No Password Required: From Heavy Metal to the Front Lines of Cyber Innovation
We get Privacy for work — Episode 7: What Is a WISP and Why Your Organization Must Have One
Herb Stapleton's FBI Experience Proves to be Asset to Dinsmore's Corporate Team
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
2023 DSIR Report Deeper Dive into the Data
Cybersecurity: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: NFTs
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: OCR’s Right of Access Initiative
Hot Topics: Risk Management for Cybersecurity
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: The Expanding Landscape of State Data Privacy Laws
Can Cyber Investigations Be Canned? - Unauthorized Access Podcast
2022 DSIR Report Deeper Dive: Personal Data Deletion
Panel Pursuit: The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Preferred Panel Vendor - Unauthorized Access Podcast
In today’s healthcare environment, compliance is a defining element of patient care quality, operational integrity, and public trust. Oversight from agencies such as the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Centers for Medicare...more
On January 6, 2025 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a Proposed Rule (90 FR 898) to strengthen the HIPAA Security Rule and afford greater cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health...more
As the healthcare sector continues to be a top target for cyber criminals, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule (scheduled to be published in the Federal Register January 6). It...more
President Ronald Reagan famously quipped, "I think you all know that I've always felt that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."1 At an Oct. 23-24, 2024,...more
We are pleased to announce that several of the firm’s practice groups and attorneys were recognized in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, a directory of leading law firms and attorneys. Chambers and Partners annually...more
Cybersecurity attacks, such as malware, phishing emails, and password attacks, are a growing threat to patients and medical practices. Cyber attacks can significantly disrupt patient care, including by exposing confidential...more
October was National Cybersecurity Month. As part of its ongoing focus on HIPAA Security Rule awareness and compliance, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”),...more
We have been quite busy this October, which happens to be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. But, we did not want to let the month go by without some recognition; and we are grateful to the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more
Desiree Moore, Gina Bertolini, and Jackie Hoffman discuss the increasing impact of data security incidents and security breaches on the health care sector. They define what qualifies under HIPAA as a protected health...more
Last week, in its Cybersecurity Summer Newsletter, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published best practices for creating an IT asset inventory list to assist healthcare providers and business associates in understanding...more
Missouri’s Cass Regional Medical Center (CRMC) was recently hit with a ransomware attack. Existing patients continued to receive care, but incoming trauma and stroke patients were diverted to other facilities. The hospital...more
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued an “improved web tool that puts important information into the hands of individuals, empowering them to better identify recent breaches of health information and learn how all...more
Earlier this week, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $400,000 settlement with Metro Community Provider Network (“MCPN”) related to a 2012 HIPAA breach caused by a phishing scam. The phishing scam, carried...more
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) have recently selected a vendor to conduct the second wave of HIPAA audits. These so-called “Phase 2 Audits” are set to commence...more
The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has selected Ashburn, Virginia-based FCi Federal to conduct the next round of HIPAA audits mandated by the HITECH Act. OCR views the audits as a compliance tool that will hopefully get out...more