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When creating Email Policy – Include Guidelines for when Staff must use Encrypted Email
The importance of guidelines to ensure Efficient and Effective email Use “Most companies are grappling with email overload,” says Monica Seely, an email management expert at Mesmo and author of Brilliant Email. “Companies are losing up to 20 days per person per year, dealing with email poorly.” Most of us would not disagree with these statements. But how many organizations have you encountered that have email guidelines in place - ...
Is your bank using encrypted email to communicate with you – the customer?
It occurred to me in November that I have been using basic email to communicate with my (wonderful) banking representative for years. The topics sent back and forth on email could not be more sensitive in nature. The information included requests to transfer funds, bank account numbers, mortgage renewals, line of credit requests, social security numbers, passwords, credit card information - and gulp! -> income information and income tax statements by way of ...
Healthcare Breach Prevention & Email Encryption – Apparently Not a High Priority
The Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security was just released by Ponemon Institute, a privacy and security research firm based in Traverse City, Mich. Some of the findings are surprising, if not shocking given the attention and legislation put in place to deal with this topic. Lip service? One is really left to wonder. The Data When looking at the data, let's also keep in mind that the survey targeted data protection professionals, ...
Cyber-attacked prestigious Bay Street law firms claim securing client confidentiality is a priority. What about email?
Last night, the CBC reported on foreign hackers who launched a massive attack on Canadian government computers last fall, also broke into the data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms to get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. No surprise, statements issued by the legal firms were predictable and generic. But what struck me was that the issued statements included something that goes like this: "We take our obligations of ...
Tracking emails & recipients – Applying social media fundamentals
When I ask my teenager to send me an email, she cringes as if I have just asked her to mow the lawn. When I ask her about the repulsion, the jist of her response is that email is 'so yesterday'. That may be the case in her world, but email continues to be the primary communication tool for organizations and that's not going to change anytime soon. Email allows senders and ...
Email delegates – the challenges and risk of private & confidential email conversations
A good part of my career has been in Human Resources (HR) working with executive teams. Here's a bit of a rant from my view of the world, about some of the challenges with email delegates. Great concept - but has some holes. I have always felt uncomfortable that email delegates have access to the sensitive information and confidential conversations I have with my colleagues. I frequently avoided communicating important information on the fly by email or blackberry because I knew that someone other than the ...
When your lawyer doesn’t use secure email to exchange confidential information – and sends the wrong file attachment to opposing legal counsel
I have communicated with my lawyer over email for years. Every time I hit ‘send’ or open an email from my lawyer, I have always felt uncomfortable and vulnerable about the lack of security surrounding the exchange. The sensitive information and super-confidential details included in the body of the email often include financial information and legal strategy discussions. Not to mention the email attachments which often include copies of financial statements or draft responses to opposing ...
Who Is Responsible for Email Messaging Security—Law Firm or Client?
http://www.messagingnews.com/story/who-is-responsible-email-messaging-security-law-firm-or-client With severe consequences for non-compliance, email messaging security can no longer be ignored; more and more organizations and people contend, it is now a “must have.” But the challenge is that email was not designed to support the gamut of today’s business requirements. Until recently the only way to achieve messaging security was to send a decryption key to the recipient and then send an encrypted message that could be opened with the key. This ...
Physicians implementing electronic health records should consider cloud computing
How SaaS Can Help Minimize Risks March 30, 2011 - Howard Anderson, Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com Physicians implementing electronic health records should consider cloud computing as a way to improve security, says healthcare IT consultant Patricia Dodgen. The software-as-a-service model provides more security for EHRs than most smaller physician practices can afford to implement with a locally hosted system, says Dodgen, CEO at the consulting firm Hielix. In an interview (transcript below) Dodgen: Contends that smaller practices using cloud ...
Over $5.3 Million Fines Imposed for HIPAA Violations
Full article: http://securitywatch.eweek.com/data_security/over_53_million_fines_imposed_for_hipaa_violations.html Massachusetts General Hospital was fined $1 million for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It is the second ever fine imposed on a health care organization by the US Department of Health and Human Services ever since HIPAA went into effect in 2003. "We hope the health care industry will take a close look at this agreement and recognize that OCR is serious about HIPAA enforcement," Georgina Verdugo, the director ...
Continuously evaluating your security with the ever changing technology landscape
Full article: http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/healthitexchange/meaningfulhealthcareinformaticsblog/continuously-evaluating-your-security-with-the-ever-changing-technology-landscape/ We have seen a surge in the implementation of electronic health records. This of course has improved access to patient medical data and made it accessible from literally anywhere in the world. But with the incredible growth seen in Smartphones in consumer market and clinicians, comes the challenge of what to do to ensure the protection and safety of the medical records. When an organization selects to implement a complete EHR in ...
email2 Awarded Patent for Its Electronic Mail System to Heighten Email Functionality & Security for Private and Public Messaging
Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20110302/bs_prweb/prweb5119434 email2 receives patent number 7,730,142 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Oregon City, OR (PRWEB) March 1, 2011 email2, the leading provider of secure cloud email and content delivery, is proud to announce it has been granted patent number 7,730,142 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its revolutionary Electronic Mail System, with the ability to send both private and public email threads within the context of a single email ...
HIPAA Bares Its Teeth: $4.3m Fine For Privacy Violation
Full article: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hipaa-bares-its-teeth-43m-fine-privacy-violation-022311 The health care industry's toothless tiger finally bared its teeth, as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a $4.3 m fine to a Maryland health care provider for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The action is the first monetary fine issued since the Act was passed in 1996. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Final Determination to Cignet Health care of ...
email2 Officially Introduces Its Patented Delivery Slip to Enhance Tracking and Security of Email Messaging
email2, Moving Secure Cloud Email and Content Delivery to the Next Level. Portland, OR (PRWEB) February 17, 2011 email2, the leading provider of secure cloud email and content delivery, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office have issued US Patents 7,831,711 and 7,870,205 for its innovative content delivery application known as the Delivery Slip, a key component to the added value of using the email2 cloud service. The Delivery Slip application allows for ...
email2 Revolutionizes Email Messaging Security with their Highly Advanced Email and Content Delivery Platform
Establishing itself as the leading provider of email messaging security, email2 is proud to offer the easiest email encryption solution on the market today. Companies of all sizes have discovered the safer and easier way to send emails through email2’s secure corporate email and content delivery platform available at http://www.email2.com. Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) February 8, 2011 The email2 security platform currently protects thousands of users in businesses ranging from law firms, healthcare companies, financial institutions ...
HIPAA Violation Leads to Prison Term
Surgeon peeked at celebrities' records April 28, 2010 - Howard Anderson, Managing Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com A former UCLA Healthcare System surgeon has been sentenced to four months in prison after admitting he illegally read private electronic medical records of celebrities and others. Huping Zhou of Los Angeles is the first defendant in the nation to receive a prison sentence for a HIPAA privacy violation, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the central district of California. Zhou pleaded ...
HIPAA Audits Inching Closer to Reality
Booz Allen Hamilton wins two contracts March 31, 2010 - Howard Anderson, Managing Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com Federal regulators are one small step closer to starting audits of healthcare organizations and their business associates for compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules as required under the HITECH Act. The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded two key contracts to the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. OCR will hold ...