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TraceSecurity and PHNS Partner to Expanding Compliance Services to Healthcare Organizations

(Nov 17, 2007)-- TraceSecurity, provider of on-demand security compliance solutions, announced its partnership with PHNS, making its web-based Compliance Manager available to hundreds of healthcare organizations across the country. PHNS will also deploy TraceSecurity Compliance Manager within its own organization, allowing it to simplify security compliance by integrating and automating regulatory compliance audits, board-level reporting, policy management, vulnerability assessment and employee education and testing. By utilizing on-demand web-based SaaS technology, TraceSecurity and PHNS will offer healthcare organizations turnkey implementation and operation.

"By combining PHNS' services with TraceSecurity Compliance Manager, healthcare organizations will not only have the ability to establish a baseline summary through initial regulatory compliance assessments; but will also be able to affordably implement ongoing assessments, audits, compliance updates and reporting, allowing these organizations to confidently address compliance standards," stated Dariel LeBoeuf, Senior Vice President of Channels and Business Development at TraceSecurity. "We are extremely pleased to be able to partner with PHNS. The importance of delivering reliable and verifiable ongoing compliance services to the healthcare industry is clear. This partnership allows those in the healthcare field to focus on patients and minimize the cost for deployment, as well as the time needed to educate staff and maintain security and compliance policies and standards."

Headquartered in Dallas, PHNS has seen its hospital partners experience over $60 million in savings through use of their strategic solutions that include information technology, health information management, and patient accounting and business office services. This partnership with TraceSecurity will enable healthcare organizations utilizing this combination of services to operate even more efficiently, while diminishing regulatory compliance risks and liabilities, and further increasing their overall savings.

TraceSecurity's Compliance Manager includes a number of key features such as:

-- Constantly updated regulatory knowledgebase -- Quick, intuitive web-based user interface with immediate access anytime, anywhere -- Employment of predefined and customizable assessment templates -- Automated policy compliance -- Customizable executive dashboard for tracking compliance indicators, such as regulatory statistics, policy acceptance and vulnerability status -- Easy to access reports, and multiple reporting templates with the ability to export reports to multiple formats, including Microsoft PowerPoint -- Vulnerability assessment and remediation -- Scalable architecture -- Comprehensive Security Compliance Management

"PHNS has evaluated many solutions in this emerging space and has found that TraceSecurity's unique offering allows us to perform automated vulnerability assessment, compliance gap analysis and reporting, as well as policy management and awareness training all with one solution and one partner. Their service is outstanding," said Brian Perry, PHNS' Director of Information Security.

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