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MARKET FOCUS Powered by A look at trends affecting the largest verticals that security serves Graphic courtesy Ponemon Institute Healthcare: Data Breaches Growing Ninety-four percent of hospitals participating in the Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security by Ponemon Institute suffered data breaches during the past two years, with medical fles and billing and insurance records being targeted most. The survey, sponsored by ID Experts, extrapolates that based on the 80 participating healthcare organizations, data breaches could be costing the healthcare industry an average of $7 billion annually. The leading causes of data breach cited were loss of equipment (46 percent), employee errors (42 percent), third-party snafu (42 percent), criminal attack (33 percent), and technology glitches (31 percent). More than half of healthcare organizations (52 percent) had cases of medical identity theft. Mobile devices in the workplace pose threats to patient information. Eighty-one percent of healthcare organizations permit employees to use their own mobile devices, yet 54 percent say they are not confdent that these personally owned mobile devices are secure. Additionally, 91 percent of hospitals surveyed are using cloud-based services to store patient records, patient billing information and fnancial information; however, 47 percent lack confdence in the data security of the cloud. In 2012, 36 percent of healthcare organizations made improvements to privacy and security programs in response to the threat of audits conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Offce for Civil Rights. While 48 percent of surveyed organizations are conducting security risk assessments, only 16 percent are conducting privacy risk assessments. Seventy-three percent still have insuffcient resources to prevent and detect data breaches, and 67 percent do not have controls to prevent and/or quickly detect medical identity theft. Check out the full survey results at www2.idexpertscorp.com/ponemon2012 Government: Senators Push Local Courthouse Safety Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have reintroduced the Local Courthouse Safety Act, which would help improve security at smaller courthouses around the country. The law would provide local courts with access to security training, give states authority to use existing grant money to improve courthouse security, as well as give local courts access to 16 excess federal security equipment, such as metal detectors. ���My legislation w i l l g i ve co u r thouses all over the state access to the Franken resources they need to keep our justice system safe for everyone, and I���m going to keep fighting to pass it into law,��� Franken said SECURITY TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE ��� April 2013 in a statement. Franken originally introduced the bill last year following a 2011 shooting at the Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais, Minn., which injured three people including the Cook County Attorney. Earlier this year, Mark Hasse, a prosecutor in Kaufman County, Texas, was shot to death in a parking lot near the courthouse building where he worked. www.SecurityInfoWatch.com