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ODESIA Announces Increase in Revenue for Q1/2012

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Mobile VoIP to Flourish: Study Predicts Increase in Mobile Workers

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Genie9 Sees 124 Percent Increase in Affiliate Sales by Leveraging Avangate's Affiliate Network

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VoIP Solutions Increase Rapidly in the UK

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Usablenet HTML5 Mobile Upgrade Sees Increase in Web Use

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Mobile Companies CAPEX to Increase in 2012, Says ABI Research

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Significant Increase in Remote Cloud-based Workers Likely by 2020, According to Intergence

By Kerry Doyle Contributing Writer

Today, mobile devices combined with the cloud can fulfill most computing tasks, and any tradeoffs are outweighed in the minds of the user by the convenience and flexibility provided by the mobile devices. The emergence of more-natural user interface experiences is making mobility practical. As companies seek to bridge the divide between work and outside-the-office environments, and the different levels of technology found there, they need to have clearly articulated technology policies that will support workers while maintaining corporate security. That seems to be only one of the concerns in the latest brief outlining how using cloud services benefits mobile workers and those operating virtual offices.

Dr Steven Turner, vice president of IT optimization consultancy Intergence, predicts that by 2020, around 80 percent of employees may be working outside their organization. Increasingly, knowledge workers today expect instant online access via the types of laptops, smartphones, and tablets they use outside of work. IT’s ultimate goal is to harness the trends behind consumerization that will increase employee engagement and productivity while alleviating their own tech burden. One of the largest challenges for IT teams within a small business is trying to predict what services will be needed in the future if technology circumstances suddenly change.

The problem is that they’re changing all the time. The increased use of smart devices in the workplace poses significant control and support problems for IT. Data security is another issue because corporate information can be compromised through lost or stolen technology.

Mobile devices, especially laptops, also increase the possibility of malware infiltrations and viruses that can easily spread throughout a small company. According to Dr. Turner, “…if

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Report Finds Increase of Almost 100 Percent in Medical Data Breaches

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It’s hard to believe, but a recent report by Redspin, Inc. found an astounding 97-percent increase in protected health information (PHI) data breaches in 2011, across a sample of healthcare organizations in the US, according to a story at healthitnewsdirect.com.

Another report recently revealed that over the last two years, “health care organizations have reported 364 incidents involving the loss or theft of information ranging from names and addresses to Social Security numbers and medical diagnoses on nearly 18 million patients – equivalent to the population of Florida.”

And what’s it costing us? At last count, $6 billion. After surveying 72 healthcare organizations, the Ponemon Institute and ID experts found that, on average, the cost of data breaches to organizations surveyed rose $183,526 to $2,243,700 from 2010, and extrapolating the study to the entire healthcare industry, Ponemon estimates that data breaches could cost the U.S. healthcare industry between $4.2 billion and $8.1 billion a year, or an average of $6.5 billion, according to a story by George V. Hulme at csoonline.com.

Redspin Inc., a provider of penetration testing and IT security audit services, said analyzing 385 breaches (affecting 500 individuals or more) turned up an estimated 19 million people on various health databases, and at least 46 U.S. states had their medical files breached since August 2009 when the interim final breach notification of the HITECH Act was passed.

Redspin found in its survey a 525-percent increase in records breached due to unencrypted device loss, and “an increase of 76 percent of breaches involving a business associate between 2010 and 2011, which made up 59 percent of the total number of breaches.”

The improper security processes, followed by the organizations which had the breaches, contributed to the two largest and three of the top five breaches, according to the story.

When you look at the value of PHI, when sold on the black market (estimated to be around $50) and “its use to commit Medicare fraud, the rate of breaches has increased to 60 percent, occurring with a malicious intent like theft and hacking,” according to Redspin.

But it’s not all about careless employees and files that were not properly encoded. The report also found a surge in the amounts of PHI on unprotected storage devices, and a “lack of security on portable devices (39%), like laptops, mobile phones and tablets, and desktop computers or servers (25%) contributing to breaches,” according to the story.

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