How HIPAA Law Impacts Patient Data Privacy and Security?
The healthcare industry is a complex world. With doctors, clinics, service providers, patients, and more, running everything smoothly can get messy without regulations. HIPAA law aims to uncomplicate a number of issues around this industry. In this article, you will learn what HIPAA law is, what constitutes this law, who should follow it, and what…
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Sep 29, 2024
GDPR Cookie Consent: Protecting User Privacy and Data
Key Points Introduction Cloud-hosted companies that operate websites with global traffic must know about GDPR and cookies. In May 2020, the EU released an update to clarify their specific position around cookie usage. Cookies give important insights to companies about the activity of their website visitors.Cookies are small files sent by websites to the visitor’s…
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Sep 28, 2024
Cyber Essentials Certification: Ultimate Guide
How much does your business suffer from cyber threats? And with attacks taking a masterful turn, safeguarding sensitive data — and winning customers’ trust — requires more than just a firewall or antivirus software. This is where Cyber Essentials certification comes in, a government-backed framework that helps organizations prevent the most common types of cyberattacks…
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Sep 28, 2024
SOC 2 Report: Building Trust Through Compliance
In today’s day and age, data security is a pivotal selling point. Customers and prospects want to know that their data is secure and that the companies they sign on with have sufficient measures to ensure it stays that way. And so, companies are often tasked with proving the effectiveness of their security controls. A…
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Sep 28, 2024
How to Build an Effective SOC 2 Disaster Recovery Plan
Did you know that infrastructure failures can cost a staggering $100,000 per hour? And that’s not even the worst part—critical application failures can rack up costs between $500,000 and $1 million per hour! Most SMBs can’t bounce back from such massive losses. This is one of the reasons why organizations take their disaster recovery plans…
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Sep 28, 2024
Difference Between NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171
If you’re a government contractor, the burden of demonstrating compliance and implementing certain mandatory resource requirements may seem overwhelming. You’re certainly not alone in this. Organizations that process government contractors are often mandated to become compliant with NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171 among NIST CSF, but which one of the two should your organization become compliant…
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Sep 27, 2024