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Learning Python for Healthcare – Is Python HIPAA Compliant?

The Crazy Programmer

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) refers to a list of regulatory standards that dictate legal use and disclosure of sensitive health information. And this involves all applications, including the private ones and those connected to a public network like web applications, mobile apps, or CRM.

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Datto BCDR: An Opportunity for MSPs

Kaseya

Many businesses look at data protection as an operating expense akin to an insurance policy. Restoring 2TB of data to a server from a local backup using traditional backup software over a typical network connection could take 10 hours or more. It is kept up-to-date over time with automated, incremental backups.

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Why Ransoms Are Soaring

Kaseya

A British insurer stated that nearly half of their cyber insurance claims for the first half of 2020 were ransomware related. Did they have backup or not? If you know your victim is rich, has no backups and is sensitive to disruption, then your ransom demand would be a whole lot bigger. Was the victim rich or poor?

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Kaseya VSA and Datto BCDR: Your First and Last Line of Defense in Cybersecurity

Kaseya

Patching is a critical step in maintaining the security of systems and networks. Avoiding non-compliance penalties: Another key reason to apply patches is to help maintain regulatory or insurance compliance. Several compliance standards and most IT insurance policies require regularly updating software. 24/7 monitoring.

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An Enterprise MUST HAVE: Cyber Resilience

Infinidat

The cyber “attack plane” is enormous, it is not just securing our network connections, but also extends to the people at their desks or at the edges of the company networks who can willingly or not, be the source of IT turmoil. Many times they want a ransom paid, and many companies pay it, and now many are insured for it.

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Multi-Extortion Techniques: Data Theft and Harassment on the Rise

Palo Alto Networks

This means that the traditional advice of maintaining backups is no longer sufficient. Organizations have improved their ability to create and recover from backups, especially given redundancy capabilities in the cloud. In general, the cyber insurance industry will only insure an organization that shows evidence of data backups.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

But looking at less critical network infrastructure or compute where there is adequate redundancy, a leader can opt for a more conservative support plan that costs less.” Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt. Commonly automated tasks include system monitoring, patch management, and backups.