HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, directly affects all organizations that directly maintain and transmit protected health information. These include: health care providers hospitals physician practices dental practices health plans laboratories health care clearinghouses pharmacies, etc. In addition, business associates who work with these organizations and have access to protected health information, or PHI, now also fall under the HIPAA … [Read more...]
Is Your Business Data Destruction Compliant?
Business owners and managers are aware of cyber-attacks that can threaten the security of their in-use data containing devices – their office computers, servers, and websites – and they have safeguards in place to minimize any threat of illegal access. Nowadays many companies are even insuring themselves against cyber-attacks. But did you know that your end of life data containing devices could pose an expensive threat to your business as well? Most of the business owners and managers that we … [Read more...]