Christine Meyers is the product marketing manager for Attachmate Luminet and has been writing on security, emerging technologies, risk and compliance for over a decade. You can follow her Tweets on issues related to enterprise fraud, investigation, and behavioral analytics @LuminetEFM.
by Christine Meyers
25 October 2011
Meeting the Challenge of HIPAA Compliance HIPAA, the Final Privacy rule and various state regulations governing patient privacy all have one thing in common. They all require organizations to demonstrate access to PHI on a minimum need-to-know basis. That places the burden of governing access on the institution. In an audit situation, that means the [...]
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by Christine Meyers
18 October 2011
It’s easy to point fingers when another organization has an insider fraud incident. But information from the new Survey on the Risk of Insider Fraud by Attachmate Corporation and Ponemon Instituteshows that more organizations need to turn a scrutinizing eye toward their own risk. The survey encompassed more than 700 organizations and revealed some alarming [...]
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by Christine Meyers
7 October 2011
The new Verizon report came out this week. Always a favorite, this report highlights insider fraud, breach risks and other useful data. Here are some of my favorite stats: • 83% of attacks were classified as “opportunistic” meaning the victim was identified because they exhibited a weakness or vulnerability that the attacker could exploit. (pg. 52) [...]
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by Christine Meyers
2 October 2011
Enterprise fraud and misuse is on the rise. A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that of the organizations surveyed, on average respondents experienced more than one incident of employee-related fraud per week – about 53 in a year’s time. Twenty-four percent of respondents indicated that their organizations experienced more than 100 incidents in the past 12 [...]
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by Christine Meyers
25 September 2011
Financial losses from the recent data hacks on banks and online services are being revealed bit by bit. For example, last month Citigroup disclosed that its credit card customers suffered losses of around $2.7 million from their account details being stolen. While the loss is serious it actually only applied to 1% of the cards affected [...]
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