Passwords Suck: Learn About and Use Multi-Factor Authentication
Passwords suck. Passwords suck. They are long, hard to remember (even if you have easier-to-remember phrases), moreso when new, and…
Is Big Data at Risk of Unleashing Big Brother?
Privacy is always a flash point. With the advent of big data, privacy is only going to be even more…
Personal Information Online: How Much is Too Much?
Charlie Sheen's Infamous Tweet Have you ever posted something on Facebook or Twitter and felt immediate regret? Scrambling to delete…
Change Impacting Privacy
I have finally gotten around to reading ‘Privacy in Context‘ – Helen’s Nissenbaum‘s excellent treatise on privacy. Privacy, invasion of…
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Need for a Business Associate Agreement
You’re a covered entity (your company processes, stores or transfers any type of patient information), and you’re outsourcing your HIPAA…
A Cautious Look at Big Data
Big data can provide companies with powerful insights about everything from customer behaviors and preferences to new product opportunities. As…
Big Data: Good or Evil?
An article in the New York Times stokes fears of Big Data: Social scientists are trying to mine the vast…
Nine Components of a HIPAA Risk Analysis
The Department of Health and Human Services requires organizations to conduct a risk analysis as the first step toward implementing…
Enhancing Collective Defense with Taxonomies for Operational Cyber Defense
Cyberspace is our interconnected information technology. And since everything either is or is becoming connected, one of the defining characteristics…
Attention vs. Privacy
A major feature of the recently released Google+ is Circles, which allows you to “share relevant content with the right…
