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Identifying Red Flags, Warning Signs and Indicators – By Katie Weaver, Awareity Have you noticed recently how the media, safety experts and government leaders are focusing on the failure of organizations to connect-the-dots and the failure to identify red flags prior to emergency and crisis situations occurring? Click here to read the rest of the article..... AntiMistake Software – Preventing Human Error and Lack of Awareness – By Rick Shaw, President/CEO Awareity Successful organizations realize antivirus software must be installed on all PCs. Antivirus software works well if updates are automatic and ongoing (as new risks and threats are identified) to prevent expensive damages to PCs, information and reputations. Click here to read the rest of the article..... | ||||
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As organizational demand for user access has risen dramatically, the challenge of managing access change has increased exponentially due to the fragmentation of information systems and resources. From a business perspective, users require access to what they want, where they want it, when they want it such that business operations are not slowed or blocked altogether. From an IT perspective, operations and security personnel are challenged to field and fulfill requests in a secure and compliant fashion. Achieving these goals in a highly distributed and fragmented environment, and mapping that access to underlying information resources, is a persistent challenge. As a result, IT security and operations can become a bottleneck to the completion of the access fulfillment process that businesses cannot afford. Click here to read the rest of the Whitepaper..... A Methodology for Implementing Continuous Roles Based Access Governance – Aveksa The management of user access has long been an extraordinarily complex challenge for organizations. Central to this challenge is the concept of creating defined user roles. Used correctly, roles provide a means of simplification, and allow organizations to tailor enterprise access to the needs of the business. The result, in a perfect world, is greater IT operational efficiency, business agility and improved security through a set of preventative controls. Click here to read the rest of the Whitepaper..... A Pragmatic Approach to Access Governance and FERC/NERC Compliance – Aveksa With the passage and recent audit deadlines of FERC and NERC guidelines, regulatory compliance has become a major focus for energy and utilities corporations. Click here to read the rest of the Whitepaper..... User Access-related Risk Management: Compliance Is Not Enough – Aveksa Large organizations face an ever-growing body of regulations. At the same time, nearly every facet of their operations are now dependent on or supported by automated systems. As a result, risks related to unauthorized or inappropriate access can appear anywhere within an organization at any time and spread rapidly through the business. All it takes is a single person with the wrong access. Such events range from relatively minor policy and compliance violations to major operational failures with substantial financial, legal, and reputational consequences. Click here to read the rest of the Whitepaper..... THE HITECH ACT – What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know about Access Compliance – Aveksa The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) evolves HIPAA from a reactive compliance requirement to a broader, more preventative approach. HITECH This act will impose more stringent regulatory and security requirements to the privacy rules of HIPAA, such as extending the covered entities to include business associates and related third party vendors in the healthcare industry, increased audit requirements, more proactive measures to protect personal healthcare information (PHI), increased civil penalties for a compliance violation of HIPAA, and stricter notification requirements of a security breaches of protected. Additionally, the HITECH Act authorizes state attorney generals to bring civil actions on behalf of state residents adversely affected or threatened by HIPAA violations of HIPAA. Click here to read the rest of the article..... | ||||
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