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Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Risk Management and Compliance: Healthcare Best Practices Guide

Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...

Mitigating Insider Threats With Internal Monitoring

Given the threat and compliance environments, Internal Segmentation (also known as internal firewalling) is a growing trend that requires organizations to improve their internal monitoring of data. These solutions control data within the corporate network and actively enforce data access policies for internal staff...

Segmenting Cardholder Data to Meet PCI Requirements

Segmenting in-scope PCI resources from an organization's IT infrastructure using traditional methods is quite challenging. Many have struggled with firewalls as a means of internal segmentation by inserting them in front of in-scope systems. While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter,...

Medical Image Archiving - Reducing the Cost and Complexity

In the healthcare industry, medical image archives are growing exponentially. More studies, larger studies, longer retention, and new modalities are all driving the dramatic increase in storage needs. Facing this growth, healthcare information technology (IT) departments are seeking a way to reduce image archiving...

Cyber 2020: Asserting Global Leadership in the Cyber Domain

How should the United States respond as global competitors expand their influence over the Internet and build cyber capabilities? An analysis of the Internet in 2020 shows that the United States must develop a strategy that focuses on more than technology to retain its cyberpower status. Read this white paper and...

Critical Data Management Issues in the Health Care Industry

Today, healthcare organizations and their partners outside of healthcare need to tightly control access to data. Why? Tougher government requirements Tougher patient data management regulations The risk of data breaches The increase in legal actions This Quest Software white paper explains the critical...

Five Key Considerations for Enabling Privacy in Health Information Exchanges

The emergence of health information exchanges is widely expected to provide a range of important benefits for patients, physicians, and the healthcare industry as a whole. In an effort to foster the development of these exchanges and facilitate a move to electronic health records, the U.S. government passed the Health...

Ensuring Security, Privacy and Compliance While Creating Value with Healthcare IT: A Step by Step Guide to Deploying Risk Management Programs

Economic necessity and global competitiveness are among the factors driving U.S. healthcare organizations to adopt more value-oriented, performance-driven approaches to delivering patient care. Information Technology (IT) can play a key role in this transition provided that it is viewed as a means to create value...

Create Your Natural Advantage - Integrating Desktop Power Savings with Patch Management

Organizations stand to save themselves a significant amount of money by managing the power consumption of their IT systems. But if they aren't careful, they could potentially save their way right into a security and operational nightmare. When power management is not centralized nor built into your overall IT...

Medical Records on the Run: Protecting Healthcare Information Through Device Control and Data Encryption

As the electronic medical records revolution takes hold of the healthcare industry, the benefits and drawbacks of digitized health documentation are being revealed. On one hand, the convenience of putting this data online enables healthcare professionals to provide more collaborative and knowledgeable care by...

Six Critical Elements to Achieving Economies in Healthcare IT Security and Compliance

Healthcare organizations and their business partners are facing compliance trauma from every aspect of the business. Security and privacy regulations have been in place since 1996 within the United States with HIPAA, but for the first decade of its existence HIPAA had no teeth. Today, healthcare organizations face...

Evaluating HITECH's Impact on Healthcare Privacy & Security

Today's evolving threat landscape has made IT security a top priority for healthcare organizations. Top medical centers targeted by virus and advanced threats need a proactive approach to endpoint security. The HITECH Act further prioritizes privacy and security - with significant potential monetary benefit. Find...

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Healthcare IT Security

Maintaining the security of patient data is a complex proposition that affects every employee of a healthcare facility, every area of its IT system, and all vendors, partners, and insurers that work with the healthcare provider. While many facilities are working toward achieving full compliance with HIPAA,...

Data Protection for the Healthcare Industry

From medical records to insurance forms to prescription services, the healthcare business is becoming a networked environment that allows patient information to be shared and managed by a variety of resources and from a number of endpoints, each with their own level of security for protecting that information. Not...