With all the focus on confidentiality and privacy, what about health IT availability?

Most of the major information sharing initiatives under development today are designed with integration patterns that assume that most data will be accessed from the authoritative systems or organizations where it resides, rather than copied to…

Simulated cyber attack exercise demonstrates gaps in policies and skills

Responses to a simulation yesterday of a large-scale cyber attack that supposed a widespread malware infection has shut down cell phone and computer networks and disabled much of the power grid showed a lack of preparedness…

DoD efforts to shore up security extends to vendors, partners, and suppliers

As the Department of Defense continues its efforts to improve security provisions and practices for handling its information — especially with respect to sensitive but unclassified data — it is expanding its focus beyond its own…

The cybersecurity ball(s) are in the Senate’s court

Now that the House nearly unanimously passed its Cybersecurity Enhancement Act earlier this month, some attention has turned to the plethora of similar draft legislation in the Senate with speculation over which of the bills is…

Lack of common security standards complicates health information exchange

A recurring challenge facing efforts to implement interoperable health information exchange solutions is agreeing on a common set of security standards that can be applied to both private and public sector participants in such exchanges. There…

Debate over anonymous comment posting on school news site raises familiar First Amendment issues

In a story first reported by the Roanoke Times and picked up by the Washington Post in today’s edition, Virginia Tech’s student newspaper is at odds with the University Commission on Student Affairs over its practice…

Carrot or stick on cybersecurity?

Interesting post from GovInfoSecurity.com’s Eric Chabrow a couple of days ago, in which he borrows some conclusions from a Frontline documentary on the airline industry called “Flying Cheap” and applies them to the current debate about…