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Increased Cyberattacks on Healthcare Institutions Shows the Need for Greater Governance

  Understanding the surge in healthcare data cyberattacks, what's driving them, and what can be about it 2020 was particularly ruthless in terms of healthcare hacking attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal . The data derived from the US Department of Health and Human Services showed that more than 1 million people were affected by data breaches at healthcare organizations nearly every month in 2020. These alarming findings show how hackers targeted healthcare institutions during the pandemic. But considering how Covid-19 overburdened healthcare organizations' limited resources, many data breaches may as well have gone undetected. Since many hospitals were unprepared for Covid-19 surges, they were forced to reallocate resources from administrative tasks to patient care. As a result of the critical transition, essential data protection procedures went by the wayside, exacerbating the vulnerabilities that hackers have worked tirelessly to exploit for years. Many health o...

Identify, Review and Remediate PII with Compliance

  Understanding the importance of identifying, reviewing, and remediating PII and the practices best for it It is reassuring that certain things remain the same year after year in a world of uncertainty and change, such as customer personally identifiable information (PII) – the most commonly exposed category of data with the highest cost per record. However, this does not have to be the case, as the report also shows that organizations using technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and automated orchestration were the most successful in reducing data breach expenses. Some steps in doing so are to understand your industry-specific regulations, build policies, identify, de-duplicate, and defensibly delete or remediate the consumer PII from the enterprise database. Know the Compliance Regulations Due to the growing data privacy concerns, governments and regulatory bodies have enacted several industry-specific compliance regulations to regulate how you acquire, man...

Zl Technologies

  ZL Tech delivers multiple opportunities to protect the data and security level for real-time business. ZL Technologies leverages unified solutions that enable organizations to solve challenges. ZL develops and distributes enterprise-level software related to SharePoint Archive , Microsoft Teams archiving , Microsoft Office 365 email archiving , Enterprise data migration , and People Analytics . 

The Role of Data Visualization and Analytics in Marketing

  Exploring the crucial role of data visualization and the benefits it brings in the field of marketing and how to achieve it  Data accessibility may be both a benefit and a pain. While today's marketers have a wealth of data to back up their strategy and objectives, they also must filter through a sea of data to find what they need to measure success and what can help them construct a case for their work's worth. When people get so overwhelmed by data that they cannot make conclusions, this can swiftly progress to analysis paralysis. What Is the Importance of Data Visualization? Data visualization is critical in any sector that can benefit from data collection and business analytics , but it is especially vital in digital marketing to ensure that your marketing dollars are well spent. The gathering of data is only one part of the process. What use are datasets if nothing is done with them? It's the equivalent of creating a great digital strategy and then leaving it on a sh...

Data Control Procedures for Data Privacy Compliance

  Despite occasional relaxations on the stay-at-home orders, the world has transitioned to almost everything online due to the pandemic resulting in constant massive growth in the volume of data transfer, processing, storage, and security issues. This demands a data control and protection mechanism to guarantee that data is safeguarded wherever employees are, from a central data center in the office to laptops at home, to minimize leaks and data loss. This is because every organization is responsible for safeguarding their employee and consumers' sensitive information and because regulations like the GDPR rightly demands so. As a result, organizations are turning to methods like AI solutions, multifactor authentication, disaster recovery plans, and so on for controlling and securing their data.  AI-assisted privacy protection Data privacy has become increasingly challenging with the rise in data processing and transfers inside and outside companies. As a result, data leaks a...

Microsoft Teams Archive – An Essential Approach to Telehealth Data Management

  Analyzing Microsoft Teams Archive's expanding position as the healthcare sector shifts to telehealth in the face of rising cyberattacks There does not seem to be a foreseeable conclusion to the pandemic, with new variants surfacing from time to time, a recurrent rise in cases, and inadequate data on the latest coronavirus strains. The healthcare business, which was one of the most impacted, was put under a lot of stress from the start and is still struggling to cope. Despite that, like other industries, the healthcare sector has quickly evolved toward virtual parts of healthcare, i.e., telehealth. The use of  Microsoft Teams  in the industry was one such innovation, allowing physicians, patients, and other stakeholders to communicate and work in the new normal. With its office-grade ability to schedule and conduct doctor-patient virtual appointments, secure mode of storing and sharing patient records, protecting PHI in compliance with HIPAA, and enhancing team collabora...

Keep an Eye on GDPR This Year as It Becomes More Stringent

  Discussing the GDPR regulatory agencies' fines from the previous year and the actions you can take this year to improve your GDPR game $1.25 billion – that's the amount imposed by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as fines on companies in 2021 for violating the EU citizens' and companies' privacy and security. The penalties increased from roughly $180 million a year earlier , even though the number of data breaches reported to regulators decreased by 8% to 356 each day on average. However, as Arlen Specter pointed out, "effective security measures do not come cheap." This is why, until November of last year, 36% of firms had no "clear contingency plan in place to mount a response" to a cyberattack, whereas 66% of small businesses are still most concerned about compromising client data. Regardless, while most standards are particularly relevant to managed service providers (MSPs) and software vendors since they have access to ...