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August 8, 2017. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published with an August 2017 publication date NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-181: National Initiative for [...]

June 12, 2017. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published on June 8, 2017 via its SecurityList “OCR Quick Response Cyber Attack [...]

May31, 2017. On May 30, 2017, the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Update G: Indicators Associated with [...]

May 15, 2017. For healthcare covered entities and business associates that have not implemented HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the HITECH Act Breach Notification Rule, the current massive, [...]

April 4, 2017. The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has published an Issue Brief entitled: “The Rampant Growth of Cybercrime in Healthcare.” The timing of the WEDI release [...]

April 4, 2017. In the past week, HIPAA Integrity® has posted several significant pieces on the importance of implementing and hardening cybersecurity perimeter defenses to deter and mitigate the [...]

March 31, 2017. On March 22, 2017, the Cyber Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a Private Industry Notification entitled: “Cyber Criminals Targeting FTP Servers to [...]

January 31, 2017. In recent posts on the HIPAA Integrity® Website, we have urged our readers and clients to invest in security and to harden access to their IT systems in order to minimize the [...]

December 27, 2016. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published in December a NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-184 entitled: Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery, an [...]

November 11, 2016. We have reported in earlier blog postings about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) September 15, 2016, Cybersecurity initiative entitled: NIST Releases [...]