The Department of Health and Human Services has updated its HIPAA security risk assessment tool to better assist small and mid-sized healthcare entities and their vendors in performing a comprehensive ...

Corporations today face increased levels of risk from software vulnerabilities hidden in their business-technology systems and from hackers and cyber crooks who try to steal proprietary corporate ...

Risk assessment is a systematic method of analyzing risk. It started in the nuclear and aeronautical industries, and has now spread to many other industries including the finance, transportation, ...

While security threats evolve and challenges to managing organizational risk become more seemingly every year, the foundation of securing the business is knowing and understanding its vulnerabilities ...

[Excerpted from "Six Steps To A Risk-Based Security Strategy," a new, free report posted this week on Dark Reading's Risk Management Tech Center.] Achieving total security in an organization is ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required ...

Regardless of their political beliefs, Americans want to prevent another terrorist attack from occur­ring in the United States. In the face of increasingly diffuse threats and adversaries ...

Is Your Entity in Compliance? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as modified by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HIPAA) ...

If the pandemic and civil disturbances last year taught us anything, it was that we need to be resilient and proactively develop programs to support a safe and secure environment for businesses and ...

Cyber security risk assessment and management is a multidisciplinary field that combines elements of computer science, operational research and strategic decision-making to evaluate, mitigate and ...