Reported data breaches show that HIPAA violation settlements are on the upswing, both in terms of the number of individuals affected and financial cost. We’re not done with 2017, yet OCR’s updated breach portal shows that nearly 4 million individuals have been affected by over 200 healthcare data ...

We’re proud to announce that Ostendio has been shortlisted as a finalist in the “Best Technology Startup” category for the Third Annual Timmy Awards. The Timmy Awards recognizes the top workplaces for tech professionals. Ostendio joins a list of notable finalists including LiveSafe, Capterra and ...

Has your organization experienced a data breach yet? Increasingly, odds are that you will, if you haven’t already. According to Protenus, 2017 is currently on track to exceed 2016’s trend of 'one health data breach per day.’ Although ransomware is nearly unavoidable if pointed in your direction, ...

Are you always on the look out for the best InfoSec conferences to attend? We've found several helpful resources to point you in the right direction, as well as highlighting a couple of our favorites.

Are you considering HITRUST but haven’t yet put your HIPAA house in order? That’s similar to starting college when you’ve not yet earned your high school diploma. While both HIPAA and HITRUST share the common goal of protecting healthcare data and personal health information (PHI), they differ in ...

Whenever we read the latest headlines on cybercrimes and data breaches, it’s easy to slough it off as being something that only happens to the big guys, like England’s NHS with the WannaCry malware. Unfortunately, that’s not true. Anyone can be hacked.

Sixty percent of respondents to the 2017 Black Hat survey believe that a successful cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure will occur in the next two years, reports Dark Reading.

As America gears up for hot dogs, fireworks and celebrating with friends and family, keep in mind these five security tips to help protect your personal data while traveling or away from the office.

Data breaches are at an all-time high in 2017. Many organizations cover data under one big security blanket. But what if you’re missing some of the biggest contributing factors to securely protecting your data?

Ransomware is growing in popularity because it works. A recently released study by Google estimates that ransomware victims have paid over $25million in ransom the past 2 years. When MedStar Health, a health system serving the Baltimore/Washington region, was hit by a cyberattack in 2016, they ...

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What is ISO-27001?

SOC stands for Service Organizational Control. There are three types of SOC reports, but we’ll focus on the second one, which is “designed for the growing number of technology and cloud computing entities that are becoming very common in the world of service organizations” according to ssae16.org. ...

It’s reported to have been one of the largest cyber extortion attacks to-date. The WannaCry (aka WanaCryptor 2.0) ransomware attack hit globally and hit hard. In the U.S., security analysts have leaped into the fray with patches and detection software, trying to stay ahead of the infiltration to ...

Why is healthcare so heavily and successfully targeted by cybercrime? It’s a tough question, but after a record number of breaches last year – nearly 90% of all successful ransomware attacks were on hospitals – it’s one that needs to be asked.