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Massachusetts General Hospital Settles Potential #HIPAA Violations

compliancesoftware — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:13:22 +0000

The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Inc. (Mass General) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1,000,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, the U.S. Department …

HHS Levies Civil Penalty for HIPAA Privacy Rule Violation – iHealthBeat

compliancesoftware — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:21:33 +0000

On Tuesday, the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced that it has issued its first-ever civil penalty for HIPAA privacy rule violations, the Washington Post reports.OCR fined Cignet Health — a health center based in Maryland – $4.3 million for failing …

Nominations Open for PCI Board

compliancesoftware — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:13:27 +0000

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), which oversees the PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard that card-accepting retailers must follow, today announced that nominations for election to the 2011-2013 PCI SSC board of advisors are now being accepted …

Dell To Acquire Secureworks

compliancesoftware — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:20:59 +0000

Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SecureWorks® Inc., a globally recognized provider of information-security services. SecureWorks’ industry leading Security-as-a-Service solutions include Managed-Security Services, Security and Risk Consulting Services and Threat Intelligence. The acquisition expands Dell’s …

Amazon Web Services achieves Level 1 PCI compliance

compliancesoftware — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:17:23 +0000

Amazon Web Services LLC AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon.com recently announced it has achieved Level 1 compliance with the Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS. Merchants and other service providers can now run their applications on AWS PCI-compliant …

Google wins email, apps contract with U.S. GSA | ZDNet

compliancesoftware — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:25:02 +0000

Over the summer, the company launched Google Apps for Government and announced that it had received FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) certification, which allowed it to store sensitive, yet unclassified, information, which makes up about 80 percent of all …

Visa offers new guidance on securing payment applications – Computerworld

compliancesoftware — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:07:22 +0000

Visa on Tuesday announced a set of security best practices for vendors of payment applications and for the systems integrators and resellers responsible for implementing and managing them. The guidelines are designed to address continuing vulnerabilities in the payment chain …

Visa Provides Guidance on Secure Implementation and Management of Payment Applications — SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ –

compliancesoftware — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:04:10 +0000

Visa today announced global industry best practices for payment application vendors, integrators and resellers that implement, install or manage payment-related systems on behalf of merchants. The best practices developed by Visa in collaboration with the SANS Institute are designed to …

Healthcare Breaches Spin Out Of Control

compliancesoftware — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:09:50 +0000

If the past week is any indication and I’m afraid it is, health care companies are doing an abysmal job at protecting personal health care data.This evening the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced that state officials …

Connecticut AG reaches agreement with Health Net over data breach

compliancesoftware — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:27:56 +0000

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that his office has reached a settlement with health insurance company Health Net over a failure to secure patient information on almost a half-million state enrollees, and subsequent failure to promptly notify consumers …