Rikin Shah

Healthcare compliance has been the subject of much debate for as long as health and human services have existed in the United States and across the globe. While we could sit here and go over the myriad intricacies of laws in the healthcare industry, it would be wiser (and more time efficient) to discuss the impact patient data can have on your organization.

With the risk landscape changing every single day due to a number of different reasons like constantly evolving cyber-attacks to changing regulatory requirements, it can be hard enough for organizations to thrive in the modern digital world.

A business continuity and disaster recovery plan will strike many business owners as a ‘nice to have’ rather than a must-have. Or you might think it’s essential for certain business functions (like IT) but less important in others (like PR, Comms, or HR teams.)
We’re here to break the news that you absolutely do need a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for your business. Not having one leaves your business vulnerable to threats — from cyber-attacks to natural disasters.

Business continuity, data protection, compliance, and disaster recovery are all tied to the ISO 27001 security framework, so not having a backup policy in place in your business continuity plan can spell disaster for your entire organization.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a million different threats to your business operations.

Uber’s security compromise earlier this month is an unfortunate result of concerns left over from an attack the company sustained in 2016 when a pair of hackers outside of Uber accessed user data that was stored on a 3rd-party server.

The UK National Cyber Security Strategy in 2022 describes the need for a national cyber strategy in the context of defending against growing worldwide cyberattacks. With a goal of firmly establishing the UK as a democratic and responsible cyber power, able to promote its interests as a sovereign nation in a world fundamentally shaped by technology, the nation is pushing the chips forward on whatever it takes to achieve true cyber resilience.
Cybersecurity challenges
In the face of the growing...

Case study that goes into how one pension planner utilized AppDynamics to completely transform business operations from the ground up.

How enabling private cloud functionality can allow healthcare providers to take an active part in shaping the industry’s ever-evolving digital transformation.

A comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to surviving and thriving in the modern
business environment where any unforeseen downtime has major consequences for the overall
customer experience. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to define exactly what their DR
plan should include or how best to implement it.
This eBook will help you better understand why a bulletproof DR plan is vital to your business’ success and the various components and considerations to account for ...

We know…you’ve probably searched “human capital management systems” a million times at this point. And there’s no shame in that as a quality HCM investment can save massive amounts of time and money as you continue to transform your organization to keep up with the rapid pace of business today.
The key to a truly transformative investment, however, is choosing an integrated HCM system. But how do you even define what an “integrated HCM system” is, to begin with? How do they work and how are t...

Under Attack:
Healthcare was the most vulnerable industry to sensitive data breaches across all major attack vectors in 2021:#1 for ransomware attacks #1 for third-party/supply chain attacks #1 for human and system insider errors As the number one sector for the most data breaches for the third year in a row, the healthcare industry reported more than 330 incidents or 18% of 2021’s total data compromises according While the number of industry-related data breaches increased slightly (8%) last...

services in 2021Under Attack:
The financial services industry incurred 15% of 2021’s record number of data breaches, with a total of 279 incidents reported by U.S.-based organizations, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2021 Annual Data Breach Report. Last year saw a 200% increase in the number of data breaches (from 138 incidents in 2020 to 279 incidents in 2021) while the number of individuals impacted by data breaches increased six-fold (from 2.7 million in 2020 to 19.7 mill...

The impact of sensitive education in 2021
The education sector was the fifth largest victim of major data breaches during 2021. According constituents. Last year, the educational sector incurred a three-fold increase in the number Three-quarters (76%) of all education data breaches included the theft or exposure of sensitive data, impacting students, parents, alumni, and faculty members and costing institutions millions of dollars in damages. The average total cost of a data breach in the edu...