Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

Privacy 118

Privacy Personal data Sales B2B 118

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Twitter’s verification chaos creates authentication conundrum. As a result, the personal data of 244,850 patients was compromised – which likely includes patients’ names and numbers, but protected health information such as dates of birth and health insurance numbers might also be affected.

Phishing 115

Phishing Retail Data breaches Insurance 115

Collibra

JUNE 17, 2022

In 2016, he made the move to Atlanta, Georgia, USA to work at an insurance agency owned by a family member. “I Living the Black experience in corporate America can sometimes feel like you can’t be your authentic self without being judged or stereotyped, Nathaniel shares.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? In an interesting twist, new data hints that organizations with cyber insurance may be relying on it too much, instead of shoring up security to ensure attacks never succeed. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 3, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot!

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued industry guidance for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) regulated entities to take preventative steps to protect against some of the more common, and often successful, cyber-attack techniques. On March 17, 2022, the U.S.

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 88

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Cyber insurance has in some regions encouraged victims to pay as it is cheaper than remediation in some cases. However, many enterprise and large organisations and tech-savvy individuals will realise the benefits of multifactor authentication to secure their accounts. Ransomware will continue to increase. How should you prepare?

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Security IoT Phishing Ransomware 98

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The simplest example may be insurance. Life, health, auto, and other insurance are all designed to help a person protect against losses. Beyond the technology precautions themselves, ongoing training and education about security threats is essential. Also read : Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet.

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Risk Cybersecurity Encryption Access 138

eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Farmers Insurance Exchange, No. In this Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case, the plaintiff alleged that, at the direction of the defendant insurance companies, non-party Farmers Insurance agents James Lohse and Joe Ridgway sent text messages to her without her consent, in violation of the TCPA. In Gould v.

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Insurance Authentication Education Compliance 34

Data Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

DOL guidance provides a series of questions that should serve as a starting point for this review and includes topics such as the service provider’s information security standards, track record, cybersecurity insurance coverage, and cybersecurity validation techniques.

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Cybersecurity Insurance Risk Compliance 68

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Along with celebrating Cyber Security Awareness Month, several exciting events are taking place across the world, aiming to educate people on the latest trends in cybersecurity and privacy. At our booth, we will cover topics such as digital sovereignty, the Schrems II ruling, and modern authentication, including FIDO2 for Microsoft.

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Cybersecurity Cloud Digital transformation Sales 87

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

KMaaS can help organizations comply with industry regulations and standards such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by providing secure key lifecycle management and encryption services.

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Encryption Compliance Cloud Authentication 133

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

Arizona and 15 other states (the “Multistate AGs”) filed the suit in December 2018, asserting claims under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (“HIPAA”) as well as various applicable state data protection laws. million individuals. failed to encrypt the sensitive ePHI. The case was filed in the U.S.

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Data breaches IT Insurance Privacy 58

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Fraudulent Authentication These types of attacks are relevant to ‘long term identities’ where a private key (recovered from a public key) can be used to authenticate to a system for a variety of purposes that include: to create credentials that allow authentication into systems with the aim of causing damage or extracting information.

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Risk Encryption Blockchain Authentication 87

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Access Control Access controls add additional authentication and authorization controls to verify users, systems, and applications to define their access. Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Uses at least two (2FA) or more methods to authenticate a user, such as biometrics, device certificates, or authenticator apps.

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Security Cloud Cybersecurity Access 115

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Education In education and training , AI can tailor educational materials to each individual student’s needs. Insurance With AI, the insurance industry can virtually eliminate the need for manual rate calculations or payments and can simplify processing claims and appraisals.

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Retail Artificial Intelligence Unstructured data Insurance 82

IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

Measures like: Passwords and MFA [multifactor authentication]; Anti-malware software; Regular patching; and Firewalls. That’s why forensic investigation is so important: figure out what happened, what vulnerabilities you need to fix, where staff education is lacking, and so on. Prevention is always better than a cure.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Encryption Data breaches Access 98

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Education, government, energy and manufacturing are others. Similarly, the education sector has also become a soft target for ransomware. Multifactor authentication (MFA) can protect critical applications and devices, as can zero trust security principles. There are, however, some industries at higher risk than others.

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Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity Risk 98

Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. Strong encryption methods for data should be used, and multi-factor authentication will add even another layer of security.

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Computer and Electronics Insurance Compliance Risk 52

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access.

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Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 112

Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Facebook, EBay, Amazon, Twitter and many other large online presences offer similar advantages when it comes to the quick detection of criminal activity and they all offer users two-factor authentication. Google also has an Authenticator App to encourage 2FA 2 factor authentication), Amazon has its own solution for sellers for logins.

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Risk Passwords Data breaches Authentication 40

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

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Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 31

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

The Bureau writes that cyber threat actors are seeking “to profit from a sudden growth in teleworking, increased use of virtual education systems for online classes, a surge in online shopping, public appetite for information related to the pandemic, and the criticality of maintaining functioning critical infrastructure networks.”.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Phishing Authentication Access 52

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Source Authentication. Principle 5.

Cybersecurity 60

Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

Compliance 28

Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 28

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records.

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Encryption IT Passwords IoT 112

HIPAA

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act demands that all HIPAA covered businesses prevent unauthorized access to “Protected Health Information” or PHI. Google uses Ernst and Young third party evaluated and ISO 27001 certified encryption and authentication. Enter Google’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

Compliance 28

Compliance Education Encryption Insurance 28

KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

After signing in with the stolen cookie through a session replay attack, the threat actors leveraged multifactor authentication (MFA) policies that have not been configured using security best practices in order to update MFA methods without an MFA challenge. "A So far it has met our expectations in this regard.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Does Mark typically work with insurance? LANCE : we work closely with insurance. So we we have the experience of educating the client on what to truly expect and what the impacts of certain actions could be, what certain considerations are and things that they should be doing. By no means. So the earlier the better.

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Ransomware Encryption Communications Authentication 40

eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc. “…present yourself as a gift…and put into energy solving someone’s problem,” he said.

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CMS Phishing Communications Insurance 41

eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc. “…present yourself as a gift…and put into energy solving someone’s problem,” he said.

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CMS Phishing Communications Insurance 41

Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

My wife, who happens to be an insurance defense attorney, well, we were closely following some of the court challenges, specifically in Wisconsin as they relate to public health measures in response to COVID. There has to be authentication for your meetings. It’s not uniform by any means. They’re everywhere. The first is a no-brainer.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Passwords IT Risk 52

KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

This data makes it clear that security awareness training designed to educate users on the need to be continually vigilant, regardless of the device, is critical to an organization remaining protected against attacks. While researching his recent book Hacking Multifactor Authentication, Roger tested over 150 MFA solutions.

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Phishing Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 105

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily. And why is that?

Insurance 40

Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Do you use push-based multi-factor authentication (MFA)? Budget Ammo] Cyber Insurers Turn Attention to Catastrophic Hacks. Some major cloud providers are being excluded from cyber insurance policies by carriers worried about the potential for major cyberattacks. We announced the brand-new mobile learner app. Save My Spot!

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Australian health insurance giant fell victim to ransomware in October, as a result of which the personal data of 9.7 Health data, by contrast, enables attackers to operate under the radar, typically to commit health insurance fraud. First, it employed multi-factor authentication to protect employee accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tech companies are adopting cybersecurity by design, embedding encryption, biometrics, and multi-factor authentication into products. Government initiatives and awareness campaigns will educate users on phishing and malware threats.

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