The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the HIPAA Privacy Rule to implement the requirements of HIPAA. The HIPAA Security Rule protects a subset of information covered by the Privacy Rule. 

With the advent of Industry 4.0, millions of businesses are utilizing advanced technology like the Internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for scalability. It's high time, Indian businesses start leveraging such technologies to grow at the fastest speed with profitability.

ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) – the privacy extension of ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) – establishes privacy controls for the processing of personal data. ISO 27701 will support organizations in meeting the regulatory requirements by providing a harmonized framework to plan and implement its approach to achieve compliance with multiple regulations. This standard may become the foundation for future GDPR certifications.

In 2001, seventeen software developers met in Utah to publish the ‘Manifesto for Agile Software Development’ that changed the industry as we know it.

 

Traditional network security focuses on perimeter defenses. Once inside the network perimeter, users are “trusted” and often given broad access to many corporate resources. But threat actors can come from inside or outside the network, and several high-profile cyberattacks in recent years have undermined the case for the perimeter-based security model. Moreover, the perimeter has become less relevant due to the growth of cloud computing and changes in the modern workforce such as increased mobility and Work from Home.