data breaches

Tresorit launches ZeroKit to bring ready-made security to Apple's CareKit

By Jonah Comstock 07:00 pm January 10, 2017

A company called Tresorit has launched a new SDK called ZeroKit, meant to help developers working on Apple's CareKit platform surmount one of the biggest hurdles to developing healthcare applications: security. ZeroKit launched today and was promoted by Apple in a blog post on the CareKit website. "We decided that healthcare is the sector that needs this technology the most given the recent data...

New government how-to guide hopes to prevent mobile EHR data breaches

By Jonah Comstock 08:46 am July 27, 2015

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has penned a five-part draft guidance on cybersecurity for mobile devices that connect to electronic health records. The guidance includes a step-by-step how-to guide for improving data security that uses commercially available and open source tools and technologies, as...