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Healthcare and Security: Third-Party Medical Devices Often Provide Point of Entry

By Dick Weisinger

Cyber attacks continue to plague health care organizations. In 2016 there was a 63 percent increase in major attacks against health care providers.  Among all HIPAA data breaches, cyber attacks against health care providers now account for nearly a third…

Big Data + Precision Agriculture: Advancing the Science of Farming

By Dick Weisinger

Precision agriculture is a technique for collecting and processing data in real time to help farmers make decisions about how best to plant, fertilize and harvest crops. The technology uses of sensors monitoring plants in the field and the use…

Deep Learning: Finding Patterns in Data with Artificial Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

The Deep Learning market is growing at an annual rate of 65 percent annually and is expected to reach $1.8 billion by 2022 according to a report by Research and Markets. Deep Learning is a kind of machine learning, but…

Compliance and RegTech: Using Technology to Comply with Regulatory Requirements

By Dick Weisinger

What is Regtech?  Regtech is the application of technology to assist companies in complying with regulatory requirements.  It helps companies prove compliance, save money and become more nimble in their operations. Todd Moyer, executive vice president at Confluence, said that “a year…

Health Care: Providers not Proactive When Managing IT and Security

By Dick Weisinger

Health care providers are stuck in low gear in managing IT and security, according to to a report by Black Book that summarizes expected health care trends in 2017. Some of Black Book’s predictions for 2017 include: Hospitals and health…