Cyber Security

Corrective Action Plan Oversight and Guidance, Department of Health and Social Services Project Brief The theft of a USB drive potentially containing health information regulated by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) was the genesis of a stringent information security Corrective Action Plan required by [...]

Cybersecurity IRS 1075 Policy Assistance – Unemployment Insurance Project Brief When the Internal Revenue Service updated security and audit requirements for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and state and federal tax information, it was Wostmann that helped the State of Alaska meet compliance. Our team worked with the Alaska Department [...]

Cyber Incident Management and Technical Support, Matanuska Susitna Borough Project Brief In 2018, Alaska’s second-largest municipal borough encountered a cyberattack unlike any it had encountered, gaining international news coverage of the ransomware attack. They did not pay the ransom; rather, the borough took the entire system down and rebuilt [...]