HIT Consultant Podcasts Offers Insight Into Avoiding Cyber Threats

Jan. 23, 2012 - PRLog -- New HIT Consultant Podcast Helps Organizations Avoid Cyber Threats

Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 23, 2012:  The newest podcast release on HIT Consultant.net features expertise from Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll, Inc.  In Dec. 2011, the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll, Inc. released its annual top 10 security forecast which highlighted key areas of risk trends that impact how organizations and government combat and respond to cyber threats. HIT Consultant was able to secure an interview with Brill to talk about this annual report. The podcast was released on Friday, Jan. 20.

This podcast is broken into a two-part series. Each part will be approximately 30 minutes. The first podcast interview relays information about organizational risks, Kroll’s methodology and approach, common healthcare security cyber attacks and making security a priority to healthcare institutions and organizations.

“The epidemic of security breaches in healthcare organizations must be addressed with healthcare leaders taking an aggressive approach in combating the threat of cyber security breaches with proper security policies and procedures training, performing risk assessments, establishing a risk mitigation plan and making security and privacy a priority in budget planning,” said Fred Pennic, founder of HIT Consultant. “…healthcare organizations must adopt best practices that can greatly reduce their potential threat of cyber security breaches, as well as quickly respond and recover potential loss and theft of data in shorter time frames”.

The second part to this podcast series with Brill and Kroll, Inc. is scheduled to be released at the end of the month.

About Kroll: Kroll, the world's leading risk consulting company, provides a broad range of investigative, intelligence, financial, security, technology and supplier management services to help clients reduce risks, solve problems and capitalize on opportunities.

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