Medical device inventory is a challenge for most organizations. Just as with computers and mobile devices, though, you can’t understand your risks and security requirements if you don’t know what you have out there. A medical device treasure hunt is what it turns out to be when you make a dedicated effort to find them all in your organization. How do you find them all and how do you worry about protecting them all?
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It happens out of the blue. You get a letter that tells you that there has been a complaint filed and an investigation has been opened by OCR. That may not be the best day of your life. Just the thought of opening one of those letters can make some people feel queasy. If you have ever experienced that moment you don’t have it high on your lists of things to do again. Let’s review the kinds of things you may be asked to answer when under and investigation.
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In the past few weeks, the nerd news has been full of network security alerts and discussions about issues potentially lurking on every network, especially smaller ones. These are not the things we normally worry about either. You usually think Windows, Office, Adobe, etc patches are the main alerts to worry about on your network. These are new alerts that could be in every network you use including home, public wifi, and work. Per usual, we are here to explain them as best we can - in English. Tech folks you should listen up to what we expect you to be doing for our listeners who rely on you, too.
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Secureworld Atlanta just finished up. Turns out cyber experts do agree about many of the same issues we discuss here. Two days of discussions amongst CISOs, ISOs, security techies, etc. about what to worry about and what to do for cyber protections. Yes, there was a lot of really nerdy discussions but the good news is the central themes do not require geek speak to share with you.
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