We recently talked with a customer in the healthcare industry who was concerned about protecting their patient records. While many of us have become quite familiar with HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, many of us are still learning how to protect those records. And with the flood of devices, widespread access to information, and distributed locations, protecting that data is a real challenge.
When we demonstrated our new discovery capability in our TrueDLP 7.0 data loss prevention solution, a few weeks ago, our client found more than 22 million sensitive patient records were floating around on a variety of PC clients, servers and other devices in various formats and with varying degrees of detail! They had no idea. With discovery, data can be located and identified in data centers and throughout the network. A terabyte of data a day can be scanned from fileservers, SharePoint servers, email servers, web servers, FTP servers and source code repositories, and discovery scans can be scheduled and reported on regularly.
For more information on this and the other new features in Code Green Networks TrueDLP 7.0 visit: www.codegreennetworks.com/truedlp
On February 11th CXO Media will host the CSO Executive Seminar on Data Protection and Encryption at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, VA. These events are intended to help you learn the strategies and tactics for taking a comprehensive approach to data loss prevention and better protecting your corporate data.
This year Code Green Networks and Blue Coat will be presenting on the topic of “Managing DLP Before it’s a Crisis”. If you want more information regarding this session or the event, send an email to info@codegreennetworks.com. We hope to see you there.
There was a great article earlier this month, written by Elisabeth Horwitt, posted on searchhealthit.techtarget.com titled “Using Data Loss Prevention Software to Comply with new HIPAA Policies“. The piece highlighted one organization, Cascade Healthcare Community (CHC), and how it was using DLP as a means of monitoring and enforcing security policies organization wide.
It was interesting that the piece quoted the Ponemon Institute LLC security survey in which 540 healthcare IT practitioners from organizations with an average of 1,000 employees, 61% of respondents believe their employers lack the resources to meet the new HITECH privacy and data security requirements.
However, with the Feb. 17th deadline for the HITECH Act’s new provisions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Code Green Networks is seeing more and more healthcare organizations taking action to secure their patients’ sensitive information. We will continue to watch to see how this one develops.