Superintendents and other organizational leadership might wonder why county and city government, including agencies right here in Ohio, continue to be hit with ransomware. Weren’t these victims backing up their data? While most organizations have a backup, many...
Ohio Senate Bill 29 (SB29) went into effect last month on October 24, 2024. The focus of this bill is to improve student data privacy and school cybersecurity. The reason for the bill is to ensure that technology companies don’t misuse student data for students who...
Health IT vendors need to ensure security of their applications. Conventional wisdom for health IT vendors says to begin with the HIPAA Security Regulations, which specify 45 “Standards and Implementation Specifications”. While these requirements are...
Are you ready for 2022-2023 privacy and cybersecurity challenges, legal requirements and other updates? Here are key trends, regulatory enforcement, and other regulatory actions seen in 2022 and upcoming for 2023. Ransomware Ransomware continues to be the major...
Business associates in healthcare are seeing HIPAA breach fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. We’ve found that often the Business Associates of our clients in healthcare — physician’s practices, hospitals, insurance companies and even government...
