The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defines a transaction as an electronic exchange of information between two parties, to carry out financial or administrative activities related to healthcare. For example, a health care provider will send a claim to a health plan to request payment for medical services.

Every time you log on to the Internet, you put your IT systems and the data you handle at risk. At the same time, it’s also impossible to run a successful business without going online, so a key element of modern business management is a strong cybersecurity risk management program. Why? Because the only people in the cybersecurity field working harder than software engineers are the criminals trying to find a new way to breach the latest network security measures.

NIST is the abbreviated name of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It’s one of many federal agencies under the U.S. Department of Commerce, and is one of the oldest physical science laboratories in the United States. As a non-regulatory government agency, NIST was originally founded to enable greater industrial competitiveness in the United States. Its focus stems from the mantra, “One cannot manage what is not measured.

The PCI DSS compliance password requirements are mandated by Requirement 8 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Password compliance plays a key role in the PCI standards because it dictates the password complexity necessary to help an organization better defend its systems against unauthorized access.

SAN FRANCISCO – May 18, 2021 – Reciprocity, a leader in information security risk and compliance with its ZenGRC platform, today announced ZenGRC has been awarded four coveted Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) InfoSec Awards: Most Innovative in IT Vendor Risk Management, Cutting Edge in Risk Management, Most Innovative in Third Party Risk Management, and Publisher’s Choice in Compliance.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, is a federal government program to provide a standardized approach for security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud services and cloud products offered by cloud service providers (CSPs). FedRAMP creates a single risk-based standard so government agencies can engage with cloud-based providers more easily.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a federal law that applies to all publicly traded businesses in the United States. It imposes sweeping corporate governance standards on those businesses, to improve accountability in the boardroom and senior management ranks and to make corporate financial statements more reliable.

SAN FRANCISCO – May 4, 2021 First Quarter 2021 Highlights Reciprocity, a leader in information security risk and compliance with its ZenGRC platform, today announced the company saw outstanding results in the first quarter of 2021, achieving new records across its go-to-market initiatives, coming off an unprecedented 2020. Last year the management of risk and compliance became a strategic imperative and top board-level concern.

Understand why compliance programs fail, and where you can identify failure points and vulnerabilities before they become liabilities.