Telehealth was an unexpected technology bright spot in 2020, as the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) relaxed enforcement of certain aspects of HIPAA, helping to reduce COVID exposure via virtual rounding and virtual visits. The following three high-level recommendations provide a basis for defense in depth for healthcare organizations in 2021.

When planning for business continuity and resiliency through 2026, security and risk management professionals should pay attention to these trends.

New data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that drug overdose fatalities are at the highest recorded 12-month period. 

Contact-tracing solutions are often talked about as a COVID-19 response strategy for enterprises as they resume travel and continue business operations. In defining a digital contact tracing strategy, enterprises must decide whether or not they even need one distinct from efforts undertaken by local health authorities. Learn here how to implement a digital contact-tracing strategy, as well as how to sort through the large volume of options when it comes to contact tracing to determine what makes the most sense for your security team and your organization.

This article discusses extremism in the United States as we close out 2020 and look to 2021. Security professionals can educate themselves on what extremist groups are out there and where the risks lie.

With mobile usage a dominant channel going forward, authentication techniques need to move beyond two steps forward for authentication and one step backward for user experience. Just as passwords are being discarded because of the high friction they create for users, new multi-factor authentication techniques are moving in.

With the growing adoption of connected solutions like telehealth come heightened security risks. How can healthcare organizations best balance protection, innovation, and patient care? Recognizing the increasingly interconnected nature of IT infrastructure, and incorporating security into product design, is a start.

For most of their existence, the focus of elevator improvements has been on cost and efficiency. While those are still important, new technologies are closing the gap in current building security processes by putting the focus on vertical transportation.