The HIPAA Omnibus Rule is the rulebook that made many HITECH privacy promises real. If HITECH was the big alarm bell, the Omnibus Rule was the person yelling, “Yes, this means you too.” For healthcare compliance, the key idea is simple: HITECH created major changes, and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule put many of those changes […]...

Use MFA whenever you can, and treat 2FA as the minimum acceptable setting. Two-factor authentication is a specific version of multi-factor authentication: it asks for exactly two proof types before access is granted. Multi-factor authentication can use two, three, or more proof types, often with smarter risk checks behind the scenes. TLDR: 2FA means two […]...

Use an AWS VPC to build and isolate your cloud network; use a VPN to create a secure encrypted path into it. They are not rivals in the usual sense. A VPC is the private network space where your AWS resources live. A VPN is one of the ways users, offices, or data centers can […]...