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Use port knocking to bypass firewall rules
Techguide Find out how port knocking works, and learn why port knocking sometimes presents its own security concerns.
Tags: Security, Network security, Mobile
Use a data destruction policy to safeguard corporate secrets
Techguide The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
Disaster recovery challenges for the healthcare industry: File servers
Techguide Because of its critical nature, data on healthcare industry file servers requires special disaster recovery planning. Find out some of the key issues for preventing data loss and ensuring uptime in the healthcare environment.
Tags: Hardware, Servers, Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, File servers
New privacy guidelines for US e-health records
News As U.S. president-elect Barack Obama calls for widespread adoption of e-medical records, the Department of Health and Human Services is offering more privacy guidelines for them.
Tags: Privacy, Data security, Security Management, Service level management, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, personal health information, E-health, Mike Leavitt, electronic health record, accountability
Video surveillance: Four ways to protect privacy
Techguide More employers are exploring implementation of inexpensive video systems to protect employees and the business. Before writing the check, however, there are several regulatory and employee relation safeguards to consider.
Tags: Video, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Business security, Employee, Video Surveillance, Privacy, long-term care, monitoring, job
IBM highlights new threats
News IBM highlighted that virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS (software-as-a-service) are new vectors for security attacks, together helping to drive the security market in Thailand to around US$28 million this year.
Tags: Hacking, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Security, Thailand, Insider Threat, Digital Identity, Harley-Davidson Inc., financial accounting
Should new 'Red Flags' rules concern security managers?
Techguide Now that the deadline for compliance with the U.S. regulation is up, the work carved out for IT security heads depends on the level of controls within the organization.
Tags: Regulations, Data security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Business security, Security Manager, Information Security, Red Flag Software, Identity Theft, compliance
Google Health beta test begins
News Company's personal portal for storing medical records essentially creates a master database of an individual's health information.
Tags: Search, Data security, Google Inc., Beta, software, health insurance, U.S., health care, spokesman, Google Apps
The 10 best IT certifications
Techguide Debatable or not, here are some of the accreditation that a technology consultant believes hold value for IT pros.
Tags: Certification, Personal development, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT project management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Certification, Security, Skill, Expertise
Storage, comply!
Insight tech dialog Starting April, being compliant with the HIPAA security regulations becomes serious business for US companies. IT audit consultant Cass Solomon talks about HIPAA and achieving compliance in storage management.
HIPAA compliance and disaster recovery
Techguide Find out what your disaster recovery plan must cover in order to comply with current HIPAA regulations.
Intranet data requires a good security review
Insight Most organizations have had intranets up and running for a while. Now, CIOs need to step back and review security measures to make sure employee and corporate data is safe and to ensure compliance with new regs relating to health data on intranets.
Mercury tools aim for IT data compliance
Insight New applications and hosted services to help IT departments comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.
Tags: IT Management, Software
3 Questions: Putting a lid on personal Web use
Insight A COO of a medical practice talks about why he uses an enterprise Internet access management application called WebSense.
Health industry must prepare for privacy regulations
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