You’re already working long hours. Economic pressures are growing, and your team is running on empty. Now you need to mitigate yet another problem. Preventing ransomware attacks and mitigating their extreme financial impacts (an average of $8,500/hour of downtime) is essential. The following best practices can help your IT and healthcare administrators protect your systems.
It happens at least every few years: system administrators need to update the security configuration of their servers to keep up with the latest best practices and to close newly found security issues(i.e., via changes to recommended TLS ciphers and protocols). These updates can be rocky. Change often introduces incompatibilities that prevent certain systems or […]
Users tend to reuse passwords to make their life simple. This includes reusing the same passwords across multiple sites and using the same passwords for years and years. This is bad of course. We see it in the news so frequently that no one is surprised that millions of accounts are compromised at companies every […]
If your organization operates in the health sector or processes data for clients that are, then it will need to deal with all ePHI in a HIPAA-compliant manner. This means that HIPAA-compliant software and services are required whenever and wherever protected health information is dealt with. HIPAA regulations limit the range of services that a […]
In a forgotten time, if an organization wanted to secure their communications, all that they had to worry about was their conversations, postage and landlines. If a business was on the cutting edge of technology, it might use a fax machine as well. In 2019, things are a lot more complicated. To start with we, […]
