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• Cloud Services: Will It Be There When You Need It?

  How much should you (or can you) trust the cloud to be there when you need it? Last week, the top US internet sites went dark, on and off, for a couple of hours or so due to a historically unprecedented denial of service attack (DDoS). Over the past week... Posted Oct 28 2016, 04:23 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, computer data security, file encryption, prevent data leakage, data at rest encryption, document encryption, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption, best encryption, cloud security

• Ashley Madison Passwords Easy To Crack After All

  Ah, Ashley Madison. Even as one tries to move away from it to other issues, new problems surface like toxic malaise at a swamp: fraudulent $19 data scrubbings, men being conned by bots, some of the weakest passwords known to mankind securing their servers... Posted Sep 11 2015, 08:35 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, data security, data theft prevention, secure digital assets, password protection, persistent encryption, encryption software provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption

• Password Security: Ashley Madison Patrons Had Terrible Passwords

  Last week, motherboard.com reported that 4000 cracked passwords belonging to Ashley Madison customers were "awful," security-wise. The site went on to conclude that: It's understandable for users to be frustrated with Ashley Madison for... Posted Sep 04 2015, 02:36 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data security, data theft prevention, data at rest encryption, hard disk encryption, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption, server encryption

• HIPAA Data Breach: Medical Office Alerts Patients That Nothing Happened

  I've just run across a data breach notification that is a first of its kind: a data breach where the affected organization tells its clients (technically, patients) that nothing happened. It's like the Seinfeld show of data breaches. The breach... Posted Mar 20 2015, 05:03 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, HIPAA, data security, law, data theft prevention, computer data security, hard disk encryption, hdd encryption software, securing corporate laptops, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, hospital encryption, MDM, healthcare

• HIPAA Laptop Encryption: Amedisys Notifies Of Possible Data Breach Of Encrypted Devices

  Is the use of encryption a silver-bullet for HIPAA covered entities that are looking to gain safe harbor from the notification policies found under the HITECH Breach Notification Rule? Generally, yes. There is a caveat, however, as Amedisys's recent... Posted Mar 17 2015, 03:52 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: theft, HIPAA, laptop encryption, law, information security, endpoint security, laptop security, data at rest encryption, laptop safe, encryption software, identity theft, laptop encryption solution, endpoint security breach, laptop security software, personal laptop encryption, laptop data security, laptop hdd encryption, persistent encryption, encryption law, encryption software provider, laptop encryption provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, hospital encryption, healthcare

• Data Breach Law: Wyoming Updates Laws On Data Privacy

  Wyoming has approved two Senate bills that update the state's data privacy laws. Senate Files 35 and 36 expand on the definition of what constitutes a breach of personal information, and what steps organizations must take when a data breach takes... Posted Feb 17 2015, 07:32 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data security, law, cryptography software, computer data security, information security, data at rest encryption, encryption software, hard disk encryption, endpoint security breach, hdd encryption software, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, encryption standard, media encryption and protection, personal information encryption, government encryption, MDM