Tag: NEC

HIPAA Omnibus Rule: Should your organization’s IT department fret over it? — Part II

In the first part of this 2-part blog , we saw the update about the HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the deadline for compliance (September 23rd). Now, let’s analyze the before & after of this new rule, and if it really applies to you. (Check out the examples given for better understanding.) The Scene Before HIPAA Omnibus… Before this law was enacted, it was the responsibility of healthcare providers (hospitals, clearinghouses, insurance companies, etc.) to report to HHS about any breach into the protected health information (PHI) that they store. And they had to comply with the detailed HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule in order to show that the PHI had been properly safeguarded, and not been exposed or manipulated.

Beware, your social media password could let your business down!

Social Media emerges the most convenient platform for cyber-criminals; Using same password across social media and business applications makes your business vulnerable to attacks! Over 12 per cent of the world population is on social network and the number keeps growing exponentially. Those who do not own an account in Facebook or Twitter are now being viewed as those living in prehistoric times. No doubt, social media is wonderful in helping you stay connected with friends, but the sheer popularity of social media attracts the attention of cyber-criminals looking for ways to harvest identities.

All New Distributed Edition of NetFlow Analyzer

Until 2012, NetFlow Analyzer’s Enterprise edition benefited ISPs, MSPs and large organizations that had distributed network architecture, in monitoring their bandwidth. Any organization with less than 600 interfaces and want to monitor all of them by installing product on Head Quarters data center can go with Professional and Professional Plus Edition which has integrated collectors and reporting engine which collects the data and generate reports. The Enterprise edition was majorly used by organizations that had a distributed architecture and monitoring was done by means of Central server and multiple collectors across different sites in the same network.

Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies?

Recently we have seen quite a few customer issues where using RDP cookies (mstshash cookies see – http://www.snakelegs.org for more details) seems to result in multiple active sessions over several RDP servers as shown below (Notice the user Rob on both TS Servers). So we decided to investigate this and find out why……..

AD360 – an integrated solution for Active Directory and Exchange Management.

Efficient management of Active Directory and Exchange setup is crucial to the smooth functioning of an organization using Windows. Today’s Identity and Access management (IAM) needs of an organization pose a serious challenge to the IT administrators.