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Key Compliance Considerations Related to Organizational Furloughs, Layoffs, and Other Workforce Reductions (PDF)

24 pages. "[The authors] explore the technical, legal, and regulatory requirements underlying organizational workforce change management initiatives ... [and] evaluate the effects of organizational change management in the context of health and welfare plan administration ... [They] propose and evaluate certain holistic organizational change management strategies, defining and evaluating various practical alternatives and supplemental activities that can be undertaken to mitigate employee relations issues and diminish an organization's overall culture and functional workplace environment."

Understanding Mitigation of Cybercrime Through Adherence to HIPAA Regulatory Requirements and Organizational Best Practices (PDF)

18 pages. "[A] HIPAA-centric defensive strategy provides an employer plan sponsor with the means to identify, segregate, and potentially exterminate ransomware infiltration prior to the malware's proliferation with a user's network ... In this way, while a single device may become corrupted, savvy device operators are able to reduce the potential for an attack to infect the user's entire network."