CASE STUDY CMS Secures Medical Data and Facilitates Partner Compliance Outdated Protection While it has historically maintained an excellent record for data security, CMS’s strategy had been focused on securing networks and devices, rather than sensitive data itself. The agency now recognized the need to implement data-level encryption that would protect health care recipients’ personal information at rest and in motion, regardless of IT platform, point of origin, or destination. The agency’s move toward encryption was given further urgency by the need to maintain compliance with data protection standards mandated by federal laws, including the Federal Information Security Management Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Introduction Find out how The

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