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De-identification under HIPAA: 5 Frequently Asked Questions about De-identified Healthcare Data

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) safeguards patient data. Hospitals, clinics, insurance providers, and other healthcare facilities must adhere to these stringent rules. De-identification enables healthcare data to be used in meaningful research. It enables data to be analyzed to provide improved healthcare. It does this without violating personal privacy. This balance is critical to fuel innovation and ethically manage data.

Sergey Tokarev: STEM is FEM's Outcomes last year

Initially, the STEM is FEM education project was launched to encourage young schoolgirls to learn STEM disciplines. It was a step in to break gender inequity having a place in the IT sector for a long time. However, the STEM is FEM initiative has extended its objective to engage the project participants in the post-war reconstruction of devastated Ukrainian cities. Sergey Tokarev, the IT entrepreneur and initiator of STEM is FEM, shared the outcomes of implementing the educational course "Urbanism."

The states of data, Part 2: Why visibility is key for protecting data at rest

In part two of our blog series, The states of data, we’ll be discussing the various threats to sensitive data at rest in the form of a case study on Morgan Stanley’s data breach. Before we delve into that, let’s look at what data at rest is and see a few examples of data at rest in an organizational context.

Why educational institutions need robust cybersecurity solutions

Technology has been an integral part of the education industry, even before the onset of the pandemic. However, the shift from traditional classrooms to online courses, virtual classrooms, and digital textbooks has taken place at a rapid pace since 2020. This transition to the digital world has widened opportunities, but it has also opened avenues for cyberattacks and compliance violations.

Ensuring Compliance with FDIC Regulations in Financial Institutions

Financial institutions must adhere to stringent regulations set forth by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information. Title 12, Chapter 3, Subchapter B, Part 364 of the Code of Federal Regulations is particularly important, outlining the standards for information security that these institutions must follow, especially regarding the handling of customer information and data.

CCPA Compliance Guide: How to Get Your Business CCPA Compliant

Over the past few years, businesses have been fighting against the threat of data breaches and cyberattacks, and customers are trying to find new ways to protect their privacy online and keep their data safe from being shared with third parties. Since 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act and others, such as the GDPR, have made it a legal obligation for companies to protect user data. As a result, other states are starting to follow suit.

Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp

Chances are good that today you’ve sent a message through an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app such as WhatsApp, Signal, or iMessage. While we often take the privacy of these conversations for granted, they in fact rely on decades of research, testing, and standardization efforts, the foundation of which is a public-private key exchange.

Cloudflare partners with Internet Service Providers and network equipment providers to deliver a safer browsing experience to millions of homes

In 2018, Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, one of the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS services. 1.1.1.1 was the first consumer product Cloudflare ever launched, focused on reaching a wider audience. This service was designed to be fast and private, and does not retain information that would identify who is making a request. In 2020, Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1 for Families, designed to add a layer of protection to our existing 1.1.1.1 public resolver.