Is Amazon AWS Really HIPAA Compliant Today?

Amazon released a whitepaper called ‘Creating HIPAA-compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS’.  There is plenty to comment on, but for now I want to draw attention to some security concerns I have around AWS and thus its current readiness to handle data that...

Thank you Sony! Cybersecurity stocks soar

The massive Sony hack may have killed “The Interview,” but it’s breathing new life into cybersecurity stocks. Wall Street is betting all the attention on the Sony incident will encourage companies to ramp up spending to defend themselves from a...

Tech giants team up to build friendlier security tools

If there’s one overarching, fundamental truth about the internet, it’s that you’re never as safe as you think you are. Dropbox, Google and the Open Technology Fund get that all too well — that’s why they (along with a slew of security...