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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 …

Don’t view HIPAA fines as cost a of doing business – FierceCIO

compliancesoftware — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:12:41 +0000

If anyone doubted that there is a cost to ignoring privacy regulations, $5.3 million in penalties doled out last week for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should put such doubt to rest. Not only is …

Microsoft Fights Google for Government Dollars – PCWorld Business Center

compliancesoftware — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:26:30 +0000

Microsoft also said it was close to getting FISMA certification for its BPOS services. It has already achieved the certification for its data centers and expects to complete the process for the applications within a month or so via Microsoft …

NIST to Offer HIPAA Toolkit – cost $720K

compliancesoftware — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:13:09 +0000

Exeter Government Services of Gaithersburg, Md., will develop the toolkit under a contract valued at $720,000. The application will be posted on the NIST website when it’s completed. The federal economic stimulus package provided funding for the project via NIST …

Half of federal Web sites fail DNS security test

compliancesoftware — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:12:35 +0000

Half of U.S. government Web sites are vulnerable to commonplace DNS attacks because they haven’t deployed a new authentication mechanism that was mandated in 2008, a new study shows. via Half of federal Web sites fail DNS security test.

Cyber bill would reform FISMA, instate new DHS agency and appoint White House-level authority

compliancesoftware — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:11:34 +0000

A controversial Internet security bill proposed in 2010 by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) could yet become law in the current session of Congress, said Jeff Greene, counsel on the majority staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. …

FISMA capstone document released by NIST — Government Computer News

compliancesoftware — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:54 +0000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft of its guidelines for implementing enterprisewide information risk management. The document defines the underlying principles for implementing the Federal Information Security Management Act. via FISMA capstone document released by …

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 …

Survey: Federal IT leaders lack confidence in CyberScope |

compliancesoftware — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:55:05 +0000

According to the result of a new survey published by MeriTalk, an online community for government IT professionals, 85 percent of federal information security leaders have not utilized CyberScope, an online reporting tool designed to reduce the amount of wasted …

GSA Chooses IaaS Vendors for US Government Cloud Computing Initiative “Apps.gov”

compliancesoftware — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:25:32 +0000

In an effort to make cloud solutions more easily available to government agencies, the US General Services Administration (www.gsa.gov) has awarded 11 companies a five-year, government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement to make Infrastructure as a Service solutions available to all levels …