Risk management is a term bandied about by a lot of experts. It’s critically important, of course, but it is also a catch-all for security terms that may not seem to apply directly to immediate, regulatory security.
So, when insider threats come up, it becomes challenging to parse out how security and risk help address the issue. Here, we will discuss how simple approaches to risk management can start to address insider threats.
The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the more complex regulations in the U.S., due in no small part to the complicated and open-ended nature of the law.
What should companies do? In this case, covered organizations are turning to risk-based assessments to help them support their security approaches.
Here, we will discuss how risk plays a role in the rule of HIPAA law.
The increasing use of cloud vendors and third-party providers has made advanced IT infrastructure and expertise available even to smaller organizations. It has also created an interconnected ecosystem of businesses, government agencies, utility firms and managed service providers (MSPs) that can potentially compromise security across multiple systems.
If you’re a managed service provider, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your systems are secure, that your partnerships are equally secure, and that you maintain continuing risk management and monitoring against all services.