L.A. County Strengthens Data Security Requirements in Response to Recent Medical Data Breach
On Tuesday, Los Angeles County supervisors voted to extend a policy that workers' laptops be encrypted to include all county department computer workstation hard drives. The move is in response to February data breach at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions' Torrance office, involving the personal information of more than 342,000 patients.
- "County Moves To Require Computer Encryption After Medical Data Breach" (Sewell, "L.A. Now," Los Angeles Times, 5/27).