The accrescent relationship between technology and compliance has brought significant changes to the business industry. Evolving market conditions, entry of new players, innovative technologies, and customer needs all play pivotal roles than ever before as requirements continue to grow and expand to create new demands of compliance functions.
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How to be ADA Website Compliant: A Step-By-Step Guide
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HITRUST Enforcement & Penalties: What You Need to Know
The HITRUST Act (Health Information Trust Alliance) establishes the framework for online healthcare information security, while also encouraging healthcare organizations to adopt digital patient files. Digitizing healthcare information makes it easier to share between approved organizations or personnel. Patients can also access their records online, eliminating the need for them to request paper copies. (more…)
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Top Cyber Hygiene Tips You Need to Know
Make your users change their passwords every three months. Require at least eight alphanumeric characters with at least one letter capitalized and one special character — not an exclamation point because everybody does that now. Change all of your default passwords in the same way. Change all of your default usernames, as well. Lock your building and your server rooms. Never use WEP on your WiFi. Secure it with WPA2 CCMP encryption. And please run updates and patches as soon as possible after they are released.
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What Is Considered PII Under GDPR?
There has often been confusion around what is Personally Identifiable Information under GDPR and how businesses can protect themselves against getting hit with a fine for lack of compliance. At times though it is difficult to distinguish what personally identifiable information (PII) is in general and what your business needs to do to remain compliant. Thankfully, we’ve created this comprehensive guide that can help you understand what PII is and how you can maintain compliance with GDPR’s rules that pertain to PII.
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The Future of Data Privacy in the US
In 2019, data privacy was a big topic of discussion for everyone from the regular Joe/Jane user to the Supreme Court and the European Union. Now that we have crossed over the bridge to 2020, data privacy in the U.S. is about to become just as important as data security.
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What Is the Current Situation With CCPA?
In an era where information can easily be captured, shared, and stored, the privacy of personal data is becoming an essential area of focus in today’s electronic world. While customers are starting to become savvier and educated about the Internet and privacy concerns, they are also becoming more distrustful about how organizations collect and use this information.
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Top Open Source Scanning Tools
The internet has evolved over the past few decades. Modern technology has increased in speed, efficiency, and productivity. However, coming with the progressive evolution of the internet is also the inimical rise of cybercrime. As often as everyday, we hear news of websites a data breach or websites getting hacked somewhere. Cybercriminals have developed more sophisticated hacking techniques and tools that threaten to destroy corporations all over the world.
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10 Things You Should Know About the ADA Website Standards
In 2018, there were at least 2,258 website accessibility lawsuits federal courts all over the United States under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that claimed people with disabilities could not properly use some certain websites because of unresponsiveness to assistive technologies. This was a huge increase of about 177 percent from 814 of such lawsuits in 2017.
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Industries Most at Risk for a Data Breach
The motivation of threat actors largely determines why a certain industry is targeted, namely what a threat actor can gain from the attack. Whether it be money, prestige, or a public platform, understanding the motivation behind attacks shines a light on the industries most at risk for data breaches.
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CCPA Compliance Checklist: A Beginner’s Guide
Business transparency is becoming more important than once thought in the consumer age. As technology continues to evolve, consumers are now taking control of what they want to see, trust, and research by investigating product materials and the overall history of an organization.
After all, products and services are not only a solution to a problem but can also deliver experience and personal connection. According to the 2016 Label Insight Transparency ROI Study, 73 percent of consumers are willing to pay more for a product that promises complete transparency.