The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA for short, was founded to safeguard patients' health information and medical history by enforcing a set of rigorous and evolving compliance…
On December 14th, GovDataHosting sponsored CMS Industry Day. This virtual event included a great line up of inspiring speakers who are leaders in innovative technologies. A few highlights included cybersecurity…
When multinational enterprises or government agencies experience a cybersecurity incident, it makes the news. But every day, organizations large and small are impacted by cyberattacks, ransomware, and other…
There are many cloud service providers (CSPs) that claim to provide exceptional performance and service for their customers. With so many CSPs competing for your attention with differing offerings, how do you choose the…
A whistleblower complaint against Twitter filed this summer by the microblogging and social networking platform’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, alleges substantial and systemic security failings at the company.…
The release of the 2024 White House budget proposal demonstrates the administration’s emphasis on enhancing and modernizing the federal government’s cybersecurity posture. Zero trust, secure by design, and equipping the…
The personal identifiable information (PII) of over 1 billion Chinese citizens has been hacked, according to an anonymous user of an online cybercrime forum who has attempted to sell the entire 23-terabyte database for…
When the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) replaced the Cloud First policy in 2019 with the more long-term, forward-looking, and practicality-driven Cloud Smart strategy, the goal was to help…
Downtime, data loss, and system failure are all tale-tell signs of a breach or cybersecurity incident. As cyber criminals use more and more sophisticated technologies to chip away at the best-laid cybersecurity plans,…
FedRAMP has published an updated Threat-Based Risk Profiling Methodology White Paper (and an accompanying dataset on FedRAMP’s GitHub repository) that delineates changes in the way risk management decisions are made…