The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2021

Back in the mid-1990s, big banks and insurance companies came up with something called “bespoke assessments” as the approach for assessing third party vendor risk. So much time and energy was put into the administrative exercise of just requesting data and responding to questionnaires,” Kneip says. “By Visibility boost.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The vast majority of cybersecurity decision makers – 91 percent, in fact – find it difficult to select security products due to unclear marketing, according to the results of a survey of 800 cybersecurity and IT decision makers released today by email security company Egress. Assessing AI and Security Training.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. Bill said these crooks have figured out a way to tap into those benefits as well.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The stolen information allegedly included names and identifying information, hashed passwords, security questions and answers, family information, Social Security numbers, lab results, health insurance information, doctor’s names, and medical conditions, among other things.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. The Act aims to improve the cyber security of digital products across the EU by introducing mandatory cyber security requirements for all hardware and software. Organisation name Sector Location Data exfiltrated?

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Data Matters

JANUARY 28, 2022

The advisory was promptly endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (“GCHQ”), a UK intelligence agency. Create, Maintain, and Exercise a Cyber Incident Response, Resilience, and Continuity of Operations Plan.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Not disclosing, subject to specified exceptions, a consumer’s genetic data to certain entities ( e.g. , those responsible for making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance or employment). Violations of the Act are subject to civil penalties. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to HIPAA and the HITECH Act.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Incident readiness includes having a state-of-the-art incident response plan, conducting tabletop exercises, implementing a vendor management program and having adequate cybersecurity insurance. Sotto stresses that tabletop exercises are especially important in building muscle memory to handle the inevitable cyber attack.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 18, 2020

While the transition to remote appointments may help flatten the curve of Covid-19 cases and provide much-needed relief to medical professionals, it does create a new set of cybersecurity concerns, especially regarding compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ).

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CGI

MAY 27, 2016

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? For example, we might nominate: The IT security manager to handle a ransomware incident; Our external accountant to investigate financial fraud; or.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 24, 2022

Similar to the CPA and VCDPA, the UCPA contains exemptions for covered entities, business associates and protected health information subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), and financial institutions or personal data subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”).

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

Security researchers are jailbreaking large language models to get around safety rules. Soon, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI had GPT-4 spouting homophobic statements, creating phishing emails, and supporting violence." Security Culture Benchmarking feature lets you compare your organization's security culture with your peers NEW!

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 10, 2023

What can your organization achieve with an offensive security platform? According to a new Forrester Consulting study , the IBM Security Randori platform delivered a 303% ROI over 3 years and paid for itself in less than 6 months by helping to mitigate risk exposure, better prioritize risk response decisions and act faster.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 24, 2025

This EU regulation, which came into force on January 16, 2023, and will apply as of January 17, 2025, aims to fortify the IT security of financial entities and ensure the European financial sector can withstand major operational disruptions. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is one such regulation that demands your attention.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 18, 2023

The bill also contains a number of exemptions, including exceptions for financial institutions, affiliates, and data subject to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, covered entities and business associates under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The regulation includes elements of both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) cybersecurity regulation. Therefore, covered hospitals may need to revise their risk analysis and management process to comply with the new regulation.

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. ceding insurer could be eligible for the same reduced collateral requirements that would apply to qualifying EU reinsurers under the revised CFR Model Laws.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, the Act would not extend to entities covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as well as entities covered by the California Insurance Code.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2020 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) from July 27 to August 14, 2020. NAIC Considers Comments to the Group Capital Calculation Template and Instructions and Related Revisions to the Insurance Holding Company Act . GCC Template and Instructions.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2018 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in San Francisco, California, from November 15 to 18, 2018. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data. systemic risk of insurers with other parts of the financial system, notably the banking.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

billion in total potential damages by year-end Although the impact on Change Healthcare and UHG will be quantified for the US Security Exchange Commission (SEC), the impact on the US healthcare industry is more difficult to measure. CNN interviewed small practitioners stranded without payments , and UGH wound up providing $6.5

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Insurance blunts financial losses.) The problem is that both the financial and risk costs of outsourcing can be hidden—delayed in time and masked by complexity—and can lead to a false sense of security when companies are actually entangled by these invisible dependencies. Stock prices depress only temporarily.

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AIIM

APRIL 12, 2022

The classic example is the insurer that won’t pay for care that a doctor determines a patient needs. Insurers are about profit; doctors are about delivering the best care. With collaborative videoconferencing: Low-income patients without insurance can use the Emergency Room less often. Information Security. Telemedicine.

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. Third party processor agreements need to be reviewed in the context of GDPR compliance obligations, particularly, compliance accountability, data transfer provisions and data security requirements. Want more information?

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

There are also new requirements around transfers of data outside of the UAE and requirements to keep data secure, and to notify the new data protection regulator, and in some circumstances data subjects, of data breaches. Data security. The PDPL imposes strict requirements around data security. Data breaches.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The group has diversified its activities into the banking and insurance, travel agency and e-commerce sectors. Between June 8, 2018 and April 6, 2019, the CNIL received 15 complaints from individuals relating to the exercise of their data protection rights with affiliates of the Carrefour Group.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Moving to Africa, South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will be enforced later this year, and aims to ensure that organizations operating in South Africa exercise proper care when collecting, storing or sharing personal data. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security.

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Data Matters

JUNE 29, 2018

identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number or passport number. Businesses cannot discriminate against consumers who exercise any of their rights under AB 375.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

24867-02-11 IDI Insurance v. the allocation of responsibility for databases between health insurers and primary health care providers. In IDI Insurance , ILITA fined an insurance company for using information concerning the attachment of a client’s account in denying that client insurance.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 25, 2020

Performing a task carried out in the public interest: Article 6(1)(e) of the GDPR may also provide a legal basis where data processing is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the course of exercising official authority vested in the data controller.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

To achieve these, local data processing or anonymization of data must be considered; The security and confidentiality of the personal data processed in the context of connected vehicles must be guaranteed, in particular by implementing measures such as the encryption of the communication channel. . geolocation data; biometric data; etc.)

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Concurrently, the OCC , the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the Agencies) released a joint statement alerting the industry of their intent to provide additional guidance in the coming months concerning certain activities related to cryptoassets conducted by banking organizations.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Some of these steps include: Conduct a data mapping exercise. The data mapping exercise will provide an organisation with a snapshot of how its data is collected and managed. After conducting the data mapping exercise, the information will need to be systematised into a format that can be readily accessed by the organisation.

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