5 Stages Of Grief During A Cyber Attack - Ep 108

The 5 stages of grief during a cyber attack really do follow the process of dealing with grief in those familiar 5 stages. Many don't realize that ransomware attacks aren't always just the result of someone clicking in an email and running a program.  As Erie County Medical Center found out recently, ransomware attacks can come from a hacker being active in your network too.  Those 5 stages of grief during a cyber attack for them and others we have seen is what we will be discussing today.  

We have a special guest with us for today's discussion too.  David Benton with Altep is joining us.  David is a super IT forensics dude.  The CSI of the nerds, so to speak.  He is helping us review this topic.

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10 Ways HIPAA Should Have Stopped Rodeo Drive Breach - Ep 107

A major breach of PHI was announced by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon's office on Jun 1. There are so many things about this case from the fact that it involved a malicious insider to how many different ways proper HIPAA policies and procedures would have stopped it, if not prevented it completely. Celebrity patients records breached in this case may make it hit home with a lot of folks who haven't worried too much about those protections until now.

We have talked about insiders as a major vulnerability a lot lately and this one really makes it big news! 15,000 files with medical and personal information. Added to that are pictures including those of celebrity patients records breached without them even know the pictures existed!

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Disclosure of PHI in May OCR settlements - Ep 106

OCR continued their enforcement trend for 2017 with 2 more settlements announced in May.  These stand out on their own because the focus is specific disclosure of PHI instead of major breaches.  A total of three patients were involved in these large settlements.  This week we review what transpired and what OCR found as violations of privacy for these three patients.

 

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Answering Listener Questions - Ep 105

A wide variety of questions have come in from listeners over the last few weeks. The list is so good we have a whole episode devoted just to answering listener questions.  At least one of these will likely apply to you if not several.

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What should we learn from WannaCry? - Ep 104

All of those ransomware outbreaks we have been dealing with since last year were overshadowed this past week by WannaCry.  This has been called called the most destructive attack ever.  The most concerning part is that was how bad it was but the US wasn't hit that hard.  When these kinds of things happen it is always a good idea to review what you learned from the outbreak and any necessary changes you need to make to protect you from this one happening to you.  The is the topic of the day.  What should we learn from WannaCry?

 

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Managing Third Party Access - Ep 103

You may not even know about all the applications and support logins that vendors use on your applications, systems, and networks. Vendors may set up admin passwords and share them with their whole staff to support you. If they have unlimited access to the systems out there and the usernames and passwords never expire or log off automatically that is certainly not secure. How do you manage all of those?  If there are things that automatically log in and run, what about those?

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No, No, No says OCR in three April settlements - Ep 102

April has had three more OCR resolution announcements. That's a total of 7 cases for $14.3m in 2017 so far. When we covered resolutions recently I kept waiting for another one to come out and gave up. Then, BAM, three in a row!

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