In this post we are going to talk about Security 101 for Covered Entities. We start a series of posts with this post. This series of posts is called the HIPAA Series. The series will contain seven post: Security 101 for Covered Entities Security Standards: Administrative Safeguards Security Standards: Physical Safeguards Security Standards: technical Safeguards [...]
HIPAA law was created to ensure that patient’s sensitive information is protected. Protected health information (PHI) must be secured in the form of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. It's better that before continuing to read this post, first read our previous post about HIPAA. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was originally passed by [...]
In this post, we talked about the types of hackers. One of them is ethical hacker. We discuss about the five steps of ethical hacking now. Of course, not necessarily a hacker has to follow these 5 steps in a sequential manner: Note: Hacking is illegal. The only purpose of hacking is to secure [...]
Hacking refers to activities that seek to compromise digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and even entire networks. In other words, hacking is identifying weakness in computer systems or networks to exploit its weaknesses to gain access. Businesses need to protect themselves against such attacks. Hacking is typically technical but hackers can also use [...]
Mobile devices come with their own set of problems, such as unauthorized data access and data leakage, which highlights the importance of managing these devices. Mobile device management (MDM) is a software application for the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops. MDM includes storing essential information about mobile devices, deciding [...]
A honeypot is a trap that an IT security professionals lays for a malicious hacker. A honeypot is a decoy computer system for trapping hackers or tracking unconventional or new hacking methods. It's a sacrificial computer system that’s intended to attract cyberattacks, like a decoy. The goal is to deceive and attract a hacker who [...]
It is essential for all organizations to protect their networks. With hackers increasing and becoming smarter day by day, the need to utilize network security tool becomes more and more impotent. Network security is any activity designed to protect the usability and integrity of network and data. In fact, network security is a term used [...]
A brute force attack (exhaustive search) is a cryptographic hack that relies on guessing possible combinations of a targeted password until the correct password is discovered. This attack uses trial-and-error to guess login info, encryption keys, or find a hidden web page. Brute force attacks don’t employ an intellectual strategy. These attacks simply try using [...]
All organizations are need to keep their apps and devices secure. These apps/ devices must be compliant with the security baselines defined by the organization. A security configuration checklist (lockdown or hardening guide or benchmark) is form a series of instructions for configuring a product to a particular security baseline. IT security checklists are helpful to [...]