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by adgrooms on December 20, 2019

We are taking a break from posting progress on our data breach report to discuss a security feature, password lockout. It is employed to discourage password guessing attacks. An added layer of security is good to protect against bad actors, but are there drawbacks?

Most of us have probably experienced this feature by forgetting our password. If you are unfamiliar, a password lockout allows ...

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by adgrooms on December 19, 2019

Our recent posts have been sections of a data breach report that we are preparing. Its purpose is to gain insight into the trends and implications of reported incidents over the last ten years. This is our fifth installment with a look at the financial cost of healthcare data breaches.

Data breaches are costly in every business sector worldwide, but when reviewing the information [gathered ...

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by adgrooms on December 17, 2019

We are currently working on a healthcare data breach report, visualizing and analyzing reported breaches from the last ten years. In each blog post, we are releasing a piece of the report which will ultimately be available in one PDF file. The first two posts have focused on the number of individuals whose personal health information has been compromised. This post focuses on the different ...

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by adgrooms on December 14, 2019

We are currently working on a healthcare data breach report, visualizing and analyzing reported incidents from the last ten years. This is the second installment of our data breach report. We will keep releasing portions of the report as we make new discoveries.

Breaches come in all sizes, from a stolen laptop to a database break-in. We can see this in the report data. The scatter graph ...

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by adgrooms on December 13, 2019

Healthcare data is a prime target for hackers. Studies have shown that data breaches cost an average of $8 million for healthcare entities or about $400 per patient record. This emphasizes the need for good defenses and awareness to protect patient health information.

We are creating a report that analyzes at the past 10 years of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

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