What Healthcare Providers Need To Know About Computer Security And Standards

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Meghan in Blog

Do you see cyber and privacy incidents in the news – and worry that your computer system is at risk?

Are you overwhelmed with managing your computer network by yourself?

Jon Harmon knows that healthcare providers need to have strong computer security and standards.

Jon shares his tips about computer security and standards that every healthcare provider needs to know.

Jon Harmon is my guest expert on Practice Management Nuggets For Your Healthcare Practice.

Jon Harmon's #1 Tip to Healthcare Providers and Vendors

Keep your systems up-to-date!Click to Tweet

My Favorite Takeaways From The Podcast

When using WiFi connections, always keep devices with confidential information connected to a separate private network – this helps mitigate the risk from outside threats.
Keep you computer systems up-to-date.
Have a regular off-site backup of your data.
Always accept regular updates to all network devices.
Don't let hardware run past it's recommended lifecycle.
Regularly update yourself and your staff on computer security.
Have siloed permissions on data on a need-to-know basis.
Don't rely on one person – great computer security needs a team!

Featured Guest: Jon Harmon

Accounts Manager, TRINUS

Jon joined TRINUS as Accounts Manager in October, 2017.

He likes to challenge himself in new and exciting opportunities in the Technological world. Jon loves being a husband and a dad. He’s passionate about Martial Arts and is also an avid historian of all incarnations of Punk Rock, Classic Rock and Alternative Rock.

Visit the Trinus Technologies website!

Be sure to tune in to my interview with Jon Harmon,

What Healthcare Providers Need to Know About Computer Security and Standards | Episode #087

Listen To The Podcast Here

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Cyber Security Awareness Training for You!

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Jean Eaton in Blog

Did you know?

1/3 of all healthcare employees who should receive cyber security training, don’t get cyber security training.

You can do better!

Start here.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month! #BeCyberSmart

A great no-cost opportunity to provide cyber security awareness training to your team!

Cyber Security Awareness Training By Email

To celebrate Cyber Security Awareness Month, Information Managers is hosting free training tips by email throughout October.

In this training, Jean L. Eaton, Your Practical Privacy Coach will share cyber security tips and resources with you!

You can forward the email to easily share the tips and resources with your team.

Or, they can sign up to the email training, they will receive emails directly to their in-box.

Discuss the tips and posters to see how they best apply to your work or home cyber security practices.

Your Cyber Security Awareness Tips will be delivered to the email address that you enter above.

You'll also benefit from occasional emails about privacy and practice management.

We don't share or sell your information. Ever.

Follow Us On Social Media!

Throughout October, we will cyber security tips and free links to additional resources on our social media accounts that you can download right away! Follow us!

Whether you’re at work, at home, or on the go, threats to cybersecurity and sensitive data can follow you. Our uber-connected world makes it more important than ever to know the threats and their potential consequences.

Information Managers Ltd has been a Cyber Security Champion for many years – and now you can, too!

Cyber Security Awareness Month was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) & the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October 2004. This US organization sponsors a multi-media resource campaign each October.

https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/champions/

Please use the social share buttons below to share these Cyber Security Awareness activities with your friends and colleagues.

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Making Passwords Secure in Your Healthcare Practice

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jean Eaton in PMN Replay, PMN Stitcher

In this FREE 30-minute Practice Management Nugget Webinar with Dovell Bonnett you will learn how to fix the weakest cybersecurity link in your healthcare practice.

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

Dovell will explain why password management is the key component of managing the cybersecurity of your healthcare practice.

You need to understand how to properly implement reasonable cyber safeguards to:

protect your businesses from cyber-attacks
free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and
put IT administrators back in control of their networks

Replay is ready! Recorded Live April 21, 2016.

Replay will be available for a limited time . . . unless . . .

If you are a member of Information Managers Network you will have continued access to the replay and resources ‘forever' (as long as the internet is around).

You can return to this page (mark it as a favourite in your menu bar) – or from your Members Account Login – http://informationmanagers.ca/account/

See you soon!

Jean

Ask your questions here or use the chat:

“Expensive backend cybersecurity products are worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock!”

Dovell Bonnett

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

User authentication is the most ignored risk to enterprise cybersecurity. When end users are allowed to generate, know, remember, type and manage their own passwords, IT has inadvertently surrendered the job title Network Security Manager to employees – the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.

Dovell Bonnett reveals the truth about the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention: Expensive backend security is worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock! Making Passwords Secure breaks down THE SIMPLE TRUTH about Multi-Factor Authentication (and how to make MFA fast, easy and affordable)!

Dovell proves that making passwords secure is not only possible, passwords can actually become an effective, cost efficient and user friendly feature of robust cybersecurity. After examining how encryption keys are secured, this book introduces a new strategy called Password Authentication Infrastructure (PAI) that rivals digital certificates.

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

Dovell Bonnett has been creating computer security solutions for over 20 years. His passionate belief that technology should work for humans, and not the other way around, has lead him to create innovative solutions that protect businesses from cyber-attacks, free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and put IT administrators back in control of their networks.

He has spent most of his career designing solutions to solve business security needs, incorporating multiple applications onto single credentials using both contact and contactless smartcards. The most famous example of his work is the ID badge currently used by all Microsoft employees.

Dovell has contributed to numerous papers for the Smart Card Alliance organization; magazines, including Card Manufacturing Magazine; and is the author of two books, Online Identity Theft Protection for Dummies® and Making Passwords Secure: How to Fix the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity. Dovell is a frequent speaker and sought-after consultant on the topic of passwords, cybersecurity, and building secure, affordable and appropriate computer authentication infrastructures.

hosted by Jean Eaton of Information Managers Ltd.

