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Top 5 HIPAA Pitfalls That Lead to PHI Leaks on Websites

Maintaining HIPAA compliance on healthcare websites is crucial for protecting PHI (Protected Health Information) and upholding patient privacy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (often referred to in short form as HIPAA or the portability and accounting act) was introduced in the United States to address the health insurance portability, security, and accountability requirements within the healthcare industry.

Security Threats to Payroll Data: How Can Your Firm Manage Them?

In modern, connected workplaces, security is a perpetual concern. Some departments in your organization handle high-risk information, such as personal employee data and company finances. Any data breach can bring on a reputational crisis and endanger internal strategic approaches. In February 2025, HR Dive reported the impact of a data breach at an employee screening services provider. The breach affected an unnerving 3.3 million people, leaking people's names and financial account information. Social Security numbers and other ID numbers also got compromised.

Egnyte CMMC Compliance Overview

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a certification program that’s required for all U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contractors to ensure they have the necessary controls to protect sensitive information. CMMC is anticipated to appear in DoD contracts as early as mid-2025. Egnyte provides an EgnyteGov secure data enclave to help manage CUI and FCI and to help you achieve compliance. Sign up for our CMMC consultation to learn how Egnyte can help with your CMMC compliance journey, so you can continue bidding on DoD contracts.

AI and Compliance with Adam Winston

This week on the podcast, we bring in Adam Winston, former CSO of ActZero and current Field CTO for Managed Services at WatchGuard to discuss automating the SOC with AI. We cover the history of AI in SecOps, the good and bad applications of AI and Machine Learning, what the future looks like, and how compliance might impact our ability to get there.

Why Secure Custom Application Development Is a Must for Modern Businesses

Security isn't just a technical concern anymore it's a core part of doing business. Many companies find themselves relying on pre-built software that wasn't designed with their specific risks or workflows in mind. These off-the-shelf tools may offer basic functionality, but they often lack the control, adaptability, and protection modern teams need. That's why more organizations are investing in custom application development: to build systems that fit their operations and protect what matters most.

4 lessons learned during our ISO 42001 audit

Vanta is proud to be one of the first companies to achieve ISO 42001 compliance with our audit partner Schellman, an ANSI-accredited ISO 42001 auditor. ‍ To prepare for and pass our audit, our team worked diligently to assess our specific business needs, communicate clearly with stakeholders and AI leadership, and complete formal training to learn how to develop, integrate, and deploy trustworthy AI systems in line with emerging laws and policies.

Essential Strategies for HIPAA Compliance and Ransomware Resilience

Neglecting regulatory compliance obligations, whether intentional or not, is not just a procedural error but a direct invitation for significant financial penalties, operational disruption, and, in the case of a healthcare organization, creating a potentially life-threatening situation. These consequences were recently illustrated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Building a hybrid data fabric for integrated security

Organizations face increasingly complex security challenges driven by the convergence of on-premises environments, cloud deployments, and edge computing nodes. The implementation of a hybrid data fabric has emerged as a powerful approach for managing and integrating data across distributed architectures while ensuring robust, integrated security. This article provides a deep dive into the technical and strategic aspects of constructing such a fabric.

Who Must Comply with NIST? A Compliance Guide

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is a U.S. federal agency that develops and promotes measurement standards, including some of the most widely used cybersecurity frameworks in the world. While originally designed to strengthen the security posture of federal systems, NIST guidelines are now used across industries as a benchmark for best practices in information security, risk management, and compliance.

Guide: What is KMI (Key Management Infrastructure)?

One of the most critical elements of modern information security is encryption. Encryption is a complex field based solely on the arms race between people seeking secure ways to encode and encrypt data at rest and in transit and those seeking to break that encryption. Encryption is extremely commonplace. Most websites you visit use SSL, the Secure Socket Layer, which uses encryption to secure data traveling between your device and the servers hosting the website.