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9 Tips for Implementing Barcode and RFID Systems
Building an information system around barcodes and RFID tags requires long-term planning.
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ASNA Wings: RPG Display Modernization Gets Wings
ASNA Wings uses the IBM Rational Open Access RPG Edition (OAR). This is an IBM licensed program enhancement to RPG that permits an ILE RPG program to access new devices and resources that are not directly supported by RPG. OAR enables the ILE RPG programs to interact with Web browsers, mobile devices, services, cloud resources, XML files, or spreadsheets.
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Citigroup Breach Triggers Congressional Response
The data breach at Citigroup in May – a breach which reportedly exposed an estimated 200,000 customer accounts – has motivated members of the U.S. Congress to re-introduce legislation to penalize the very organizations that have been victimized by hackers. What are the next steps your company should take?
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Top 10 Healthcare Data Breaches in 2010
A study — based on the actual data breach experiences of 51 U.S. companies from 15 different industry sectors — revealed that data breaches grew more costly for the fifth year in a row. They jumped from $204 per compromised record in 2009 to $214 in 2010.
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Managed File Transfer Streamlines HIPAA/HITECH Complexity
Managed File Transfer (MFT) systems are great for policy enforcement, access authentication, risk reduction, and more. But for HIPAA and HITECH requirements, MFT shines as a work-flow automation tool.
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Encrypting Files with OpenPGP
When our users send a file over the Internet there are really just a few things that seem important to them at the time.
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Who is Protecting Your Health Care Records?
How important is a patient’s privacy? If your organization is a health care facility, the instinctive answer that comes to mind is “Very important!” After all, a patient’s privacy is the basis upon which the doctor/patient relationship is based.
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Dealing with the HITECH Requirements of HIPAA
Subtitle D of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, extended the complete Privacy and Security Provisions of HIPAA to business associates of covered entities. This includes the extension of newly updated civil and criminal penalties to business associates. On November 30, 2009, the regulations associated with the new enhancements to HIPAA enforcement took effect. What’s it mean?
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Was FTP Behind the Wikileaks Breach?
Many security professionals are wondering if FTP was the software mechanism used.
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Are You Confident Your FTP Credentials Are Secure?
A security researcher named Chris Larson happened onto a curious website last September that had been serving some malicious-looking exe files. While poking around, he wrote in his blog, “I came across an ‘unlocked door’ on the malicious Web site and took a look inside.” Treading like an adventurer in Alice’s Wonderland, Larson discovered that this little doorway opened into a world of potential hurt for companies around the world.
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FTP Server Security Flaw Discovered/
We know that FTP has security issues that are based upon its aging design. But a new flaw, discovered by Maksymilian Arciemowicz, is creating new concerns. This new flaw is calling into question the underlying code-base implemented by literally thousands of FTP server applications.
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PCI-DSS 2.0
According to a survey of 155 Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) conducted by the Ponemon Institute, 60 percent of retailers lack the budgets to be fully compliant with the PCI DSS standards. As an example, the annual audit cost for a major retailer can be as high as $225,000.
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Cyber Threats: Beyond Entertainment Value!
On June 8th, 2010 the National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast a debate by the public charity Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) entitled “The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated.” The show’s format is based on the traditional Oxford-style debate, with one side proposing and the other side opposing a sharply-framed motion.
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Who Insures the Insurer?
Do insurance companies maintain Data Security Breach Insurance? On June 23, 2010 more than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the company’s website. It’s one more tumble in a cascade of security breaches that can have terrible consequences for the customers and clients of such a large insurance company.
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Are Your Users Exposing Your Company to Risks Using Standard FTP File Transfers?
Every day, millions of files are exchanged all over the world by corporations, government entities, and other organizations.
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Virtualization and High-Availability Strategic Planning
Thomas M. Stockwell maps out the processes of planning for High Availability with the virtualization capabilities of IBM's latest server offerings.
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New Computing Model With Virtualization
The current generations of virtual server products are achieving new efficiencies, simplifying complexity, reducing energy consumption and adding resiliency to expanding computing infrastructures. This means more than adding faster processors, larger
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A Year in the Life of Vision Solutions
Dec, 2007, MC Press Online.
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Can MySQL Become YourSQL?
June 2007 MC Press
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Anatomy of an Open-Source Project
April 2007 MC Press
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For more than 20 years, Thomas M. Stockwell has been writing and reporting on IT as a professional author, editor, analyst, and IT industry commentator.