security updates, and therefore not comply with HIPAA regulations. For those of you who are concerned with the liability that comes with being non-compliant (Read our previous blog article “The Misconceptions of HIPAA” for more...
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