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HIPAA Disaster Recovery Planning

VISTA InfoSec

However, ePHI is vulnerable to threats like cyber attacks and natural disasters, making disaster recovery planning (DRP) vital. Healthcare organizations must implement HIPAA-compliant DRPs to protect ePHI, ensuring continued operation during disasters. Why Is Disaster Planning Important for Healthcare Organizations?

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From disaster recovery to data security: Sungard AS goes big on PCI

Payments Source

In its role as a security compliance and disaster recovery firm, Sungard Availability Services has seen merchants warming up to the Payment Card Industry data security standards.

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Banks, merchants look for reforms, resilience in the face of natural disasters

Payments Dive

Governments, industry organizations and financial institutions have been looking for ways to strengthen these vulnerable systems to make sure consumers and merchants can continue to function during disaster recovery periods.

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Wells glitch shows all banks should re-examine card and ATM processes

Payments Source

By learning from the struggles that resulted from Wells Fargo’s outages, the rest of the financial world can improve its own disaster recovery plans, writes Todd Matters, chief architect and co-founder of RackWare.

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A Network In A Time Of Need: Credit Unions Go National When Disaster Strikes

PYMNTS

PSCU CEO Chuck Fagan told Karen Webster in a recent conversation that his company has spent much of this year helping credit unions (CUs) navigate these disasters and challenges. Those efforts culminated with the National Credit Union Foundation’s recent launch of the CUAid Disaster Recovery App , in collaboration with PSCU.

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FIs: Embracing The Cloud Involves More Than Business Continuity ‘Lip Service’

PYMNTS

Typically, he told Webster, the smaller firms that are the least mature – with local systems and legacy tech in place – have not examined their disaster recovery or continuity plans. Companies that are a bit more mature may be operating across multiple sites and have at least some disaster recovery roadmap in place.

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At Equifax breach’s anniversary, most institutions still lack resilience

Payments Source

While nearly all banks, financial institutions and other organizations have a disaster recovery strategy in place, it’s clear that these plans are not enough to ensure these organizations remain online, regardless of what happens, according to Gijsbert Jassen van Doorn, technology evangelist at Zerto.