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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Management Problems Have Created a Privacy Nightmare For Americans – Even Without Vaccine Passports

Joseph Steinberg

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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IoT Devices and HIPAA Compliance: 6 Things Healthcare Orgs Must Know

SecureWorld News

This is particularly true within healthcare environments where IoT is also increasingly used, and where HIPAA compliance must also be addressed when IoT products are used by covered entities (CEs) and their business associates (BAs). Medical data was taken in 22% of breaches caused by insiders, mostly within healthcare providers.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

While Kaiser has not provided many specifics about the nature of the cybersecurity incident, the company stated that the compromised data included individuals' names, addresses, email addresses, and may have also included medical information and health record numbers depending on the person. in terms of the number of people impacted.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But it’s coming, in the form of driverless cars, climate-restoring infrastructure and next-gen healthcare technology.

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Access Management is Essential for Strengthening OT Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This should be a focus area for organizations to improve their defensive tactics, such as ensuring secure credentials and removing unnecessary privileged accounts. Although the attack against Colonial Pipeline deservedly gained news attention, ransomware attacks have increasingly disrupted the sectors of food, healthcare and transportation.

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How boards can manage digital governance in the age of AI

BH Consulting

It introduces accountability measures for large platforms, and strengthens users’ rights. The Data Act enhances access to and use of non-personal data across sectors. This focuses on cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting for essential sectors like healthcare and energy.