-
27 Aug 2010HIPAA & HITECH: new requirements + same approaches = new book
My colleague and co-author Becky Herold and I are working on the second edition of our HIPAA book and I'm realizing, wow, not much has changed in the way of managing information risks since we first wrote it in 2003. Yet, the protected health information breaches keep on occurring (look at the two latest ones from this week).Stay tuned though...we've got lots of good updates and new info forthcoming on ...
Continue Reading... -
01 Dec 2009
Funny thing about notices of privacy practices
I just received a "notice of insurance information practices" from my health insurance provider that says something to the effect of:"ALL INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL. We're required by law to keep your information confidential. It will be seen only by our employees and authorized business associates."Really? Pretty gutsy statement from any business but especially one who's already been listed on the Chronology of Data Breaches....
Continue Reading... -
16 Sep 2009
My latest security content
Here's my latest information security content. Hope you enjoy!Big IT Lessons Small Businesses Can Learn (an IncTechnlogy.com piece I contributed to)How often should I change the passwords for my bank and other important online accounts? (a Women's Health magazine piece I contributed to)Web 2.0 application security troubleshooting, testing tutorialHIPAA-covered entities, business associates confront HITECH Act rulesTen sure-fire ways to derail your career in IT What you should know about cloud ...
Continue Reading...
Resources
Client Testimonials
“A business associate referred our company to Principle Logic when we were seeking a resource to perform vulnerability /penetration testing for our external and internal networks. We found Kevin Beaver to be professional, well informed, and easy to work with. His testing did not disrupt our networks, and his progress updates were timely.
His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
(IT managed services firm)
Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
