SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2024

The healthcare industry has had a rough time when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the last few years, the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has gradually increased. Clearly, there’s still a lot of work to be done to improve cybersecurity measures in healthcare.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

As high-profile data breaches and leaks continue making headlines, a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) examines the triple-whammy of factors enabling this tidal wave of personal data theft. These escalations have made ransomware an even more potent data breach threat.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on the 28 th of January. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness about how businesses and individuals can promote the implementation of privacy and data protection best practices. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, industries reliant on shared devices—such as healthcare, retail, and manufacturing—face unique challenges. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy. For example, in healthcare, constant authentication interruptions can impact both patient care and productivity.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Reporting data breaches can be a lot like walking on broken egg shells for organizations. On the other hand, publicly admitting to a data breach can create serious blowback on the organization and perhaps damage both reputation and earnings. For the healthcare industry, this became more complicated amidst the pandemic.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent. Why This Data Breach is Different. This made us suspect that the database is owned by an insurance, healthcare, or mortgage company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Organizations around the world must fulfill an increasing number of regulatory requirements including NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as federal and state data breach laws.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The digital age has brought unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges in an increasingly interconnected world, particularly privacy and data protection. In the context of data breaches, class-action lawsuits allow affected individuals to unite against entities responsible for failing to safeguard their personal information.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, industries reliant on shared devices—such as healthcare, retail, and manufacturing—face unique challenges. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy. For example, in healthcare, constant authentication interruptions can impact both patient care and productivity.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2024

Integrating GenAI and LLMs into cybersecurity frameworks requires overcoming complex challenges, such as ensuring the models can handle the nuances of cyber threats, addressing data privacy concerns, adapting to the dynamic nature of the threat landscape, and dealing with inaccuracies and incomplete data sets that may lead to misleading outputs.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It also provides clear guidelines for businesses that operate in Oregon or process data about Oregon residents, regardless of where the business is located. The law is particularly relevant for businesses across various sectors—such as retail, finance, technology, and healthcare—that handle consumer data on a large scale.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 17, 2024

But there are some key challenges with the current state of identity verification: Centralized data storage. Organizations store vast amounts of data (including identity verification credentials and information) in a centralized space, which can leave them vulnerable to data breaches. Data breaches.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In this episode, we discuss the significant data breach at the Internet Archive, affecting 33 million users. We also examine the introduction of an AI-integrated toilet camera by Throne, designed for health monitoring by analyzing bodily waste, and the ensuing privacy concerns.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2024

The ransomware group that attacked a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group stole massive amounts of customers’ private health care data, the latest in a continuing string of information coming out about the data breach. The post UnitedHealth: Ransomware Attackers Stole Huge Amount of Data appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The GDPR brings a 21st Century human rights approach to data and cybersecurity. GDPR is the first law of its kind to truly take a crack at protecting an individual’s identity and recognizing that our data privacy is something important that should be guarded. At this point, almost every state has data privacy laws.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With data breaches on the rise— over 3,200 incidents in the U.S. last year alone —businesses are increasingly under pressure to protect personal data and comply with evolving privacy regulations. A well-defined framework provides clear guidelines for managing data from collection to disposal.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Today, Skyflow announced Bjorn Ovick, a 20-year veteran of the fintech industry with previous executive roles at RS2, Visa, American Express, and Wells Fargo, has joined the company to lead business development around Skyflow’s data privacy vault for fintech companies. What if Privacy had an API?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2024

CDK Global, a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for the automotive industry, recently fell victim to a significant data breach. Data protection regulations – The breach may prompt calls for stricter data protection regulations specific to the automotive industry.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in government contracting, healthcare, or other sectors that handle sensitive data, adhering to NIST Cybersecurity Framework guidelines ensures your business operates within the highest standards of regulatory compliance. Govern: Establish policies and procedures to oversee privacy risk management.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

At the same time – in fact, as a direct result of data’s central importance – more adversaries are working harder and finding more nefarious ways to steal or otherwise compromise your data. As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Private cloud security is thus the application of best practices and controls to protect data in private cloud environments from unwanted access, data breaches, and cyber threats while ensuring the highest standards of data privacy and confidentiality.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

The sudden transition to working, shopping, and socializing online has heightened their concerns, with everything from consulting healthcare practitioners to watching shows all taking place in the digital arena. Data Privacy Risks Data privacy risks involve the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of sensitive personal information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Pseudonymization is a de-identification process that has gained traction due to the adoption of GDPR, where it is referenced as a security and data protection by design mechanism. The application of pseudonymization to electronic healthcare records aims at preserving the patient's privacy and data confidentiality.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Some impact specific countries while others focus on individual industries, but each regulation being enforced is an indication that companies must be more accountable when it comes to how they manage data privacy and people’s data or they risk having to pay large fines. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Keep in mind, software security was an afterthought when legacy software development processes first took shape.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

While any external entity can be considered a third party, TPRM efforts are usually concentrated on vendors, suppliers, and contractors because: Access to Systems and Data: These entities often require direct access to an organization’s IT systems, customer data, or sensitive intellectual property.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

She suggested that the ruling could disrupt critical regulatory frameworks that protect public health, safety, and privacy. RELATED: HHS Mandates Patient Notification After Change Healthcare Data Breach ] With the Chevron Doctrine gone, courts will now have a more prominent role in interpreting cybersecurity regulations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

Various data sovereignty challenges arise for many businesses, such as cross-border data transfers, compliance with differing data protection laws, and protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Benefits of Data Access and Governance Strong data access governance benefits firms in various industries, including financial services, retail, and healthcare. The following list contains four advantages that data access governance can provide enterprises.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 1, 2022

When people think about data theft, the occurrence of large data breaches and attackers extracting millions of sensitive records often comes to mind. What many don’t realize is, that regardless of the scope or size of data extraction, it often takes several months to realize that data has been compromised.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2023

Companies without tech-savvy executives are not only more likely to suffer a serious data breach, but they are also less likely to have the tools and resources needed to recover from a serious attack. The IRS eFile website has reportedly come under attack , leading to serious data leaks and an invasion of consumer data privacy.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

With organizations and practices of all sizes across the healthcare industry adopting more advanced systems , privacy can no longer be an afterthought. This anticipatory approach can significantly enhance data protection in healthcare, where sensitive patient data is constantly collected, stored, and used.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

From retail to healthcare, banking to government, manufacturing to communications services – achieving your organization's mission and beating the competition requires paying attention to customer experience demands and working in a timely fashion to address them. What exactly are customers asking for?

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It has significantly impacted various industries, from telecommunications and healthcare to transportation and entertainment. Regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandate strict adherence to data security and privacy standards (Voigt et al.,

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2024

In healthcare, for example, organizations must comply with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect the privacy of their patients. Improved cybersecurity to protect both company and client data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The CyberNews investigation team discovered an unsecured, publicly accessible Kibana dashboard of an ElasticSearch database containing confidential data belonging to Apodis Pharma , a software company based in France. He writes about cybersecurity, privacy, and the impact of technology on the daily lives of consumers.

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