Your Practice Management Mentor and Practical Privacy Coach

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Making Passwords Secure in Your Healthcare Practice

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jean Eaton in Archive

In this FREE 30-minute Practice Management Nugget Webinar with Dovell Bonnett you will learn how to fix the weakest cybersecurity link in your healthcare practice.

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

Dovell will explain why password management is the key component of managing the cybersecurity of your healthcare practice.

You need to understand how to properly implement reasonable cyber safeguards to:

protect your businesses from cyber-attacks
free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and
put IT administrators back in control of their networks

Have you seen this?

post-it notes on computer monitors with the password written on it
computer users sharing the same credentials
passwords that are easy to guess

“Expensive backend cybersecurity products are worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock!”

Dovell Bonnett

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

User authentication is the most ignored risk to enterprise cybersecurity. When end users are allowed to generate, know, remember, type and manage their own passwords, IT has inadvertently surrendered the job title Network Security Manager to employees – the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.

Dovell Bonnett reveals the truth about the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention: Expensive backend security is worthless when the virtual front door has a lousy lock! Making Passwords Secure breaks down THE SIMPLE TRUTH about Multi-Factor Authentication (and how to make MFA fast, easy and affordable)!

Dovell proves that making passwords secure is not only possible, passwords can actually become an effective, cost efficient and user friendly feature of robust cybersecurity. After examining how encryption keys are secured, this book introduces a new strategy called Password Authentication Infrastructure (PAI) that rivals digital certificates.

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

Register here for the FREE Webinar with Dovell Bonnett.

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Dovell Bonnett has been creating computer security solutions for over 20 years. His passionate belief that technology should work for humans, and not the other way around, has lead him to create innovative solutions that protect businesses from cyber-attacks, free individual computer users from cumbersome security policies, and put IT administrators back in control of their networks.

He has spent most of his career designing solutions to solve business security needs, incorporating multiple applications onto single credentials using both contact and contactless smartcards. The most famous example of his work is the ID badge currently used by all Microsoft employees.

Dovell has contributed to numerous papers for the Smart Card Alliance organization; magazines, including Card Manufacturing Magazine; and is the author of two books, Online Identity Theft Protection for Dummies® and Making Passwords Secure: How to Fix the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity. Dovell is a frequent speaker and sought-after consultant on the topic of passwords, cybersecurity, and building secure, affordable and appropriate computer authentication infrastructures.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Join us for Practice Management Nugget Webinar

Making Passwords Secure with

Dovell Bonnett

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Your Practice Management Mentor and Practical Privacy Coach

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Three Reasons Hackers Love Your Small Business

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Jean Eaton in Archive

60% of small and medium business owners go out of business

within 6 months after a privacy and security breach.

You can prevent this by implementing good policies, procedures and best practices in your office. Provide privacy and security awareness training to all of your staff. Some staff with greater responsibilities will need additional training.

You may not be able to do everything, but doing nothing is not an option.

Share this infographic with tips that you can share with your team.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month! Information Managers is celebrating by hosting our annual 15 Day Privacy Challenge. The 15 Day Privacy Challenge is a fun, no cost educational opportunity on privacy and security.

We are proud to be a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month #CyberAware #15DayPrivacyChallenge.

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month Champions

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Jean Eaton in Archive

We are proud to become a Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) 2015, joining a growing global effort among colleges and universities, businesses, government agencies, associations and non-profit organizations to promote online safety awareness.

Celebrated every October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure everyone has the resources needed to stay safer and more secure online. As an official Champion, Information Managers recognizes its commitment to cybersecurity and online safety.

Register for the 15 Day Privacy Challenge

Information Mangers is hosting a fun, no-cost privacy awareness event that starts October 15. Participants receive a daily privacy challenge to help them review their existing policies, create new polices, and improve privacy and security best practices. The challenges require ‘entry-level’ skills and are applicable to both office and personal use.

Register for the 15 Day Privacy Challenge

Do you Twitter chat?

The first Twitter chat of National #Cyber #Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM) is Thursday Oct 1!

STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global cybersecurity awareness campaign, is hosting Twitter chats each Thursday in October at 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT.

Use #ChatSTC to join the conversation, focusing on how to build a safer, more secure and more trusted #Internet.

The schedule and more information are available at National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) website.

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Jon Harmon's #1 Tip to Healthcare Providers and Vendors

My Favorite Takeaways From The Podcast

Featured Guest: Jon Harmon

Accounts Manager, TRINUS

Be sure to tune in to my interview with Jon Harmon,

1/3 of all healthcare employees who should receive cyber security training, don’t get cyber security training.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month! #BeCyberSmart

Register Below!

Cyber Security Awareness Training By Email

Follow Us On Social Media!

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

Replay is ready! Recorded Live April 21, 2016.

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

Passwords are not going away. What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

hosted by Jean Eaton of Information Managers Ltd.

Dovell Bonnett, “The Password Guy”, corrects the errors, misconceptions and lies about passwords

Have you seen this?

The management of passwords is the real security nightmare.

Passwords are not going away. What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Join us for Practice Management Nugget Webinar

Making Passwords Secure with

Dovell Bonnett

hosted by Jean Eaton of Information Managers Ltd.

60% of small and medium business owners go out of business

Register for the 15 Day Privacy Challenge

Do you Twitter chat?

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.

Passwords are not going away.
What needs to be fixed is how passwords are managed.