Red Tape

Contributed by Jamal Ibrahim

Protection of healthcare information is a fundamental practice for all healthcare professionals. Previously, when paper charts were widely used, the concern was to protect patient information from theft or displacement. Recently, the goal has changed since health care professionals shifted to the use of digital information to serve and store information.

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Contributed by Rohit Kr. Sharma

The Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2008 (Bill No.96-F of 2008) was passed by the both houses of parliament on December, 2008 and received the accent of the president on 5th February, 2009 and became operational as the Information Technology(Amendment) Act, 2008 (ITAA, 2008) notified with effect from 27/10/2009 and is now become operational. Many significant changes have been introduced in the IT Amendment Act, 2008. Post this there were two more amendments were issues in 2011, a) The Intermediary responsibility and b) Cyber Café Guidelines as Amendments in ITAA (amendments) 2011.

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Contributed by Hal Walter

Contributed by Gunter Ollmann

A consideration often neglected by many organisations when rolling out new servers or developing web-based applications that will be accessible by Internet clients and customers is that of host and URL naming conventions. There are a number of simple steps that can be taken to strengthen the security of an environment or application making it more resilient to several popular attack vectors. By understanding how an attacker can abuse poorly thought out naming conventions, and by instigating a few minor changes, it is possible to positively increase the defence-in-depth stature of an environment.

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Contributed by Lamaris Davis