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Monday, February 8, 2021 Will HHS’ approach for imposing penalties in the aftermath of a data breach become a little clearer in 2021? This is a distinct possibility in the wake of a Fifth Circuit decision vacating penalties against MD Anderson Cancer Center. The hospital suffered three data breaches, leading HHS to impose over $4 million in civil penalties. That fine was reversed recently by the Fifth Circuit as arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law. MD Anderson first reported to HHS a lost unencrypted laptop that contained ePHI of 29,021 individuals in 2012. It also mispla...

Our experts weigh in: What will define leadership in the Data Age? COVID-19 shifted the already rapid pace of digital transformation into a higher gear we didn’t

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Get Permission Congressional Democrats have reintroduced a privacy bill to help consumers avoid being in the dark about how their COVID-19 data can be used. Congressional Democrats have again introduced legislation designed to help safeguard the privacy of COVID-19 health data collected for public health purposes. Similar proposals were introduced by Democratic lawmakers last year as part of a coronavirus relief package, but those provisions did not win Congressional approval. The Democratic senators and representatives who introduced this year’s legislation say the Public Health Emergency...

GovInfoSecurity As users and applications become the risk focal point, there is no hard and fast perimeter security professionals can put a wall around. Consequently, application layers remain insufficiently secured. In fact, application layer attacks are now the most frequent pattern in confirmed breaches. Download this guide and learn about types of application security solutions such as: Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Software Composition Analysis (SCA)