Q: My employer is trying to monitor its systems more closely. Which systems in particular are the most important with respect to monitoring? Which activities should the organization monitor?
When you think about a data breach, you probably think about things like maximum fines and penalties of $1.5 million, willful neglect, corrective action plans, and so forth, right? Well, think again.
Cybersecurity threats, cloud computing, proliferation of mobile device technology, and the pervasiveness of social media directly affect healthcare operations and privacy and information security programs?as does the explosion of data, which makes safeguarding information assets increasingly more important and difficult.
There's a new threat on the healthcare horizon. Medical identity theft is running rampant and hackers are targeting merchants' credit card systems. It's only a matter of time before the two worlds collide.
