HIPAA is a federal law protecting healthcare information that was enacted in 1996 and took effect in 2003. However, for years it was known to have little enforcement. The HITECH act of 2009 made improvements to HIPAA, but did it really change anything as far as enforcement goes? Personally, I was skeptical. Recently UCLA was …
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Human Capital
A few month ago Patrick Gorman was named Bank of America’s Chief Information Security Officer. While looking for information about Patrick’s strategy for security, I came across an interesting quote of his from the end of last year. Gorman used to be Associate Director of National Intelligence and acting Chief Information Officer at Office of …
RSA CSO interview
I just heard an interesting pod cast interviewing Eddie Schwartz who is the new CSO of RSA. RSA revealed a data breach into it’s SecurID database in March. In June it was confirmed that the information stolen during the RSA breach was used to breach Lockheed Martin. Here’s a portion of what Schwartz said: “Imagine …