May 6, 2024 - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – At RSAC 2024, there is no shortage of experts who have experienced data breaches and emerged with lessons learned. At a Monday morning session, experts from Equifax, Google Cloud, and law firm Paul, Weiss discussed best practices for responding to data breaches based on their firsthand experiences. The best practices...

May 2, 2024 - UPDATE 5/2/2024 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the Change Healthcare cyberattack. 5/2/2024 - UHG CEO Andrew Witty estimated that the data breach resulting from the Change Healthcare cyberattack will impact approximately one-third of Americans, though the investigaiton remains underway.  Witty testified...

May 1, 2024 - The Rubrik Zero Labs research unit found that the average healthcare organization possesses upwards of 42 million sensitive data records, 50% more than the global average of 28 million. Given this figure, Rubrik deduced that ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations can have significant negative impacts on operations and data security and...

April 30, 2024 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized updates to its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) with the goal of clarifying the rule’s applicability to health apps and other technologies that fall outside HIPAA’s purview. The FTC issued the HBNR more than a decade ago, when health apps were not as embedded into the US healthcare...