HIPAA Secure Now Joins Far-Reaching Initiative to Promote the Awareness of Online Safety and Privacy for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Oct 1, 2019 | HSN

October 1, 2019 — HIPAA Secure Now! today announced its commitment to National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), held annually in October, by signing up as a Champion and joining a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. NCSAM...

Ransomware Chaos in Campbell County

Sep 30, 2019 | HSN, ransomware

Campbell County Chaos Hopefully, you didn’t have a doctor appointment in Campbell County Wyoming recently.  And if you had an emergency situation, perhaps you were not getting the immediate care that you may have hoped for when you showed up at the ER.   It wasn’t the...

Compliance & Cybersecurity Go Hand-In-Hand

Sep 16, 2019 | HSN

Humans or HIPAA? When it comes to healthcare organizations addressing the HIPAA compliance of their business, many feel prepared and comfortable, readily checking that “compliant” box. But addressing the human part of security falls by the wayside too often. ...

Does Your Breach Response Plan Include Notification?

Sep 11, 2019 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN

Remain Calm, Remain Honest – and Remain in Business Avoiding the inevitable does not make it go away. Healthcare patients choose a provider based on the quality of care.  In addition to that, the public will generally assume that their private information is...

Ransomware Hits Hundreds of Dental Offices

Sep 5, 2019 | HSN, ransomware

A Toothache Beyond Repair Hackers have used the very software that hundreds of dentists relied on to run their business, to bring it to their knees.  A ransomware attack is responsible for shutting down computers at roughly 400 dental offices all over the U.S. The...