Thank you. I was aware that they were in technical compliance, but I was not aware that Azure had started offering the business associate agreement. The link below seems to indicate that AWS is still "looking into" the matter, but I haven't found anything conclusive that says they will offer it. Needless to say, I'm starting a project immediately to begin an Azure deployment for my organization.
This will be revolutionary for the healthcare industry.
Let me explain for those of you who have never dealt with HIPAA. HIPAA requires that an entity possessing protected healthcare information(PHI) keep that data safe and secure. Additionally, any outside entity coming in contact with PHI must sign a business associates agreement also agreeing to keep any PHI in their possession safe. None of the major cloud players will sign such agreements, which means any PHI can't go into the cloud. This means any practical deployment of say a hadoop cluster to reduce the process time of a large ETL job isn't feasible.
Now there is a tiny loophole in that encrypted PHI isn't treated as PHI at all. This means we can pass data through cloud services to backup for example, but doing any manipulating of the data is impossible due to the fact that as soon as you decrypt it, it's PHI and that's a big no-no. And this is where we lead back to homomorphic cryptography being revolutionary for the world of healthcare data.
"Among the largest breaches reported was TRICARE Management Activity, the Department of Defense's health care program, which reported 4.9 million records lost when backup tapes went missing."
Submitter should have dug a little bit further. TRICARE was the agency where the records originated, but SAIC was the "business associate" that actually lost the records belonging to TRICARE.
It isn't perfect, but I've been on Cricket for almost two years now and have been happy. You can complain all you want about not having all of the features you want, but the big players won't change their game until enough of us switch to a carrier not out to completely goatse us.
I applied for a job earlier this year, and the pool company rejected my 'text format' resume, insisting on a resume submitted via Linked In. The last thing I wanted to do was have to join some social network just to get a job. I lived 10 minutes away from the home.office of the job and offered to meet to interview and hand them a hard copy resume. No dice, it had to be done by this Linked In.
Now, after reading this news, I know it was the right decision. This internet sure has gotten wacky.
I've noticed this as a growing trend. Generally the reasoning behind such things is people are far less likely to outright lie on a linkedin profile where former co-workers and classmates will also see it than on a resume that is only read by a hiring manager and HR.
Eve handles large scale battles just fine. The problem is, the term "large scale battle" gets redefined every time their network code gets updated. Over the past few months there have been dozens of large scale battles with less players in this particular matchup, but still having hundreds more players than would be possible in years past.
As for only having 8 hours a week to play, eve is probably one of the most casual-friendly games out there. Skills train whether you're online or not. All ships, even the basic newbie ships which require virtually nil resources and training time play a role.
He hacked the logins which is pretty much equivalent to hacking an email account. The eve online thefts were all perpetuated via in-game mechanisms and since the game's terms state that all in-game items are property of the maker of the game, there was no actual IRL theft to prosecute.
You mean that damn *mumble mumble* gopher isn't dead yet? I thaught I gawt im wiph dah bunny c-4. That does it, I'm getting mydoom's gophinator 3000 and ending this once and for all. god damn *mumble mumble* gopher ruining my gauf course.
Can someone explain to me why this isn't illegal? Theres a law from the 1930's that prohibits telephone operators from listening to people's conversations. A few years back it was ruled that ISP's are in the same category as the telephone operators as far as the law is conccerned, and thus can't spy on what their users are doing. Yes I know its a university, but I think they can qualify as an ISP as well.
The worse situation is when the error is seemingly minor, and goes unnoticed: when that floating point number gets converted to an integer and nobody notices.
Or when your floating point number is off by a decimal or two and your bank account grows by too much and gets noticed. Just hope you get lucky and the place burns down before someone sees the problem.
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None of the big players except Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Azure:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/07/25/security-privacy-amp-compliance-update-microsoft-offers-customers-and-partners-a-hipaa-business-associate-agreement-baa-for-windows-azure.aspx
http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/amazon-cloud-earns-fisma-government-security-accreditation/
Thank you. I was aware that they were in technical compliance, but I was not aware that Azure had started offering the business associate agreement. The link below seems to indicate that AWS is still "looking into" the matter, but I haven't found anything conclusive that says they will offer it. Needless to say, I'm starting a project immediately to begin an Azure deployment for my organization.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=444933
This will be revolutionary for the healthcare industry.
