Breaches
The most common type of covered entity that has had a breach is the healthcare providers. More than half of the covered entity shows that healthcare providers has had the highest number of breaches with not less than five hundred affected individuals. The data shows that many healthcare providers do not adhere to the set rules and they end up doing things contrary to the agreement of their contract. California has had the highest number of breaches with the least affected persons as five hundred and the highest being seventy thousand affected individuals.
The most common type of breach is through hacking and information technology incidents. The healthcare provider data is not adequately secured, and therefore, it is make it easier for hackers and information technology experts to interfere with data. The healthcare provider data is very essential as it concerns the health of the patients, and any interference may grossly affect the health of the concerned persons. After viewing the data, the most crucial topics that employees should be trained or educated on is on the ways of securing data by using complex passwords that cannot be easily guessed by the hackers. Hackers know the types of words or figures that people like to use as passwords and that why they hack so easil. Therefore, employees should be encouraged to use complex passwords but those that they can remember. The employees need to be taught on the importance of privacy by using smart emailing. They should be encouraged not to log in to any website they feel like and should not use the same type of password in different services. the data and security programs should be updated frequently to ensure that it is not hacked as the hackers mostly depend on outdated data. The employees should avoid using public wi-fi while opening the company’s website.