Stephen Cobb

What are the immediate practical implications of the Snowden-prompted revelation that the NSA has broken or circumvented a lot of commercially available encryption? For a start, you should not stop using encryption, but you may want to review how you use it moving forward, Stephen Cobb explains.

An infographic of recent healthcare IT security statistics paints a striking picture of much security work yet to be done, even as new medical privacy regulations go into effect.

Is your company ready for September 23, 2013, the deadline for compliance with HIPAA 2.0? The revised omnibus privacy and security regulations incorporating HITECH expose a lot more companies to possible fines.

What needs to happen before the President of the United States can stand before the American people and assure them that a comprehensive and good faith effort has been made to stop cyber attacks disrupting the delivery of essential goods and services? The NIST workshops are seeking answers to that question.

In the ongoing effort to protect cyber aspects of America's critical infrastructure, the third NIST Cybersecurity Framework workshop is being hosted July 10-12, 2013 by the University of California, San Diego, and the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Summer is here and school is out, what better time to take a look at improving the cyber protection on all of your household's many digital devices?

Security of data in healthcare IT systems is critical to patient care and patient trust, yet on average data on 17,000 patients is exposed every day in America due to security breaches. Why is this and what does it portend for initiatives like telemedicine?

Basic advice on cyber security survival for businesses is presented as a 6-step roadmap, along with links to free resources that can be useful in your efforts to defend your business.