HIPAA enforcement within the U.S. officially got underway with the first sanction applied the the Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) in July; I blogged about it here.
Last fall the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contracted the help of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) to start doing HIPAA compliance audits for them.
Trust is very important to successful business. Trust is a result of validated reliance upon another person or entity.
Trust is NOT a control.
Maybe that is too harsh a title to describe most "managed services" provided by vendors to clients....maybe not?!
The question needs to be asked though. When is the last time a client seriously looked at what they were getting for their large investment and asked some questions of the vendor and most importantly of themselves.
If the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has done one thing, it’s been to highlight that there are such things as basic, good security practices.
