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Seek and Destroy: U.S. Energy Firms Warned of Recent IT Threats
Last Thursday, the U.S. government released a warning about the increasing risk of cyber attacks targeting critical energy corporations; seeking to destroy or manipulate industrial machinery in attempts to seize control of networks that deliver...
Celebrate Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week!
Everybody put your party hats on, it’s time to celebrate! May 5-11 is Corporate Compliance and Ethics week, which means it’s the perfect time for taking stock of your business and finding some great ways to make compliance a culture you and your...
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
When considering business continuity and disaster recovery options, there’s really only one constant from business to business: it’s important to have a plan. No matter how small or large your business, if something happens and there isn’t a plan,...
HIPAA Breach Lessons Learned
While no records were broken when it comes to number of health records disclosed per data breach, the top HIPAA breaches of last year still come with some hard lessons learned about technical and physical security. Learn from their mistakes and...
HIPAA in a HITECH World: HIPAA Violations on the Rise
Leon Rodriguez, Director Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shared unexpected insights from early analysis of breach statistics and the audit pilot at the American Healthcare Lawyers Association conference, HIPAA...
PCI-Compliant Supermarket Chain Bashas’ Breached
In February, the supermarket chain Bashas’ Family of Stores found unique malware on their network that allowed attackers access to cardholder data across their 130 locations. Interestingly, Bashas’ is attesting that they were, in fact, compliant at...
Genesco Sues Visa Over PCI Noncompliance Fines
On March 7th, the sportswear company Genesco filed a lawsuit against Visa. The issue? In 2010 Genesco’s computer system was breached, potentially allowing customer credit card information to be accessible to attackers. Due to this data breach, Visa...
Cloud Security: Vetting Applications and Cloud Providers for Compliance and Security
The latest report from the Ponemon Institute, located in Traverse City, Michigan, sought to analyze trends in cloud computing security among organizations that use software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Only half of...
Cybersecurity: Evernote Adds Two-Factor Authentication
On Saturday, the online SaaS (software as a service) note-collecting Evernote posted a blog with subsequent email stating that they had discovered and blocked unauthorized activity on their network. In response to the attack, they reset the...
Investing in Data Center Efficiencies: Part Two
In the second part of our Investing in Data Center Efficiencies series, we will focus on two of the three levels of investments data centers can incorporate to become more energy efficient. (Read part one.)Infrastructure Changes The second level of...
Investing in Data Center Efficiencies: Part One
Do you know what the greatest operating expense is for data centers? Energy costs. Steadily rising over the years, the cost of energy now makes up 25 percent of a data center’s total operating costs, says InformationWeekly.com. In a year-long...
Online Tech Expert Interview: What Is High Availability?
Using a High Availability (HA) architecture can greatly reduce the risk of losing revenue and customers due to a loss of Internet connectivity or loss of power. However, how much do you really understand about a high availability infrastructure?...
