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Choosing a HIPAA Compliance Product in 2023

All covered entities must comply with HIPAA or face fines of up to $50,000 for every violation. However, with such high cybersecurity standards and insufficient implementation guidance, it's not surprising that HIPAA violations are common occurrences. To overcome the challenges of adhering to HIPAA’s stringent safeguards, covered entities are turning to HIPAA compliance software for support.

How we built a secure RDP client

Today’s remote desktop protocol (RDP) clients don’t do enough to promote a strong security posture. They default to weak password-based authentication, leaving Windows infrastructure vulnerable to brute force attacks, and assume a direct connection to a well-known port is available. At Teleport we’re a bit bonkers about always trying to build the most secure solution, so we set out to do something different.

The Top Cyber Attacks of August 2023

There was some good news on the cybersecurity front in August, starting with a joint effort by U.S. and European authorities that broke up a far-reaching network of compromised computers used in attacks on healthcare organizations around the world. The takedown also netted more than $8 million in illicit cryptocurrency from Russian-affiliated hacking groups.

How Much Does it Cost to Get SOC 2?

A commonly asked question about SOC 2 is “How much does a SOC 2 attestation cost?” However, there isn’t a single answer, because the cost depends on multiple factors. The total costs of a SOC 2 audit can range from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this article, we will see what specific factors influence an audit’s cost, how you can estimate the expense, the cost breakdown, and how you can lower this expense with the help of automation.

Weekly Cybersecurity Recap September 8

Each week, new data breaches plague the public. This week, significant healthcare and retail breaches led to substantial data losses for customers and patients throughout the United States. With companies like Forever 21, Callaway, and United Healthcare involved, there were serious data losses. Cognizant and Indiana Medicaid were also breached this week. Learn all the details below.

UnitedHealthcare Patients Exposed in An Unexpected Data Breach

UnitedHealthcare is a large insurance company that serves more than 8 million Americans throughout the United States. The company gathers health, personal, and financial information and utilizes all those different data points to provide reliable insurance services. It's upsetting to learn that UnitedHealthcare was recently attacked and significant data may have been lost.

Securing Endpoints By Applying 'Passive Income' Concepts

Investing in cybersecurity is a lot like working hard to save for retirement. Your budget’s already tight, but you must secure the future. You’re faced with endless headlines and market updates that make you nervous about making the wrong choices – or not making moves quickly enough amid fast-changing conditions.

Enabling Workload-Level Security for AKS with Azure Firewall and Calico Egress Gateway

Teams implementing the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and using the Hub and Spoke network topology often rely on the Azure Firewall to inspect traffic coming from Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. However, they face challenges in precisely identifying the origin of that traffic as it traverses the Azure Firewall. By default, traffic leaving a Kubernetes cluster is not assigned a meaningful network identity that can be used to associate it with the application it came from.