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Securing against the Inside Job

By Jeffery P. Drummond

Securing Against the Inside Job: Most of the security focus baked into HIPAA relates to protecting the PHI you send, use and maintain focuses on outside threats. The Virginia prescription drug hacking case is a good recent example. But, where is your biggest threat? It's not so much an outsider; most cases of data loss due to outside actors are laptop and pda thefts, or office break-ins.

Full post as published by HIPAA Blog on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).