Software Associates specializes in helping medical device vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and mobile environments. There are 6 key business requirements for medical device security: Prevent data leakage of ePHI (electronic protected health information) via the device itself, the management system and or the …
Read more »Software Associates specializes in helping medical device and healthcare technology vendors achieve HIPAA compliance and improve the data and software security of their products in hospital and mobile environments. As I noted here and here, the security and compliance industry is no different from other industries in having fashion and trends. Two years ago, PHR (Personal …
Read more »What do Anat Kamm, Ehud Barak and Meir Dagan have in common? Ehud Barak is current Israeli Minister of Defense, former IDF Chief of Staff and former Prime Minister that led the disastrous withdrawal from Lebanon that fomented Intifada II and then Lebanese War II. Barak is famous for quotes like “If I was a Palestinian, I …
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Trends – security and movie stars, Manuela Arcuri and Monica Bellucci, Verisign and Mcafee. Information security and risk analysis is complex stuff, with multiple dimensions of people, software, performance, management, technology, assets, threats, vulnerabilities and control relationships. This is why it’s hard to sell security to organizations. But, information security is also a lot like fashion with cyclical …
Read more »Don’t break the build. There is absolutely no question that the build process is a pivot in the software quality process. Build every day, don’t break the build and do a smoke test before releasing the latest version. This morning, I installed the latest build of an extremely complex network security product from one of …
Read more »Every so often my ISP calls us up and asks to speak with the IT manager or the person who is responsible for the network. This time it was Netvision offering me a special deal on Symantec anti-virus and a $5/month service package for virus updates. Well, I said “We don’t use Windows, and I …
Read more »Yesterday I spent most of the day re-installing one of the workstation in the office with Ubuntu 11.10. I like what I saw, but the Unity interface is not my cup of tea so I installed Gnome – what they call Classic Ubuntu. In principle I shut down as many operating services as I can …
Read more »Clay Shirky writes on Foreign Affairs this week Arguing for the right of people to use the Internet freely is an appropriate policy for the United States, both because it aligns with the strategic goal of strengthening civil society worldwide and because it resonates with American beliefs about freedom of expression By switching from an …
Read more »This article describes a plan and implementation process for disaster recovery planning. The secret to success in our experience is to involve the local response team from the outset of the project. Copyright 2006 D.Lieberman. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License The disaster recovery plan is designed to assist companies in …
Read more »Let’s start with the short version of the answer – use your common sense before reading vendor collateral. I think PT Barnum once said “There is a sucker born every minute” in the famous Cardiff Giant hoax – (although some say it was his competitor, Mr. George Hull. Kachina Dunn wrote how Microsoft got security …
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