Cybersecurity Archives

Are you Safe?

by Ed Jones, PMP, CHSP | Aug 17, 2018 | Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Protect Yourself

Safety. Such an important word with so many different connotations. We ask safety questions constantly. Is my family safe? Will my house be safe? Is this a safe neighborhood? Are our schools safe? Many technologies are designed to specifically pacify our desire to...

NIST Makes Passwords a Little Easier

by Mike Moran | Apr 12, 2018 | Cybersecurity

After much research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has determined that we have been doing passwords all wrong! Traditionally, best practice for password use has been a minimum of 6 characters composed of a combination of letters, numbers...

Cyber Hygiene: Are your systems hardened?

by Robert Felps | Feb 8, 2018 | Cybersecurity

Third Rock performs Risk Assessments (Security Risk Analysis) for very small firms to large organizations in healthcare, technical, financial, insurance, oil and gas, and other industries. We know the focus of the assessment needs to be security; therefore, we run an...

Cloud or Not-to-Cloud; The Allscripts Breach

by Ed Jones, PMP, CHSP | Feb 6, 2018 | Cybersecurity

Allscripts’ Electronic Health Records service was the first major cloud-based EHR to be significantly disrupted by a ransomware attack. Close to 1,500 practices were affected by the EHR outage for about a week; essentially shutting down those practices. Allscripts...

Internet of Medical Things: Real Security Threat or Hype?

by Julie Rennecker, PhD, BSN | Jan 19, 2018 | Compliance & Security, Cybersecurity, Focus on Technology, Technology

For decades, healthcare medical devices functioned as freestanding tools. Glucometers, lasers, infusion pumps, pressure monitors, neonatal incubators, heart monitors – each serving its unique function independently of the others. With the widespread implementation of...

Practical Steps to Protect Your Data!

by Ed Jones, PMP, CHSP | Jan 18, 2018 | Cybersecurity

Being in the business of helping our customers protect their data, my email inbox is filled with news of cyber breaches and the latest, state of the art, machine learning artificial intelligence cybersecurity systems! I think there is an “arms race” between the...

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