by: Aaron W. Brooks Digital storage systems raise a number of legal issues that are challenging yet manageable if they are fully understood. One such issue is managing the durability of electronic data when the original paper document is no longer available to remaster the digital image if it were to become lost or inaccessible. […]
Aaron Brooks June 22nd, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
by: Aaron W. Brooks The terms “cloud computing” and “cloud storage” are generally used to describe any system of managing or storing data that is not dependent upon a single device or computer. “Cloud computing” usually means that the data can be accessed over the Internet, and frequently means that the data is stored on […]
Aaron Brooks May 11th, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
by: Aaron W. Brooks This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold its First Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference. The core purpose of the Conference will be to analyze the results of last fall’s Round 1 Submissions process, in which candidates submitted proposals to standardize one or more quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. […]
Aaron Brooks April 11th, 2018
Posted In: Privacy, Security & Information Technology
By: Aaron W. Brooks In February, 2009, Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Included within the statute was a new rule that anyone covered by the HIPAA privacy and security regulations must give certain notifications when they […]
Aaron Brooks April 24th, 2011
Posted In: Information Security, Privacy, Security & Information Technology