Case Study NetSPI Helps HealthEast Counter Security Threats from Inside and Outside Healthcare organizations today face a unique set of security challenges. For one thing, HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, lays out principles and goals for ensuring the privacy of patient-identifiable data. Similarly, PCI, or the Payment Card Industry, has a very detailed Data Se- curity Standard for safeguarding personal information in credit card transac- tions, which are now part of hospital and pharmacy operations everywhere. In addition, healthcare organizations face a cultural hurdle. Historically, they did not put the same emphasis on data security as, say, financial institutions, nor did they have the same budgets or staff dedicated to security as banks or broker

Join for free to read