Info Risk Today Podcast

Privacy and security specialist Phyllis Patrick offers practical tips on preparing for the upcoming federal HIPAA compliance audits.

Susan McAndrew of the HHS Office for Civil Rights discusses recent high-profile HIPAA cases, upcoming state attorneys general training and the pending HIPAA audit program.

This week's report focuses on one story: Senate WikiLeaks hearing, in which administration officials explained how the WikiLeaks episode occurred and what's being done to prevent such a breach from occurring again.

Joy Pritts of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT says the office intends to develop standards that would give patients the ability to exclude clinicians from accessing certain portions of their electronic health records.

In the initial wake of Japan's devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami, business continuity plans have been tested, and organizations now are dealing with severe aftershocks and a growing national crisis, says Alan Berman, executive director of DRI International.

SWIFT's Gottfried Leibbrandt says conflicting regulatory mandates could further fragment the international payments market.

Pay-at-the-pump card skimming is back, just in time for spring break; and Editorial Director Tom Field shares thoughts from Phoenix about BAI's recent Payments Connect conference.

Pay-at-the-pump card skimming is back, just in time for spring break; and Editorial Director Tom Field shares thoughts from Phoenix about BAI's recent Payments Connect conference.

This week's top news and views: State AGs to Get HIPAA Lawsuit Training; Eight Breach Prevention Tips; Evolving Uses for Smart Cards.

Domain Name Security - it's one of the most neglected aspects of information security, but critical to healthcare organizations.

Iowa CISO Jeff Franklin explains how collecting real-time information helps the state information security office transition its focus from technology to risk management.

Skimming remains the top threat to ATMs worldwide, but certain regions in Europe and Latin America are also seeing a rise in logical security breaches. Bottom line: ATMs are under attack.

Russ Jones of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network describes why the delivery system shifted from magnetic stripe cards to smart cards for a variety of applications.

The Internet is inherently insecure, and the only way to ensure today's evolving information systems is to build them upon three pillars of trust.

Today's technology is not adequately used, says attorney Lucy Thomson.

For former New York State CISO Will Pelgrin, mobile devices, insiders and old infrastructure represent the major challenges local and state governments face in 2011 in securing information technology.

The Smart Card Alliance's Vanderhoof says U.S. card issuers will likely rely on contactless mag-stripe technology to bridge a payments migration to EMV.

The CISO's CISO still sways government infosec from the outside

Patrick discusses how to consolidate network traffic monitoring into a single appliance and management console, along with web application security and PCI compliance.

This week's top news and views: New NIST guidance focuses on risk management; DHS seeks hundreds of millions of dollars for cybersecurity projects; and former New York State CISO Will Pelgrin on federal-state-local IT collaboration.