Let me explain for those of you who have never dealt with HIPAA. HIPAA requires that an entity possessing protected healthcare information(PHI) keep that data safe and secure. Additionally, any outside entity coming in contact with PHI must sign a business associates agreement also agreeing to keep any PHI in their possession safe. None of the major cloud players will sign such agreements, which means any PHI can't go into the cloud. This means any practical deployment of say a hadoop cluster to reduce the process time of a large ETL job isn't feasible.
Now there is a tiny loophole in that encrypted PHI isn't treated as PHI at all. This means we can pass data through cloud services to backup for example, but doing any manipulating of the data is impossible due to the fact that as soon as you decrypt it, it's PHI and that's a big no-no. And this is where we lead back to homomorphic cryptography being revolutionary for the world of healthcare data.
You wouldn't download a movie that falls apart after 8 uses would you?
Of a Beowulf Cluster?
It's gone.
You work for Apple or Samsung?
"Among the largest breaches reported was TRICARE Management Activity, the Department of Defense's health care program, which reported 4.9 million records lost when backup tapes went missing."
Submitter should have dug a little bit further. TRICARE was the agency where the records originated, but SAIC was the "business associate" that actually lost the records belonging to TRICARE.
the Nexus Qcat?
It isn't perfect, but I've been on Cricket for almost two years now and have been happy. You can complain all you want about not having all of the features you want, but the big players won't change their game until enough of us switch to a carrier not out to completely goatse us.
"You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content."
This is a feature right?
I applied for a job earlier this year, and the pool company rejected my 'text format' resume, insisting on a resume submitted via Linked In. The last thing I wanted to do was have to join some social network just to get a job. I lived 10 minutes away from the home.office of the job and offered to meet to interview and hand them a hard copy resume. No dice, it had to be done by this Linked In.
Now, after reading this news, I know it was the right decision.
This internet sure has gotten wacky.
I've noticed this as a growing trend. Generally the reasoning behind such things is people are far less likely to outright lie on a linkedin profile where former co-workers and classmates will also see it than on a resume that is only read by a hiring manager and HR.
Eve handles large scale battles just fine. The problem is, the term "large scale battle" gets redefined every time their network code gets updated. Over the past few months there have been dozens of large scale battles with less players in this particular matchup, but still having hundreds more players than would be possible in years past.
As for only having 8 hours a week to play, eve is probably one of the most casual-friendly games out there. Skills train whether you're online or not. All ships, even the basic newbie ships which require virtually nil resources and training time play a role.
He hacked the logins which is pretty much equivalent to hacking an email account. The eve online thefts were all perpetuated via in-game mechanisms and since the game's terms state that all in-game items are property of the maker of the game, there was no actual IRL theft to prosecute.
I for one welcome our new Indian overlords!
You mean that damn *mumble mumble* gopher isn't dead yet? I thaught I gawt im wiph dah bunny c-4. That does it, I'm getting mydoom's gophinator 3000 and ending this once and for all. god damn *mumble mumble* gopher ruining my gauf course.
So are these like, for knocking out all those negative waves?
Now we can start to crack down on all the evil pirates who hum songs in their head without paying for them!
Hillary Rosen, Iraqs new Press Minister announced today that thousands of American soldiers had been taken prisoner.
General Franks later clarrified that what she meant to say is the equivalent of thousands of iraqi soldiers had been captured.
Anyone else look at the title and immediately think this could be the first back to back dupe?
Maybe they should try costumes painted with superblack paint?
Can someone explain to me why this isn't illegal? Theres a law from the 1930's that prohibits telephone operators from listening to people's conversations. A few years back it was ruled that ISP's are in the same category as the telephone operators as far as the law is conccerned, and thus can't spy on what their users are doing. Yes I know its a university, but I think they can qualify as an ISP as well.
Microsoft's law: what you get when you put Moore's law and Murphy's law together.
The number of critical bugs doubles every 18 months?
From our alien master creators that we should kill more sheep and eat lamb chops.
No it wouldn't, but its a perfectly legal thing to do that doesn't take up a whole lot of bandwidth, but will be restricted by these stupid rules.