Security

Seeking ideas about cybersecurity, human factors, HIPAA, risk management and more.

EHR vendor is making its multi-tenant network faster and better able to keep pace with innovations and emerging technologies. 

Imprivata, the Lexington, Massachusetts-based developer of health IT security tools, has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Thoma Bravo, a San Francisco private equity firm. The deal is valued at approximately $544 million.

Its advice includes ways to prevent and contain malware threats; OCR officials stress that these viruses are considered security incidents under HIPAA.

Still in development, the Trojan virus is an aggressive combination of two malware strains that corrupts a Windows Master Boot Record.

Amid the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape peppered with hackers, ransomware, nation-states gunning for coveted PHI, hospitals must safeguard against attempts to penetrate their networks. Here's a roundup of the top IDS and IPS tools for doing that.

The challenge for IT professionals is implementation because a product isn’t truly HIPAA-compliant until the system is in place.

Align your architecture and deployment to work within your budget while keeping in mind your annual costs of maintaining the system.

A threat that could compromise a device automatically signals Cisco’s Identity Services Engine and Cisco TrustSec to quarantine and prevent the attack.

Symantec Data Center Security uses a combination of host-based intrusion detection (HIDS), intrusion prevention (HIPS) and least privilege access control.