As COVID-19 cases continued to rise worldwide, technology followed suit with many industries, including healthcare, amplifying their usage. Frontline heroes turned to telehealth technology with increased frequency compared to years prior as more than 46% of patient services were offered virtually. Although treating patients remotely is not new, (the earliest record shows telehealth in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s) privacy and security regulations have evolved to help safeguard patients…

As technology evolves, so do the methods that cybercriminals utilize to commit identity theft and fraud. Last year alone, the Federal Trade Commission processed 1.4M fraud reports amounting to $1.48B in losses. Given that federal law states that financial institutions are held responsible for returning consumers’ money if their account was hacked, it is extremely critical to ensure financial institutions are utilizing an authorized source to provide data in order to assess risk properly while…