How Secure Wire Transfer Procedures Can Prevent Business Email Compromise
Formerly known as the “man in the email attack,” business email compromise (BEC) is a scam that takes control of a senior employee’s email account with...
Sara A.
Sara is an eclectic and passionate technical writer, with a high interest in health and information security. Her contribution to InfoSec Institute started in 2016 with a series of articles in Health and IT, from which she extended her expertise to information security in other fields.
Phishing Attacks in the Manufacturing Industry
In the second quarter of 2017, the manufacturing industry was the most targeted by cyber-attacks, with 24% of attacks globally, according to NNT Security report....
Phishing Attacks in the Not-For-Profit Industry
Although the non-profit sector is not in the top phished industries of 2017, it is not as safe as one may think. The statistics from Privacy Rights Clearing...
Security+: Mitigating Security Risks in Static Environments (SY0-401) [DECOMMISSIONED ARTICLE]
A static environment is a system that does not change considerably after installation and deployment, in contrast with a dynamic environment.
In a...
CISSP: Disaster recovery processes and plans
This article is part of our CISSP certification prep series. For more CISSP-related resources, see our CISSP certification hub.
Disaster recovery is the...
Change management and the CISSP
This article is part of our CISSP certification prep series. For more CISSP-related resources, see our CISSP certification hub.
When a business begins to use a change...
HIPAA Security Rule
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a US law that came into force in 1996 in order to ensure the privacy and security of health...
HIPAA and IT Security
The health care system, and the research organizations within it, is a sensitive sector and one of the most exposed to privacy risks, which makes the security...
Security Risk Assessment in Health Care
Security Risk Assessment in Care Settings are intended to protect and secure health information (electronic protected health information or ePHI) from a wide...
Risk Management in Healthcare
Following security risk assessment, security risk management is the second step of the security management process standard, which is the first administrative...