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Compliance Your “HIPAA Compliant” Email & Messaging Apps are Being Targeted & Hacked The need for improved HIPAA compliant technologies is becoming more apparent. The number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has increased steadily for the past four years. From 2015 to 2018 alone, healthcare breaches increased [https://www.hipaajournal.com/study-reveals-70-increase-in-healthcare-data-breaches-between-2010-and-2017/] by more than 26%. And while cyber attacks are

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity If Cybersecurity is the “Biggest Threat” to Western Powers, Why is there NO Cybersecurity Zone at DSEI 2019? Over 35,000 people will stroll the aisles at DSEI this year. They expect exhibitors, more than 1,600 of them, to amaze with new, innovative solutions for the greatest problems in defence. The world’s biggest defence contractors and service providers will be there demonstrating their latest and most

Cecilia Clark • 10 min read

Compliance A Bank’s Biggest Challenge: Data Security Compliance There have been more than 500 bank failures in the past decade. More than 500 failures. Of them, most were smaller community banks that couldn’t recover from the effects of the Great Recession. Since the economic downturn, the surviving banks are regaining strength and financial stability, but many are

Cecilia Clark • 6 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Hackers Are Targeting Community Banks. Here’s What You Need to Know. “Our money is safer under the mattress than it is in the community bank!” We all sort of laughed at my neighbor’s conclusion to the philosophical discussion about current banking cyber crimes. About five of us were tossing around our perceptions of the cyber readiness of financial institutions when

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

News Does the Raytheon Technologies Merger Threaten National Security? Last month, aerospace giant United Technologies and defense leader Raytheon announced their merger. The new company, Raytheon Technologies Corp, will be the second largest aerospace-defense entity in the world. And while most of the aerospace-defense world reacted with varying degrees of surprise, some are looking at this merger a bit

Cecilia Clark • 8 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity How Hackers Are Spying on US & Canadian Special Forces The United States military has over 2 million uniformed members. When we think about that number, it’s easy to envision a massive fighting force positioned all over the world defending the country and its allies. In reality, however, a mere 2% of that force – an elite group known as

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

News What You (and Your Boss) Need to Know About the Facebook + WhatsApp Merge Things have changed. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when companies and organizations felt confident and secure in communicating via email. As technology developed, many of those entities supplemented their communications by adding text messaging to send quick updates or transmit time sensitive information. These days, most enterprises

Cecilia Clark • 12 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity The Comms Tool I Wish I Had in US Nuclear Operations Better. That’s how RSA wrapped up the main idea for their 2019 conference. How can we communicate safer, faster, better? Thinking about this theme made me reflect on my time as an Army Signal Officer with the Joint Nuclear Operations Center (JNOC). It was me, my Platoon Sergeant, a

Cecilia Clark • 6 min read

News ClearChat Becomes HighSide, Inc Bottomline Up Front For those of you not interested in all of the exciting details, this is what you need to know: ClearChat, Inc is now HighSide, Inc. To get the new HighSide app, all you have to do is boot up your existing install of ClearChat and after about

Brendan Diaz • 6 min read

Engineering HighSide Open Sources its Encryption Code Here we open source the encryption modules used in the ClearChat client. We share it under the MIT license [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#License_terms] in the hope that it will be of use to the public. AESEncryption.py does authenticated AES256 encryption and decryption. highlevelcrypto.py

Jonathan Warren • 7 min read