Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wireless security controls are often too lax for the data they need to protect

Posted on October 6, 2011 by John Abraham in Main | Leave a comment

At Redspin we are often asked to perform wireless security assessments for organizations that have recently deployed or upgraded their wireless infrastructure with top-of-the-line access points (APs), controllers and wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS). Many deployments are to support inter-office mobility – a need that has gone from a rising tide to a tsunami in parallel with the mass adoption of mobile devices such as smart phones and Apple iPads. Virtually every CIO and CSO that I meet these days … →

Healthcare Data Breaches-Insider Job, Cybercrime, or Both?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dan Berger in Main | Leave a comment

As required by section 13402(e) (4) of the HITECH Act, the HHS Secretary must post a list of breaches of protected health information (PHI)  impacting 500 or more individuals. In the past 2 years, over 11.8 million Americans have been affected in nearly 330 separate incidents. This information is contained in a publicly searchable and downloadable database. Thus many organizations (including Redspin) have published “PHI breach reports” which summarize the data and offer conclusions based on the results of the past … →