Science predicts diagnosing and billing providers in health care payment systems will cheat. If they think others are cheating, their cheating will go up. With automated systems, people cheat more. This is an inside-the-system problem. It is parasitic in nature, exploiting the trust required to make health care systems function. It doesn’t always meet the …
Why People Sometimes do Stupid Things
Julia Shaw is German/Canadian who received her PhD in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Yea Julia – Go Thunderbirds! Her concentration includes false memories. Dr. Shaw’s research includes how some law enforcement interviewing “tactics” derived from psuedoscience may lead people to recalling crimes that did not occur. She is a contributor to Scientific …
Modern Surveillance
Bruce Schneier is a security savant – at least in my opinion – who puts deep though into security and people. He has been writing a monthly security newsletter 1998, and has maintained a highly informative blog since 1998. He is the author of many books, ranging from cryptography engineering, to exploring trust and cooperation …
“Inside-the-system” billing abuse and predatory fraud not the same problem
Introduction In 2016 Canada spent 10.53 % of GDP on health care benefits and services. The United States spent 17.07% of GDP. Health care spending in Canada and the United States is ten times that of national defense. You might say, it is the largest cash dispensing sector of government. Health care is critical infrastructure …
Tranzform-security
This article posits a dynamic approach to security for critical infrastructure (CI). It adheres to recent science, pressing the edges on how we think about security. Critical infrastructures are ‘complex systems’. The human threats to CI manifest in two broad categories. Exogenous [outside the system] threats include acts of terror and other crime attacks by …
Health Care Fraud: Applying Privacy Legislation to Investigations
The property and casualty insurance industry experiences staged accident injury claims by local gangs. At the zenith, transnational organized crime bilks payment systems at more complex levels. In both cases it can involve physicians in public plans receiving kickbacks for diagnoses leading to the bilking of private insurance plans. In a case study, Ontario privacy …
Uniform Policing is Complex
Uniform public are among the first to arrive at the scene of social disturbances, violent crimes and catastrophic events. They must make time-sensitive judgments on their personal and the public’s safety, sometimes in fraction of a second, without the benefit of conversation. Mood influences perception of events. Like everyone, the uniform police officer’s brain is …
The Illusion of Security Makes as Us Less Secure
The media abounds with stories about the theft and unlawful use of personal identifiers. The question from a security perspective is why this is such a problem? The answer is simple enough. Committing crimes with someone else’s personal identifiers is are easy to do, the rewards are high in relation to the risks, and the …
Police Security Checks: Efficient, Profitable – but does it make us more secure?
If your organization does name checks against police records, be aware of the security trade-offs made. Police forces conduct name checks against police records as a paid public service. Names, dates of birth and sex are compared against local records, the records of other police services where former addresses in these jurisdictions are provided, and …
Driver’s License: A Dependable “ID” for Critical Infrastructure?
Most people are who they say they are. Just ask them and they will tell you. The real question for critical infrastructure is whether demanding a driver’s license to determine if someone is who they say they are makes the organization more safe from terrorists and intelligent criminal predators? The driver’s licence is an identity …
What You Should Know About Means of Identification
Since the mid 1990s much media attention is drawn to “identity theft” and what consumers can do to prevent victimization. It is rare that a clear distinction is drawn between theft (the supply) and unlawful use (the demand) for personal information. A lack of clarity at times creates confusion and underachieving counter strategies. Although the …
Design Thinking: a foundation for Business Innovation
Submitted by PBenedicto on Wed, 02/13/2013 – 22:09 “Innovate or Die” is a popular expression among thought leaders to describe the economic and cultural climate we now do business in. Technology’s impact on people and business continues to evolve the way we communicate, work and live at a disruptive pace. Businesses need to respond by …
Organizational Design from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age
Submitted by rroyer on Sun, 01/13/2013 – 22:59 As the Information Age continues to evolve at a rapid rate, businesses are finding it challenging to compete in their marketplace. New technologies, global markets, demanding customers, disengaged employees and aggressive competitors are placing unprecedented pressure on many companies, who must now rethink the way they do …
Can the Enterprise Strike Back?
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Fri, 10/12/2012 – 16:17 Most people have written-off Research in Motion (RIM) and their Blackberry platform. But then most people take a consumer’s perspective in making that assessment. RIM is making a play to its traditional strength – security. But it is considering security for both enterprises and consumers. Security …
Not all users are bad, but they may not be paying attention
Submitted by Martin Sumner-Smith on Fri, 02/10/2012 – 09:34 Yesterday, in the As the pendulum swings – Users vs. the Enterprise, I discussed how the balance between the needs of staff users and those of the enterprise that employs them has recently swung strongly to favor users as a result of consumerization.My perspective was that …