Category: Security & Compliance

Businesses and enterprises often fall into the bad habit of turning compliance into an annual task of checking boxes. Going through audits or filling out self-assessments is necessary to avoid paying fines and, in some cases, to continue to operate. However, a check-box view of compliance does nothing to strengthen your security framework. The Purpose…

News about the SolarWinds hack keeps getting worse. In a February 17, 2021, White House briefing, Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, reported that nine federal agencies and about 100 private companies, many of which were technology companies that could provide a path to other data, were breached.  Neuberger said…

It’s easy to understand why the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces requirements for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant cloud solutions. According to HIPAA Journal, healthcare organizations reported 3,705 data breaches to the HHS Office for Civil Rights between 2009 and 2020. In total, 268,189,693 healthcare records have been lost,…

In a highly publicized move, Amazon Web Services (AWS) removed the social media platform Parler from its cloud early on January 11. While the debate continues about the specifics of this situation in political and legal circles, it has to be raising a few questions for cloud service providers and clients alike. One of the…

Remember when someone on your IT team would take an external hard drive home on nights and weekends to make sure the business had a copy of data offsite? Hopefully that was long ago for you. If it wasn’t, it should be. Thankfully, those days are behind us because hybrid and multi-cloud architecture have become…

Even though many businesses are beginning to bring employees back to the office, the “workplace” as we know it will never look the same. Empowering remote employees with the technology they need to do their job has moved from a “middle-of-the-road” priority to a “top 5” priority for most businesses and getting your IT strategy…

You may already know that bad actors hack and expose millions of user accounts and billions of data points every year. It’s likely your info was part of a data breach that occurred sometime in the last few years. After Yahoo let over three billion user accounts out the door between 2013 and 2014, the…

Quickbooks Hosting Solutions aren’t all the same. And if you’re in the healthcare industry, you have an added layer of complexity surrounding your data protection: HIPAA Compliance. Today, Intuit doesn’t doesn’t meet HIPAA privacy standards, nor will they sign a BAA. So, what options do healthcare companies who are subject to HIPAA compliance have when…