About Paul Sponcia

Move Beyond HIPAA 101 and More OCR Fines on the Way

Providers especially, and the industry as a whole, continue to struggle with HIPAA compliance. Much of it continues to be a box checking mentality that physicians and their administrators or CEO's [...]

October 24th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, HIPAA, Compliance

How vulnerable is the Internet, and how vulnerable are we?

There was a massive internet outage on Friday. Shutting down access to many popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, and more than 1200 domains across the internet. The attack was, in part, [...]

October 24th, 2016 |Categories: DDoS, Krebs, Twitter, DynDNS, Security, Amazon, IoT

Hacking is Easy

A security incident is inevitable for two reasons:

October 18th, 2016 |Categories: Social Engineering, Cybercrime, Phishing, Security, ITSecurity

Yes, The HIPAA Technical Safeguards Can Work To Prevent Healthcare Data Breaches

As hacking and cyberattacks continue to occur and lead to healthcare data breaches, technical safeguards are become increasingly important for healthcare organizations.

October 10th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, Security, HIPAA, Compliance, HHS

Windows 10 Moving to Paid Subscription Model

Pretty soon to access to critical features, especially for customers with compliance needs, you will have to start paying roughly $7/mo. The following is a short and informative article on what is [...]

October 7th, 2016 |Categories: Windows10, Microsoft, Compliance, IT Budgeting

Healthcare Providers Be Prepared, More Oversight is Coming

The Department of Health and Human Services needs to improve its security and privacy guidance and oversight program, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

October 7th, 2016 |Categories: OCR, Healthcare, NIST, GAO, Security, HIPAA, Compliance, HHS

Ransomware spreads like a virus in the cloud

The focus on exploitation never stops, and the hackers are always one step ahead. Today we were notified in an artcile from the folks at www.knowbe4.com of an obscure 2-year old ransomware strain [...]

October 5th, 2016 |Categories: virlock, Technology, netskope, Ransomware, Security, knowbe4.com

Employee Awareness is Ransomware's Greatest Protection

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a great opportunity to strengthen your human firewall in the war against this ransomware epidemic. We love that term, "Human Firewall" - that is [...]

Know Yourself to Lead Yourself Podcast Up

We have begun a podcast series aptly named, "The Field Journal, Leadership Stores from The Field." The field journal will be a series of podcasts on leadership with area business, government, [...]

October 3rd, 2016 |Categories: Podcast, Uncategorized, Leadership, GIANT

500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts Are A Phishing Paradise. Warn Your Users!

That's right, 500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts. This is an old hack, but Yahoo is now providing more information about the hack. Thanks to our friends at knowbe4.com for alerting us about this [...]

September 23rd, 2016 |Categories: Yahoo, OCR, knowbe4.come, Healthcare, Security, HIPAA, ITSecurity, Hacking, Compliance, HHS