The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996 and includes provisions that require that an individual’s personal health information remain secure and confidential. The 1996 law was reinforced by the passage of the HITECH … Read More
Originally posted in 2012 – updated in 2020
Encryption means “hidden.” Specifically, encryption is used to keep confidential information private by scrambling all of the ones and zeros to make them appear like gibberish unless you have the key used … Read More
When we wrote a response to this question in 2011 on the best way to work remotely, iPads and tablets were the rage. The iPad was introduced in 2010, and we had clients frequently using tablets and smartphones for … Read More
People make mistakes and it seems we do not learn our lessons. The stakes are high when securing data. Once you’ve “let the genie out of the bottle,” and experienced a data breach, there’s no undoing it. Once this has … Read More
Microsoft Office’s Word is undoubtedly one of the most popular word processing software in the world, perhaps even the most popular. Still, there are many people who use Word on a regular basis without putting the majority of its features … Read More