White Papers for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Preventing Data Leakage and Malicious Code Intrusion

Guardian Edge

Today there are a myriad of options for the transport and distribution of data and the portability of data is no longer dependent upon Internet connectivity. Never before has such convenience been available. Removable storage, mobile devices and wireless access technologies boost employee productivity by opening up easy and fast methods for capturing and transferring data from one place to another. Members of organizations take advantage of USB, FireWire, CD/DVD, WiFi, and Bluetooth technologies every day to work remotely and to share data with external partners.
While convenient and productivity-enhancing, these data transfers pathways also represent enormous security risks. According to Vista research, 70% of IT security breaches occur internal to the organization. Organizations use firewalls and other security schemes to protect their sensitive data; however, removable, mobile and wireless pathways are often forgotten open doors to precious internal data and systems.

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