Tag: breach

Are you Minimizing your Risk by using the Next Generation of Opt In Email Encryption?

September 11, 2015

We have long held that leaving it to each sender/employee to properly enable encryption for each sensitive message (a.k.a “Opt In Encryption”) is too risky.  Why? Any mistake or oversight immediately equals a breach and liability. Instead, LuxSci has always promoted use of “Opt Out Encryption,” in which the account default is to encrypt everything unless […]

WordPress for HIPAA and ePHI? Is that a good idea?

February 12, 2013

For a deep dive, see our white paper: Securing WordPress WordPress is an extremely popular content management system for both blogging and creating web sites.  It’s popular because it is quick to set up, easy to administer, has a very large supported base of add-ons, and looks good.  As a result, many LuxSci customers use […]

Jump/Thumb Drives and PHI Don’t Mix

July 20, 2012

It is very common for the staff of small and medium sized healthcare organizations to store patient data on USB Flash Drives (a.k.a. Jump Drives or Thumb Drives).  This is universally a bad idea and guarantees non-compliance with HIPAA.  Below, I will discuss why and suggest some alternatives to accomplish the same ends. While this article […]