In today’s world of interlocked companies and IT service providers, it’s standard practice for a company to ask its tech suppliers to fill out detailed questionnaires about their security practices.

Cybersecurity risk assessments can aid agencies as they search for IT security vulnerabilities in a world of rapidly evolving threats. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

[Excerpted from "How to Conduct an Effective IT Security Risk Assessment," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Risk Management Tech Center.] Many security and compliance projects begin ...

Too many healthcare providers fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required under HIPAA as well as the HITECH Act, says security consultant Kate Borten, president of The ...

In 2017, the Security Leadership Research Institute (the Security Executive Council’s research arm) asked security practitioners to choose from a list of which risk-related activities their security ...

Although this IT risk assessment template deals with risk assessment for disaster recovery requirements, it can be customized for other IT requirements. Head this way ...

One-quarter of healthcare organizations do not conduct security risk assessments, according to the 2011 HIMSS Security Survey (pdf). The assessment is a requirement for both HIPAA and the electronic ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required ...

The investment in and function of governance, risk and compliance are the underpinning of zero harm in a healthcare ...

Health care providers and others who must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) have specific requirements under the Security Rule to HIPAA when it ...

Regardless of their political beliefs, Americans want to prevent another terrorist attack from occur­ring in the United States. In the face of increasingly diffuse threats and adversaries ...