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What is HITRUST Compliance?

What is HITRUST? HITRUST stands for the Health Information Trust Alliance. It was founded in 2007 and uses the “HITRUST approach” to help...
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Everything You Need to Know About How to Manage PHI

Fully understanding all the PHI you have, where it is stored, what processes touch it, and how it is used in your organization is critical to...

2023 Forensic Predictions

In 2023, we've got three predictions of cyber attacks that we think will be the most prevalent this year

Key PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement Updates

Learn about PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement Updates. You will need to be compliant with PCI DSS 4.0 by March 31, 2025. We recommend starting your...

How to Perform a PCI v4.0 SAQ A Self-Assessment

Performing an SAQ A version 4.0 Self-Assessment: Several new requirements, both existing in version 3.2.1 of the standard and some newly created...

SecurityMetrics' 2020 Guide to HIPAA Compliance Has Launched

2020 SecurityMetrics HIPAA Guide We create and publish our HIPAA Guide each year: to give healthcare IT and HIPAA leaders an up-to-date resource...

Top 10 Fatal Flaws in SMB Networks

We picked the top 10 most common flaws in SMB networks we see when setting up and managing firewalls for our customers

Who Owns Third-Party Security Risk Management

Third-party security risk management (TPRM) is the process of analyzing and addressing risks associated with outsourcing to third-party vendors or...

Should You Pay Ransomware: Answers From The...

Should you pay ransomware? No. Read on to learn more. The dominant cyber threat vector of 2020 has been the incredible surge in ransomware attacks.

Prevent IoT Ransomware: Best Practices from the...

Prevent IoT Ransomware: Threat Report and Best Practices from the SecurityMetrics SOC. The Internet of Things, also known as IoT, refers to...

PANscan 2020 Study Shows Unencrypted Credit Card Data Storage Up

PANscan searches business networks for unencrypted credit card numbers. Can businesses store credit card information? The short answer is, “yes.”...

How to Maintain Security When Employees Work Remotely

Maintain security when employees work remotely Helping employees work from home securely is important for all businesses, but with this post we...

Cybersecurity Attack Surfaces: How to Protect All Your Locations

In the cybersecurity world, an attack surface is any area of potential exposure to a cyber threat. A company’s attack surfaces depend on industry,...

Apache Struts Vulnerability: What You Should Do

You may have seen news reports of a serious security vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, which is a popular open-source framework developers use to...

How to Manage a Healthcare Data Breach

Data breaches can be devastating. Here are 5 steps that will help you manage a healthcare data breach.

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