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Don’t Click the Download Button!
I thought about naming this blog "Would the Real Download Link Expose Yourself." But, a few people said that wasn't a great title. Go figure! I'm sure you've visited a website to download something, maybe an image or install software or maybe some template to design...
National Health IT Week – FREE Assessment
It's National Health IT Week and Third Rock is promoting the value of Health IT and its role in protecting your patients, your practice and yourself with a FREE assessment. Just click below to take your free risk assessment to better...
It is Time for Us to Take Control of Our Data!
The EquiFax breach really has me angry. Mostly because I have no control over any aspect of this mess. EquiFax scoops up data on all of us without our consent. They seem unaccountable and untouchable. With a last name like mine, I’ve had...
Could this breach have been prevented? – A new series
One of the first lessons of process improvement is that preventing errors is much less expensive and time-consuming than remedying the damage after the fact. The same is true for an information breach. The time and cost for installing new software, training staff...
PHISHING ALERT – DocuSign – Don’t click!
Heads up, everyone – our team has gotten phishing emails like this one posing as messages from DocuSign. DON’T CLICK unless (a) the message is from someone you know and (b) is a message and document you were expecting. If you receive too many documents via DocuSign to...
The Equifax Data Breach – What You should do to Protect Yourself!
Stealing headlines from Hurricane Irma was the revelation that Equifax experienced a major data breach during the summer. Equifax is one of the “big three” credit monitoring services and therefore the data they collect on each of us is broad and deep. They estimate...
Third Rock Welcomes Timothy Sullivan to its Board of Advisors
Round Rock, TX, September 21, 2017 – Third Rock, a compliance management software and consulting firm, announces the addition of Timothy Sullivan to its Board of Advisors. As a technology innovator and entrepreneur spanning four decades, Mr. Sullivan has created...
Protect Yourself!
If you’ve read our blog articles before, you’ve seen our tag line; Protect your Patients. Protect your Practice. Protect Yourself. Most of our articles focus on protecting your practice and patients. Very few have been focused on you, the individual and your...
Thank Goodness! NIST says, “No more difficult passwords!”
Just when you thought all hope was lost of remembering your 16 character password with upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters; NIST comes to the rescue. That's right! The National Institute of Standards and Technology wrote a brief addendum to...
Think you can take your time when breached? Think Again!
In January of this year, the HHS Office of Civil Rights levied a $475,000 fine against Presence Health for taking too long to notify their patients - as well as the OCR - after discovering the breach of PHI (protected health information). The incident occurred in...