Organizations have an ethical (and sometimes legal) obligation to their clients to protect sensitive information. Disposing of computer hard drives that haven’t been properly wiped can expose your organization, as well as your customers or patients, to devastating breaches of security or privacy. Simply erasing or reformatting hard drives doesn’t guarantee that the (more…)
You would think that in today’s world of litigation and fines a medical practice would be crazy to still be storing personal medical information in a public storage facility – but it still happens, and we just saw it again the other day. Medical records contain information about individuals that is protected by laws, most relevant, HIPAA. Improperly storing your customers information, whether it is financial information (more…)
