Password managers: not Ft. Knox, but far better than the alternatives

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A recent security review of several prominent password managers was released with, in my opinion, over-sensationalized findings. Some prominent password managers such as 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and LastPass expose unencrypted passwords in local memory after the password manager has been locked. This doesn’t mean that just anyone had access to your passwords. They would have …

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Understanding a HIPAA Assessment – Part 2

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In Part 1: Before the HIPAA Assessment, we talked about the structure and content of the HIPAA law and compliance framework. In this part we’ll dive into how we actually perform the assessment. Part 2: Understanding the HIPAA Assessment methodology Since we are cybersecurity professionals, we’ll focus on the Security Rule for this part. Remember the …

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HIPAA Compliance

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What is HIPAA compliance? HIPAA compliance helps protect your private health records from theft or improper use. At the highest level, it establishes rules for when and how health care information can be used. Through this, it mostly restricts use to providing health care for the individual. Information can also be used for research and …

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Risk-Based Security

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Cyber security is a risk management process. In it’s simplest form, that’s it. People worry about it and are afraid of it because it’s so technically complex and broad. Once you get past that tech and complexity, it’s just managing risk. If you have a good resource to find and present the risks, you can …

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Meltdown and Spectre

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By now you’ve probably heard of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. These are good examples of how more prominent cyber security news is specifically reported in the mainstream news channels. Most of the time when it makes it this far, you know it’s bad. These are big in that they affect the core of how …

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