Best Cybersecurity Practices for Healthcare Organizations – Insider-Caused Data Loss

This article is part of a series of blog posts exploring the recommendations and guidance Health & Human Services (HHS) provides to healthcare organizations in its Cybersecurity Best Practices report. For previous articles in the series, click here. While any security incident may cause an entity heartburn, when the incident is traced back to an … Continue Reading

Best Cybersecurity Practices for Healthcare Organizations – Loss or Theft of Devices

By Aleksandra Vold and BakerHostetler on February 18, 2019 Posted in HHS, HIPAA/HITECH

This article is part of a series of blog posts exploring the recommendations and guidance Health & Human Services (HHS) provides to healthcare organizations in its Cybersecurity Best Practices report. For previous articles in the series, click here. The report on cybersecurity best practices (Report) weighs in on one of the issues many entities find … Continue Reading

Bank Agrees to Reimburse Company for Funds Taken Through Online Bank Account Theft

By Craig A. Hoffman on December 6, 2012 Posted in Financial Privacy

We reported in July on a First Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding that a bank failed to implement commercially reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized transfers by a criminal that gained the online banking credentials of a construction company. The criminal was able to steal $345,000 from the construction company’s account. It was then reported on … Continue Reading