HIPAA Compliance

This document details the mandated and proposed rules generally referred to as the "HIPAA requirements" and how they affect healthcare organizations and their business partners transmit medical information electronically.

Healthcare organizations are being targeted by financially motivated attackers that steal and sell valuable data, including identities and computing resources. This white paper defines the new threat, and outlines three important steps that providers can take to protect their critical systems.

The data security challenges in the healthcare industry have never been as challenging as they are today. Not only must healthcare providers comply with HIPAA regulations concerning patient privacy and electronic data security, they must also guard against identity theft as well more complex scenarios of insurance data theft, medical identity theft and the adulteration of health records.

Find out more about how LogRhythm can help organizations fulfill The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements in documentation and implementation of controls for IT systems that support operations and assets.

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Is your organization adequately meeting the rules and regulations set forth in the Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)? Learn how LogRhythm’s comprehensive log management and analysis solution can help your organization meet or exceed HIPAA regulatory requirements.

This whitepaper highlights some of the key areas in which LogRhythm, the leader in Log and Security Event Management Solutions, can help companies adequately meet the PCI Data Security Standards. The whitepaper also details the compliance requirements along with ways in which LogRhythm meets and exceeds those regulations.

Do you need to simplify your financial reporting process to ensure that you are meeting the Sarbanes Oxley requirements? Read this whitepaper to learn more…

LogRhythm, the leader in Log and Security Event Management Solutions, has prepared a "Quick Read" whitepaper to help you understand what's required to ensure compliance with: CIP- 003-1 – Cyber Security – Security Management controls; CIP- 005-1 – Cyber Security – Electronic Security Perimeter(s); CIP- 006-1 – Cyber Security – Physical Security of Critical Cyber Assets; CIP -007-1 – Cyber Security – Systems Security Management; CIP -008-1 – Cyber Security – Incident Reporting and Response PlanningThe whitepaper also contains a compliance reference chart with the specific CIP requirements matched with recommended steps to ensure compliance.

Get the facts you need to know about how the collection, management and analysis of log data are integral to meeting many GCSx requirements. Read this whitepaper to learn more…

IBM conducted an in-depth assessment to identify vulnerabilities in New Hanover Health Network's information security practices, with emphasis on their auditing activity and capabilities. This white paper will explain how IBM helped them implement a series of best practices, thereby improving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their information systems.

Throughout the industrialized world, healthcare systems are in crisis. Aging populations and skyrocketing costs are putting unprecedented financial and organizational pressure on healthcare providers and payers. The result is often a decreasing level of care. In response, fundamental changes are taking place. Patient-centric systems are evolving in which the patient's well-being and the responsibility for good health are defining treatment and operational policies.

The healthcare industry has benefited from the breakneck pace of digitization - spanning everything from payments to patient records to X-ray film - but it has also been increasingly exposed to greater risk. Efforts to increase healthcare provider productivity via increased digitization and system interconnectivity have to be counterbalanced against the growing concerns for patient privacy and a backdrop of increasing liability.

The HSC network services group supports more than 2000 desktops, servers and backend systems such as e-mail, file, networking, application and storage services for general administration, dental and medical schools. HSC wanted to manage and reduce HIPAA compliance costs and processes associated with protecting PHI data within its storage infrastructure – a legacy SAN environment with evolving applications.

Learn how Secure Configuration Manager can help with compliance requirements in the IT controls areas of entitlement reporting & segregation of duties. Discover how to make your compliance program more sustainable & repeatable, while gaining visibility into sources of vulnerability & risk exposure.

Learn how to meet regulatory requirements for system change and user activity monitoring with NetIQ Change Guardian for Windows, without the need for performance-hindering native auditing.

Discover how NetIQ Security Manager can help your organization comply with the log collection and analysis requirements within recent regulations and standards.

Do you need to implement corporate policies regarding security and confidential health information? Learn: How to use IT documentation to prepare for and pass Security audits; What IT data is critical for Security Standards; What is the difference between Security and IT Audits. You can implement a sustainable HIPAA Security Standard – Read this paper to learn more.

This white paper presents a solution framework for Life Science Organizations that want to implement enterprise digital trust management to protect their electronic value chain.

Get this free white paper to read why mass casualty and other public health emergencies create a demand for information within hospitals, between hospitals, between hospitals and local incident command centers, and between local, statewide and multi-state incident command centers and agencies.

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. This paper discusses multiple policies, procedures and processes corporations must consider to remain secure and compliant.

As corporate security policies and compliance regulations are created to address the increasingly dangerous post 9/11 environment, security risk management is becoming an increasingly important tool in corporate governance. Learn more in this white paper by RiskWatch.

In lieu of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other regulations, one of the main concerns in the IT industry today is security. In this white paper, we take a deeper look at the security concerns, the available solutions, their drawbacks, and a new complementary way of addressing today's security issues.

A New York based psychiatric hospital maintains a record system to manage basic data entry and patient information. However, the organization did not have a central source for patient records, accompanying doctors’ notes, x-rays or other relevant information.  Download this case study and learn how they overcame this challenge.

With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  The solution is automated security assessment products that leverage stateful processing to comprehensively examine web applications and reveal vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks.  Find out how Cenzic's ClickToSecure solution can help you secure your applications.