In this day and age of rampant cybercrime, protecting a patient’s electronic health information is of the utmost importance. But, how do you know if the protections are adequate? Well, that’s where the HIPAA Security Rule comes in. What is the difference between the privacy and security of health information? With respect to health information, […]
HIPAA’s encryption requirements fall in a grey area. This is mainly due to two reasons: encryption is required when ‘deemed appropriate’, which means email encryption is not absolutely necessary and ‘mutual consent’ can be used in place of encryption. there are a number of ‘addressable requirements’ pertaining to the technical safeguards as far as ePHI […]
In a question recently submitted to “Ask Erik,” John asked: “How does sending a TLS-encrypted email sometimes become non-compliant? Lets says I send an email from my Office 365 Business account to a gmail.com account which both support TLS encryption. Is it because I do not know what path and what servers the email has […]
We are often asked questions about Cloud Servers and Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and which is better and in what circumstances. We also find that many customers are using these terms without a good understanding of what they mean and the differences between them.
The last thing an architect could imagine is that his company’s proposal for a new commercial building site along a stunning San Francisco Bay view would lose to a competitor with a similar design and infrastructure, a lower bid, and a leaner delivery schedule. It happened. And cyber-espionage was the culprit. New technology spans the globe […]
