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PRESS RELEASE:

Net Secure 2006 Conference: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SECURITY

  • Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
  • Time: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM CST
  • Presenter: Uday Ali Pabrai, CISSP, CHSS, ecfirst.com
  • Location: Illinois Institute of Technology’s Rice Campus, Wheaton, Illinois

REGISTER TODAY! http://www.cpd.iit.edu/netsecure06/registration.html

Contact: Lorna Waggoner
Phone: 1.515.453.8247 x17
Lorna.Waggoner@ecfirst.com

    

NEWPORT BEACH , CA, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE TM – FEBRUARY 15, 2006 : ECFIRST.COM today announced a security brief on REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SECURITY. This is one information security strategy brief you do not want to miss!

The need to secure the digital life of your hospital – made up of all the online communications of your customers, physicians, nurses, partners and employees – coupled with the intense pressure to deliver more effective corporate governance, and achieve legislative and regulatory compliance are impacting the way you do business. The demand is for stronger security is for secure access to Web portals, systems, and applications. The regulations we cover in our session include:

  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

In this session, you will learn about:

  • HIPAA Security and Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Challenges healthcare organizations face in the areas of secure single on and access control.
  • The COBiT framework as well as key NIST guidelines.
  • Options for ensuring high availability of critical business information to address contingency requirements.
  • Wireless security best practices.
  • How to implement an effective audit policy and integrated capabilities.

TESTIMONIAL

“Ali Pabrai the security master has does it again. He has created an all-encompassing international security guidebook for all people - at any level, who have interest in our most prevalent Information Technology (IT) issues to date- those focusing around security. The Art of Information Security is a concise and straightforward tool that should be on all of the desks and shelves of all health care information technologists,” said Brian Lane, American Hospital Association (AHA) Solutions, Vice President, Technology.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Compliance Manager, CIO, CTO, Implementation Team for Information Security, Consultants, IT Service Providers, practitioners and allied professionals in the health care, technology, government, social services and insurance industries who have access to sensitive records.

BOOK AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT: www.ecfirst.com

March 8, 2006
1:00PM - 5:00PM Central Time (US & Canada)

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

UDAY ALI PABRAI, Security+, CISSP, CHSS
Chief executive, ecfirst.com

Uday Ali Pabrai is a highly sought after InfoSec and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FISMA, SOX) expert. Based on his hands-on consulting experiences, he developed a unique security methodology, BizShield™: The Seven Steps to Enterprise Security Compliance. BizShield™ today provides the framework for many healthcare security initiatives. Mr. Pabrai also established the first and highly respected healthcare transactions, privacy, and security certification program, Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP™) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist™ (CHSS™). The CHP™ and CHSS™ programs have been attended by several agencies of the United States Armed Forces, state and county governments, hospitals, insurance and technology organizations. Mr. Pabrai is a member of the U.S. FBI InfraGard.

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Last updated: October 4, 2005