In 1996, the U.S. Congress approved the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA. The law is designed to protect patient privacy rights by outlining how hospitals, medical providers, and other healthcare organizations must control the disclosure of patients’ medical records.
Running a small business is not easy. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur learning the ropes of a new enterprise, or a small business coping with the strains of success.
The IRS is reporting that this year the phishing pond of choice is the executive suite.
W-2 email phishing scam – when your CEO is not your CEO
The IRS is reporting that this year the phishing pond of choice is the executive suite.
Everything has a shelf life. We are all used to it. When we go food shopping, the first thing we look at when we pick up a carton of milk is the expiration date.
Despite the growing use of instant messaging and other collaboration tools, email continues to be the de facto standard for business communication. In fact, email sees greater use than the phone and even personal meetings in many organizations.
The cloud is not merely a widely accepted computing model — it’s the basis for nearly every transformative technology on the horizon. The cloud will be a key enabler for looming trends such as the Internet of Things, quantum computing, serverless architectures, machine learning and more.
Although ransomware has reached epidemic proportions, few small businesses have any sort of plan for how to deal with such attacks. In fact, most think they are too small to even be a target for ransomware.
Small businesses may think they won’t become victims of a cyberattack, but odds are they will. In fact, 43 percent of cyberattacks specifically targeted small businesses in 2015, up from just 18 percent in 2011.
