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

Compliance Multi-Tasking -- Today's Security Priority

Securecomputing

Driven by increasing regulatory scrutiny and the need to protect key corporate assets, concerns about compliance and data leakage have risen to the top of the priority list for today’s corporate executives. Federal US legislation such as HIPAA and GLBA, as well as state laws such as California’s SB-1386, clearly define acceptable practices with regards to digital information security. In addition, corporate governance rules have mandated strict policies to deal with authorized and unauthorized access, and the use of sensitive corporate information by employees, partners, and auditors.

Compliance isn’t a project that takes a few employees a couple of months to complete. Compliance is a new corporate way of life requiring companies to maintain complete control over sensitive content throughout their organization and throughout its lifecycle. This involves instituting new policies, procedures and processes, including:

Creating and maintaining policies that clearly define the company’s approach to user authentication, access, and rights
Mapping policies to specific business processes and types of content
Protecting networks and systems against inbound threats and attacks
Monitoring and detecting violations to those policies
Enforcing policies using automated tools
Protecting sensitive content, including encryption of protected data
Reporting and forensics in order to demonstrate compliance to third-party auditors and executives

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