Learn How to Protect Your Security
The goal of our coalition is to ensure the best technologies are available to help you to protect yourself and your family. Additionally, knowing the critical steps to take to secure your personal information and keep it private will make all the difference.
- Protect your personal information. It’s valuable.
- Know who you are dealing with.
- Use security software that automatically updates.
- Keep your operating system and Web browser up-to-date, and learn more about their security features.
- Keep your passwords safe secure and strong.
- Back up important files.
- Know who to call when you’re under attack or if you’ve been hacked.
- Join the Secure ID Coalition.
(From onguardonline.com)
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Secure News to Know
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Meaningful Use Fails to Address Health Information Security Concerns
Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the final rule defining “Meaningful Use” for electronic health records (EHRs). Unfortunately, the definition does little to address concerns about the protection of personal health information and provides no guidance on the requirements to securely access electronic medical records.
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Cybersecurity Bill Passes Senate Homeland Security Committee
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Yesterday the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee amended and passed S.3480: Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010. Cyber attacks on our information technology networks and critical infrastructure are one of the greatest threats our country faces, potentially impacting the energy supply, financial services and communication systems. S.3480 ventures to reduce the risk of such debilitating attacks.
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Identity Authentication is the Best Medicine for the Healthcare system
Yesterday the Senate unanimously voted to designate the week of June 14, 2010 as National Health Information Technology Week. During this coming week Congress will endeavor to acknowledge the many benefits that Health IT (HIT) can bring to patients, healthcare providers and our medical system. As part of National Health Information Technology Week the Secure ID Coalition calls on Health & Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to require identity authentication in order to access electronic medical records, and personal health information.
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2010: The Year of Chip and PIN
2010 may be remembered as the year Chip and PIN payment cards came to America. With five days still left in May, two important events happened to change the payment industry in the U.S. forever.
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