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Come visit with RISC at HIMSS15 in Chicago!

Booth 8175 – Cybersecurity Command Center, a HIMSS Knowledge Center

RISC and Virtual Auditor will be presenting at 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm CT on Tuesday, April 14th on Information Security Compliance Monitoring & Documentation

Location 8175 – Level 3 – Hall B1

Title: Effective Information Security in Healthcare

Description: RISC Management & Consulting

Why Do Healthcare Data Breaches Keep Happening? Learn the necessary foundational elements for an effective data privacy and information security program from industry expert Chris Heuman. RISC will demonstrate the key elements lacking from many security programs, and real world solutions to fill the gaps. Learn the most often used phrase after an incident or Data Breach has occurred and what you can do about it!

Remember to add Session ID: CS13 to your personal HIMSS15 calendar!

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Feel free to stop at our booth and chat about compliance challenges you may be experiencing. RISC and Virtual Auditor can help you determine the most effective and efficient solution for your organization.

Join the GCC HIMSS Chapter at HIMSS15

Chicago welcomes the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition, April 12-16, 2015, at McCormick Place. The GCC HIMSS Chapter will be hosting the event this year. There’s an expected attendance of over 38,000 healthcare industry professionals ready to discuss health IT issues and view innovative solutions designed to transform healthcare. There are more than 300 education programs, preconference symposiums, workshops, 1200 exhibitors, networking, and special features such as the new Cybersecurity Command Center.

Thought leaders who will be acting as keynotes at the upcoming event, includes George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, leads a strong roster of speakers that also includes Alex Gourlay, President, Walgreens; Bruce D. Broussard, President & CEO, Humana; and Jeremy Gutsche, Founder of Trendhunter.com and Author of “Exploiting Chaos.”

To learn more about this year’s keynote speakers, visit www.himssconference.org.

HIMSS15 New Attendee Orientation | Webinar

April 1, 2015 — 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
Virtual Event

Session ID: CO1

Designed for those who are attending the HIMSS15 Annual Conference & Exhibition for the first time, HIMSS staff will provide orientation in detail across the many programs and offerings available to attendees while providing tips and techniques for getting the most out of your conference experience.

Learning Objectives:

Provide an overview of the HIMSS15 Annual Conference & Exhibition
Identify ways for first time attendees to maximize their Conference experience
Review opportunities among the three pillars of Education, Exhibition, and Networking

Or follow this link for a short video if you are a first time conference attendee: http://www.himssconference.org/first-time-attendees

Is Your Organization’s New Years Resolution to Be More Secure? If not, it should be!

However, that is too easy to say, and very hard to accomplish. The current threat environment is expanding far faster than the controls can hope to keep up with. A CISOs / CSOs job has never been harder; a trend that will continue this year and on into the future. If you don’t believe that call up organization’s like SONY, ebay (one of the least talked-about giant data breaches of the year), Target, JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, Community Health Systems, or the 321 other healthcare organizations reporting breaches affecting over 83 million individuals! In fact, healthcare breaches accounted for a whopping 42.3% of data breaches included in the just-published Identity Theft Resource Center 2014 Data Breach Report(1).

Threat vectors include all of the usual suspects that we have been talking about for years. But the massive proliferation of data, accelerating migration to remote and teleworkers, and huge increase in activity of nation-states, organized crime, and hacktivists all make the CISOs / CSOs job next to impossible. It’s not a matter of whether an incident will happen to a modern connected company, but when.

Data breach incident handling must be a part of your data privacy and information security program. Balancing the need for speed of response, especially prompted by state-level data breach rules, with accuracy and responsible forensic activities is a tough challenge. It becomes tougher when interested parties such as the CEO, who suddenly realized that information security is important, compliance, legal, IT Management, public relations, the cyber security insurance carrier and their forensic experts, and the press all want constant feedback and a complete understanding of what happened, who did it, and how much is this going to cost us? from the word, “Go!”

Hopefully all of these parties were interested when the CISO / CSO asked to run a data breach incident drill last year in order to test the capabilities, response time, and training of all relevant parties to respond to such an incident. From our experience performing risk assessments, they were not, and a drill has never been completed.

Don’t let a real incident be the first time you test your data privacy and information security incident response plan. Remember a successful program is built on statements of policy, supporting procedures, tools, checklists, logs, forms, and training. If a real incident is your first test, chances are you are looking at a poor result, and a poor result is more likely to lead to fines and firings.

Since an incident is a matter of When Not If, testing your incident response plan should not be seen as optional or subject to perpetual procrastination!

Lastly, remember that while Information Technology (I.T.) is the system owner and the primary source of information in the event of an incident or breach, the problem is a business issue, not an I.T. issue! Consider addressing requirements and response in your Business Continuity Plan (BCP). BCP procrastination is a topic for another article!

Happy New Year and we’ll secure you in 2015

The team at RISC Management

(1) http://www.idtheftcenter.org/images/breach/DataBreachReports_2014.pdf