Security

Organizations can take these practical approaches to ramping up talent recruiting, hiring and retention practices specifically for infosec pros.

IDC report says cloud services are transforming IT departments into lines of business as they acquire daily operations tasks instead of carrying them out on their own.

Jamie Lam, data security compliance manager for the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine offers tips for managing "shadow IT" as tech-savvy employees find their own ways to work effectively.

Matt Trevors, a senior member of the technical staff with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, offers help for meeting the HIPAA Security Rule.

Sharon Klein, partner in the Health Sciences Department of Pepper Hamilton, offers tips for audit preparedness, business associate agreements, cyber insurance and more.

Kim Jones, director of the Cybersecurity Education Consortium at Arizona State University discusses the keys to "transformational security.

M.K. Palmore, FBI assistant special agent in charge of San Francisco's Cyber Branch, also describes a fast-evolving threat landscape, explains cyber criminals' focus on ROI and discusses the emerging security trends that concern him the most.

Bruce James, director of cybersecurity architecture at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses its approach to identity and access management, explains its recent focus on patient-centered IAM systems and offers some best practices for other healthcare providers to follow.

Jane Harper, director of privacy and security risk management at Detroit's Henry Ford Health System, discusses the dangers of giving short shrift to risk management, which she says is evolving quickly as it feels the impact of consumerism.

Veterans Choice Program Extension lets vets seek care at private healthcare institutions, buys time for VA Secretary Shulkin to write a more comprehensive plan for veterans’ healthcare needs.