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Tips

Save Time To Save Lives. Security Tools for Healthcare in the Time of Crisis

Doctors and nurses are leading the fight for human lives amidst the coronavirus outbreak. Once again, they rise to the challenge, providing help for those in need, and giving hope to others. What they need right now is time. Time to treat current patients and time to get ready for the new ones.

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Regulations

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation & NYDFS Compliance

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation is a set of regulations from the New York Department of Financial Services. This legislation places cybersecurity requirements on all financial institutions that operate in New York. It stipulates that all DFS-regulated companies should have cybersecurity plans, policies, and maintain detailed reporting systems for cybersecurity events.

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Passwords

Why a Separate Wearable Beats Your Smartphone for MFA

In the United States, about 19% of the adult population has experienced identity theft. Over 60 million Americans have had their online identity exposed by hacks of the customer databases of their service providers or government agencies. The situation is similar in Europe and other countries.

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Tips

Cybersecurity Best Practices for Employees

Staff members can fall victim to many different security threats, companies can never be secure enough when it comes to safeguarding their sensitive information. Continue reading to find out the best practices for employees and how to implement them to improve employee cybersecurity awareness going into 2020. 

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Passwordless

What is Zero Trust Security? Successful Zero Trust Implementation

Zero Trust architecture has experienced a meteoric rise over the past couple of years, and it became a go-to choice for many organizations looking for a reliable security system. Despite popularity among big and small companies, Zero Trust model remains relatively unknown among average Internet users. 

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Regulations

What is CCPA and How to Become Compliant?

The California Consumer Privacy Act, also known as CCPA, took effect on January 1, 2020. Its main goal is to secure personal information of individuals by obliging businesses to collect their consent before gathering or processing any sensitive or personal data. According to the broad consensus, the California Consumer Privacy Act changed the way businesses think about user data.

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Regulations

What is HIPAA Compliance? HIPAA Requirements

HIPAA is a legal act that establishes the rules for patient information protection. It makes it possible for healthcare patients to control their sensitive information and rely on organizations, which are required to implement standardized patient privacy and security structures. 

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Regulations

California Consumer Privacy Act. What You Need to Know?

The California Consumer Privacy Act took effect on January 1st, 2020. This made California the first state to introduce a clear-cut and precisely defined privacy law. Intended to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for the residents of the state of California, the CCPA takes a broad view of what constitutes private data.

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Threats

What is Phishing? Phishing Types and Tips for Prevention

Phishing means deceitful use of electronic communication services to defraud online users. Phishing emails are created with one sinister purpose in mind – to deceive the user and get a hold of his sensitive and valuable information such as credit card data, social security number, passwords, and other private details. 

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Passwords

What is Multi-factor Authentication? Advantages & Limitations

In the world where people seem to remember only passwords like «qwerty», «Abc123!» and «123456789», there should be a way to protect their accounts. Luckily, there is an MFA. Available in many forms, it allows making even the worst of passwords more secure.

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