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Leading healthcare compliance analytics company and top incident response management company partner to provide technology for security and privacy incident detection and risk assessment, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and U.S. state breach notification requirements.

BALTIMORE, MD — January 7, 2019 — Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient privacy for the nation's leading health systems announces a strategic partnership with RADAR,the award-winning provider of incident response management software, to help healthcare organizations reduce the risks associated with unauthorized disclosures of protected health information.

When evaluating different solutions for incident response management, many factors come into play. Understandably, budget tops the list, closely followed by security, functionality, ease of use, and more. Underlying many of these concerns is the delivery method—should you choose software-as-a-service (SaaS) or an on-premise solution?

We live in a world of measurements, from batting averages to number of steps walked to miles per gallon. Measuring our performance against certain standards or that of others—in other words, benchmarking—gives us a line in the sand from which we determine how and where to improve. This is especially important in the world of privacy, where it can be hard to gauge the effectiveness of programs and initiatives. And without the numbers to back you up, getting sufficient organizational priority and budget for your privacy program is difficult.  

WASHINGTON, DC and PORTLAND, OR. — December 6, 2018 — Dentons, the world's largest law firm, and RADAR,a leading provider of incident response management software, announce a strategic alliance to help clients reduce the risks and costs of compliance with data breach laws.

Data privacy and security incidents occur all the time; the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report covers a mind-boggling 53,000-plus incidents. Incidents come in all shapes and sizes—electronic, paper, even verbal or visual. They can be as simple as an improperly mailed billing statement or as complex as a highly coordinated cyber-attack on millions of consumers’ financial records. Every single one of these incidents must be risk assessed to determine if they are breaches requiring notification. 

PORTLAND, Ore., November 8, 2018 –RADAR, Inc., the award-winning incident response management and decision-support SaaS solution provider, announced today it has received a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners ("Vista"), a leading investment firm focused on software, data, and technology-enabled businesses that are reinventing industries and catalyzing change. With Vista’s partnership, RADAR intends to expand operations and accelerate innovation in delivering solutions that help simplify compliance with global privacy obligations.

This article is part of an ongoing series on privacy program metrics and benchmarking for incident response management, brought to you by RADAR, Inc., a provider of purpose-built decision-support software designed to guide users through a consistent, defensible process for incident management and risk assessment. Find earlier installments of this series here.

The landscape of global data breach laws has been marked by continuous change in recent years. One of the most significant this year was the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Described by ICO Commissioner Elizabeth Denham as “the biggest change to data protection law in a generation,” the GDPR has certainly made an impact.

The last year in the realm of privacy has been one of tremendous growth.

Next week, 1,600+ privacy professionals are heading to Austin for the annual IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. conference. The educational opportunity and discussions happening at this conference every year surfaces new ideas, best practices, and top challenges for the privacy profession. 

This article is part of an ongoing series on privacy program metrics and benchmarking for incident response management, brought to you by Radar Inc., a provider of purpose-built decision-support software designed to guide users through a consistent, defensible process for incident management and risk assessment. Find earlier installments of this series here.

This article by RADAR CEO Mahmood Sher-Jan originally appeared on the Compliance and Ethics blog. Click here to view it in its original format.

In July Gartner published its new Hype Cycle for Privacy, which provides a snapshot of various technology capabilities and categories, their relative market trajectory over time, and forecasts for future adoption. A new category that emerged in the 2018 report is Data Breach Response, whose debut underscores the emergence of a broader awareness of this critical capability for enterprises that collect and process personal data.

RADAR is the trusted incident response solution used by Fortune 500 and multinational enterprises subject to data privacy regulations to simplify compliance with U.S. and international data breach laws, including the EU GDPR.

Unless you’re storing grain on a farm, I think we can all agree that silos are bad, and that collaborative efforts are good. So why do silos continue to plague the business world?