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Over the last 15 years, eCommerce has fundamentally changed the way we buy things. Before the advent of eCommerce, individuals and businesses looking to purchase items were forced to either shop from store to store, or search through stacks of paper catalogs and then call the merchant to order. Now you can sit at a computer in [...] On May 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a new rule recommending that patients have the right to ask for a report on who has accessed their medical records. The recommendation has been out for public comment since that time. A number of healthcare organizations including the Medical Group [...] With the National Health Information Network Direct (NHIN Direct) working to create a standard for the transfer of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), the need for segmented and secure patient records is becoming apparent to all who are working on this technology. A segmented EHR would allow for providers with different roles to access only the portions [...] With everyone using smart phones for personal use, will the government be forced to accept them in the work place? According to Cisco data traffic numbers, global mobile data traffic will increase by a factor of 26 by 2015. With all those phones in service, there will be overlap with the workplace. Linda Cureton, the CIO of [...] Having your credit card stolen is a major concern for any cardholder. Combine that with the responsibility of buying supplies for the government and it is enough to lose sleep over. Attacks on payment card processing systems are on the rise. Organized internet thieves target all sizes of on-line merchants. According to a study by the [...] How will you stay safe when surfing the web this new year? We’d like to offer some tips. Security takes up a large part of our work in building a web site for the DOD. As we try to keep current on new web attacks, we often find vulnerabilities that cannot easily be fixed. It seems [...] Security has been a top priority for DOD in 2010. On November 3, 2010, the Department of Defense announced that U.S. Cyber Command had achieved Full Operational Capability (FOC). The mission of Cyber Command is to keep intruders out of government websites. This has been a primary focus of security personnel over the past several years [...] Agencies across the Federal Government are increasing efforts to identify and fix security flaws. These programs are probing both IT Security and Physical security in an attempt to measure the effectiveness of current security measures. One of the agencies testing the effectiveness of current security measures is the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). A recent article published by [...] This picture by Dustin Sacks shows the extreme measures one can take to feel secure. It’s amusing that only one of the hundred or so locks actually anchors the bike to the bike rack. Government web pages need to be secure, but currently there are many, many, different security practices—so many that it can be over-whelming. [...] |
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