HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials
The golden rules of HIPAA compliance for your clinical trials Flask Data provides a one-stop cloud subscription for EDC, data management and statistics. Welcome to the 21st Century – cloud, on-demand, use as much as you need and eliminate project management overheads and vendor lock-in. As Flask Data customers progress through their clinical trial journey to FDA clearance […]
The death of the anti-virus
Does anti-virus really protect your data? Additional security controls do not necessarily reduce risk. Installing more security products is never a free lunch and tends to increase the total system risk and cost of ownership, as a result of the interaction between the elements. We use the quantitative threat analysis tool – PTA that enables […]
DLP for telecom service providers
A customer case study: Using DLP to protect customer data at a telecom service provider Our first data loss prevention (DLP) project was in 2005 with 013 Barak – now 013 Barak/Netvision. It followed on the heels of an extensive business vulnerability assessment and management level decision to protect customer data. It’s significant that 013 […]
Why your IT vendor doesn’t want you to do a risk analysis
Did you ever have a feeling that your IT integrator was treating you like a couple of guys selling you a Persian rug? “Take it now – it’s so beautfiful, just perfect for your living room, a steal for only $10,000 and it’s on sale” and when you ask if it will last, they tell […]
10 guidelines for a security audit
What exactly is the role of an information security auditor? In some cases, such as compliance by Level 1 and 2 merchants with PCI DSS 2.0, external audit is a condition to PCI DSS 2.0 compliance. In the case of ISO 27001, the audit process is a key to achieving ISO 27001 certification (unlike […]
Less regulation, increased data security
Data security compliance regulation such as PCI DSS 1.2 is a double-edged sword – as a security checklist it’s an important step for the payment card industry but too much regulation, especially for small to mid-sized businesses is too much of a good thing. As my maternal grandmother, who spoke fluent Yiddish would yell at […]
The death of regulation
I recently ran into a 2 year old post that decried the use of the term extrusion prevention calling it the “worst tech term of the year” I will cut the author of the article some slack as it was back in 2007 and a lot of folks were just coming to grips with the […]
People should be very frightened of the FSA
Fear is a good deterrent for individuals – but, will it work for large corporations? I don’t know, but for sure the UK FSA believes in fear. Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants pledged in a confrontational speech last week that the UK regulator would be far more “intrusive and direct” in its […]
