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Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

‎13 Low-Budget, High-Impact Ways to Reduce Privacy and Cybersecurity Risks in 2025‎

Give Thanks - Cybersecurity and IT leaders are vital to every organization’s success. But they might also be burning out now, when you need them more ‎than ever. 93% of security leaders say they’ve considered quitting their...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

HHS’s Proposed Security Rule Updates Will Substantially Increase the Controls Needed to Comply with the Technical Safeguard...

In this week’s installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA Security Rule updates in its January 6 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), we are tackling the proposed updates...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

5 Human Resources Initiatives (And How You Can Make Them A Reality)

With the end of the year coming soon, many in HR are thinking about how they can impact their workforce next year – and the planning starts now! Stuck on what human resources initiatives will make a real impact? We can help!...more

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New York Department of Financial Services Reaches $2,000,000 Settlement with Peer-to-Peer Payment Platform

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On January 23, 2025, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it reached a $2,000,000 settlement as part of a broader consent order with a peer-to-peer payment platform (“P2P”) about its...more

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Cybersecurity Executive Order—Key Implications for the Manufacturing Industry

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On January 16, 2025, President Joe Biden issued the “Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” a comprehensive directive designed to address the growing complexity and...more

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HHS OCR Releases Proposed Updates to HIPAA Security Rule

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On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Security Standards for the Protection of...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OCR Issues Proposed Rule to Strengthen Cybersecurity for ePHI

The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and...more

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Proposed Changes to the HIPAA Security Rule Will Have a Significant Impact on the Health Care Sector

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A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through its Office for Civil Rights, issued the proposed rule HIPAA Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health...more

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The Evolution of Password Management

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In today's digital landscape, robust password management is critical to information security. With the increasing complexity of cyber threats, ensuring secure access to sensitive information has become more critical than...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI versus MFA

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Ask any chief information security officer (CISO), cyber underwriter or risk manager, or cybersecurity attorney about what controls are critical for protecting an organization’s information systems, you’ll likely find...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Three - Cybersecurity Insurance: Coverage Challenges and Changes

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In the second part of their conversation, Ralph Pasquariello, a Senior Partner and cyber liability specialist at The Tech Collective, joins host Juliana Neelbauer to discuss the various reasons for the rapid changes in cyber...more

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HHS Proposes Changes to Strengthen HIPAA Security Rule

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Material updates to the HIPAA Security Rule could be on the way — affecting all HIPAA-regulated entities — for the first time in two decades. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed...more

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OCR Proposes Sweeping HIPAA Security Rule Amendments

Last fall at the Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security 2024 conference, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) promised that before year’s end, it would...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

New Year, New Threats: Practical Tips for Secure Communications after Salt Typhoon

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As a recent DataPhiles post explored, the threat to telecommunications infrastructure and private call records posed by foreign threat actors only continues to grow. In fact, at least one U.S. government agency has urged...more

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How CCOs Can Play a Role in Supply Chain Risk Management

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Look around the business landscape today, and supply-chain risks are everywhere –  which means that sooner or later, those risks will appear on the compliance function’s radar screen too. They probably already have....more

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Bipartisan AG Coalition Urges the FCC to Close Robocall Loophole

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A bipartisan coalition of 47 AGs submitted reply comments in support of the FCC’s proposed rule Improving the Effectiveness of the Robocall Mitigation Database, which would implement additional safeguards designed to increase...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Installing Updates to Fix Bugs and Vulnerabilities

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established more than 20 years ago to provide resources to enable organizations and their employees to stay safer and more secure online. It is an opportunity to focus on four key behaviors...more

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NY-licensed financial services companies must harden incident response plans, improve breach readiness by November 1

New York’s Cybersecurity Regulation continues its phased roll-out on November 1, when licensed financial services companies face a host of new requirements aimed at bolstering breach readiness and improving their ability to...more

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Creating and Managing Long, Unique Passwords

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established more than 20 years ago to provide resources to enable organizations and their employees to stay safer and more secure online...more

Baker Donelson

Lessons From the Suffolk County Ransomware Attack That Apply to All Businesses

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In December 2021, Suffolk County, New York, experienced a significant cybersecurity breach that culminated in a ransomware attack in September 2022. The attack went undetected for months, allowing the attackers to install...more

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Doubling Your Account Security With Multi-Factor Authentication - Update

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established more than 20 years ago to provide resources to enable organizations and their employees to stay safer and more secure online...more

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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – It’s a Good Time to Update Your Training Program

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This month is the 21st annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month, cosponsored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. This year’s theme is “Secure Our World,” continuing what...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Reminder: More New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Requirements Go Into Effect Next Month

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As we have previously written, late last year the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) adopted long-awaited amendments to its Part 500 Cybersecurity Regulations (Part 500). These are some of the most significant...more

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OCR Imposes $240,000 Penalty in HIPAA Ransomware Investigation

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposed a $240,000 civil monetary penalty against Providence Medical Institute in connection with a ransomware attack that revealed...more

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