Reports of potential breaches of patient privacy at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California have garnered the HIPAA-related attention you would expect, but are also raising questions about the availability and use of social networking sites…
In the wake of the release of its updated Special Publication 800-37, Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems, which among other things calls for federal agencies to continuously monitor the security…
The last-minute apprehension of the would-be Times Square bomber, who had already boarded an international flight despite being placed on the government’s no-fly list, provides one of the rare instances where real-time integration or data propagation…
The call now seems to coming from all sides that federal government agencies need to fully embrace risk-based approaches to information security and move towards continuous monitoring and enterprise situational awareness. OMB, in coordination with the…
In a notice published this week in the Federal Register, the National Science Foundation’s National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD) announced three new federal cybersecurity research themes that represent a…
While there appears to no shortage of consideration in the current administration or Congress for addressing privacy practices in some contexts in the United States, efforts to strengthen personal privacy protections seem to be gaining momentum…
As noted this week in a blog posting from Hunton & Williams, a ruling issued in February from a federal district court in Ohio highlights some of the legal complexities in navigating both state and federal…
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