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2 Minute Drill: HIPAA Regulations, Rapid7 Sale, and Apple's Urgent Software Fixes with Drex DeFord

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Drex shares timely updates including potential changes to HIPAA regulations aimed at clarifying security rules, Rapid7's possible sale exploration and its implications, and the importance of updating Apple devices to address critical security vulnerabilities.

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  Hey everyone, I'm Drexen. This is the Two Minute Drill, where I do three quick stories twice a week, all part of one great community, the 229 Cyber and Risk Community here at This Week Health. Today's Two Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR, the asset inventory and intelligence company. Did you know that you can know everything about everything on your network?

Every vulnerability, every risk, every user. Everything in real time. You can find out more at order. net slash healthcare. Happy Halloween! Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. We're almost done with Cybersecurity Awareness Month. That went fast. Uh, I hope you had a chance to catch all the extra Unhack the Podcast episodes we did this month with folks from the Health Sector Coordinating Council.

Amazingly free resources. created by amazingly smart people. And if you missed any of those episodes, I'll put a link in the comment section below. And for all the security and privacy and compliance pros who work together with everyone else in the organization to keep our patients and family safe, thank you, just in case nobody said that to you lately.

ity and Accountability Act of:HIPAA was written into law in:

and the associated regulations. The new proposed rule, and again, that'll be published for comment soon, will hopefully make the security rule easier to understand and interpret, hopefully. In other news, Rapid7, a cybersecurity company that provides services ranging from vulnerability management to threat detection and response, is apparently exploring a potential sale.

This isn't the first time we've seen them on this path. Last year, Rapid7 also explored its options But discussions with potential buyers ultimately fizzled out. I'll keep you updated. Speaking of updating, go ahead and update your Apple products today. Apple just released updates for iOS 18 and Mac Sequoia 15, all to fix dozens of issues.

Some of those are tied to security and privacy. All these stories are at ThisWeekHealth. com slash news, and I'm always posting news stories that are always worth a read at the news site. Today's Two Minute Drill was brought to you by ORDR. Do you really know who all your devices are talking to? You can.

Bring some ORDR to your enterprise. Find out more at ORDR. net slash healthcare. That's O R D R, ORDR. net slash healthcare. That's it for today's Two Minute Drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid. And I'll see you around campus.

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