Healthcare Information Security Podcast

To Brian Lapidus, COO of Kroll's Fraud Solutions group, the main threat to data security can be summed up in two words: social networking.

Geisinger Health System is changing its approach to user authentication for its various portals, says Dave Young, IT director of web services.

Researchers explore adapting geolocation technology to identify where data reside on the cloud so organizations can comply with IT security laws and regulations, RSA Chief Technology Officer Bret Hartman says.

Healthcare futurist Jeff Bauer explains why he believes the federal electronic health record incentive program has a slim chance of success.

An audio review of 2011 forecasts posted on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com in December.

More storage capacity, less cost - this is the promise of cloud computing for healthcare organizations.

Attorney Kathy Roe of The Health Law Consultancy sizes up the healthcare information privacy and security regulatory outlook for 2011.

Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Labs threat research vice president, discusses the company's annual threat predictions, saying: "We are seeing an escalating threat landscape in 2011."

"The environment that started by supporting whistleblowers ... is essentially morphing into 'Gee, we as an organization need to be completely transparent, whether we want to or not,'" says Cal Slemp, managing director of Protiviti.

Thwarting the insider threat entails more than knowing an individual with access to a computer, but to recognize the synergy between the individual, organization, technology and environment, I3P Research Director Shari Lawrence Pfleeger says.

2011 will be the year of more -- more sophisticated malware, more WikiLeaks-style breaches and more regulatory compliance headaches.

"Literally, in my entire time working in the privacy field, I've never seen such profound and aggressive activity by the government in the privacy space," privacy expert Thomas Oscherwitz says.

Ron Kloewer, CIO at 25-bed Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, explains why the critical access facility's spending on information security will grow in 2011.

This week's top news and views: Revised NHIN Governance Plan Advances; Sizing Up the Role of XML in EHRs; Top Healthcare Security Trends for 2011. And don't miss our audio week-in-review podcast by Howard Anderson, managing editor.

Devising strategies for ensuring social media are not used in ways that violate patient privacy is one of the top trends for 2011, says Lisa Gallagher, senior director of privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

With a hodgepodge of networks, applications and operating systems to manage - maintaining security and preventing breaches can be difficult. The challenges are daunting, but solutions are at hand. This is the perspective of Roark Pollock of HP Tippingpoint. In an interview, Pollock discusses three specific challenges: Regulatory compliance; Patch management; Virtualized environments.

Expanding use of secure messaging as well as remote access to information systems are key 2011 IT priorities for Shriners Hospitals for Children, says Bill Bria, M.D., chief medical information officer.

NIST's Ron Ross Tackles the Risk Management Framework

If Marcus Ranum were your CISO, this would be his 2011 resolution: To launch a "War Games" style exercise.

Hemu Nigam says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become akin to a "cyber messiah" And Assange's followers have proven: "If you turn your back on our messiah, we are going to take you down."