HIPAA Compliance and Working From Home When businesses choose to have their employees work from home there is a lot to consider, especially if those businesses work with protected health information (PHI). HIPAA compliance and working from home can be a difficult feat, as HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Rule standards must be upheld. HIPAA… Read More »
By now, you may have heard about the massive ransomware attack that has struck over 150 countries, including The United States, over the past week. If health care data taken hostage in a ransomware attack is unencrypted, it could constitute a HIPAA violation. Any electronic protected health information (ePHI) that is affected by a breach… Read More »
A recent report indicates that, on average, there have been 4,000 daily ransomware attacks since early 2016 (a 300% increase over the 1,000 daily ransomware attacks reported in 2015). 1 Ransomware exploits human and technical weaknesses to gain access to an organization’s technical infrastructure in order to deny the organization access to its own data… Read More »