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Healthcare remains the most targeted sector for ransomware attacks, with 238 ransomware incidents reported to the FBI in 2024 alone. The Change Healthcare attack demonstrated the cascading impact a single breach can have across the entire healthcare ecosystem, affecting payment processing for providers nationwide and ultimately compromising data on an estimated 190 million individuals.

Security organizations are expected to keep pace with a growing set of regulatory and industry requirements as their cloud environments grow. Yet maintaining compliance in modern, fast-moving infrastructure is increasingly difficult. Cloud resources change by the minute, teams adopt new services without centralized oversight, and evidence needed for audits is often scattered across tools and providers.

Today, we’re excited to launch two practical tools to help teams quickly understand their AI maturity, quantify AI risk, and gather the evidence executives will ask for in 2026: an interactive AI Security Maturity Survey (with a personalized score and mapped recommendations) and a companion AI Security Compliance Checklist. Both are aligned to industry standards and built to be immediately useful in discovery, audits, and planning.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) regulation that governs the handling of personal data belonging to individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA). It is considered one of the strictest data privacy regulations globally. ‍ If your organization processes the personal data of EU/EEA residents, complying with the GDPR is mandatory.

Rate this post Last Updated on January 16, 2026 by Narendra Sahoo GDPR and data retention — is an important aspect of organizations operating with large data processing requirements for their customers and third parties. One key area that organizations face challenges is how their data storage and handling should apply to customers: specifically, how long you’re allowed to store customer data, and why this is one of the areas where organizations get it wrong most often.

The regulatory and compliance landscape evolved rapidly in 2025, with changes key changes affecting cybersecurity, privacy, and protective security. This review breaks down key compliance changes, offering insights into new requirements and how to ensure compliance in 2026.

Earlier, the anatomy of a HIPAA breach felt tangible. The threat landscape was shaped by risks you could point to, such as physical theft, phishing, or simple human error. Now, some of the biggest risks live in your website and run quietly in the background. Third-party scripts, tracking pixels, and analytics tags can collect or transmit PHI to external parties while looking like routine marketing infrastructure.

When you think about an IRS publication, you’re probably thinking about the complex forms you need to fill out, usually relating to taxes. That’s not all the IRS publishes, though, and one of the more important documents they maintain is called Publication 1075. When it comes to sensitive information for everyday Americans and private sector businesses, there’s very little more important and more sensitive than tax information.

Due to growing awareness of data privacy risks, organizations face mounting pressure from regulators to safeguard sensitive personal information. This can be particularly challenging for US companies, which must adhere to both domestic regulations, such as the CCPA and HIPAA, as well as international frameworks in their target global markets.