Posts by Stephen Treglia :

Europe seems poised to finalize the terms of the EU General Data Protection Regulation by the end of the year. The EU GDPR is set to drastically chance data protection law, including an increase in penalties for a breach up to 2% of a corporation’s annual global turnover. While these new laws will have a large impact on European businesses and IT professionals, the GDPR will also have...

There’s no question that healthcare data breaches are reaching an all-time high. With health records fetching as much as 10 times the value of credit card data on the black market, cybercriminals are targeting healthcare organizations now more than ever. 2015 is poised to become the “year of the hack” in healthcare, with cybercriminals exploiting any vulnerability they can find, be it an unmatched system or an insecure endpoint.

In the April 2015 edition of Advance Healthcare Network’s Executive Insight magazine, I contributed an article on “Healthcare Data Casualties,” available on page 38 or online in the digital edition of the magazine. In the article, I discuss why healthcare breaches are on the rise and the key requirements to ensuring and proving endpoint IT compliance.

Legal practitioners these days are no longer tied to desks, but instead are on the move, conducting business, taking care of clients, and turning 30-minutes commutes into 30-minutes strategy sessions. While there is no doubt that mobility – both the devices and the power “suite” of apps – helps lawyers take care of business, it’s not without its risks. With such portable endpoints, it’s no surprise that these devices...

I recently wrote an article for InsuranceTech on the complexity of the regulator environment that affects insurance companies and how this impacts data security planning, particularly when it comes to data breach response and mitigation. In Underwriting Insurance Data Security, I talk about the pressure on CIOs to protect sensitive data from loss or theft, particularly given many of the high profile data breaches in healthcare insurance. An increase in...