"When Telefonica asked us to recommend a SIM solution, the only option was clearly netForensics, which provides the critical security information we need to make fast decisions about threats."
Javier Garcia,
Director SIM Services,
STE
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance
Protecting Confidential Patient Health Information
The widespread adoption of measures like electronic health records and a national healthcare network for transmitting patient information throughout the healthcare industry can provide countless benefits to healthcare professionals and especially to patients. Yet these technological advances can’t be employed unless Americans are assured that their sensitive health information will be protected. With HIPAA in place, hospitals, clinicians, and other covered entities are now required to protect the security and confidentiality of patient health information and the increasingly connected healthcare networks. Today’s healthcare organizations must abide by HIPAA’s technology risk management and information security standards—or face strict penalties for noncompliance or loss of accreditation. Yet providing extensive documentation on policies and procedures on security-related issues such as risk assessments, incident reports, and logging system activities poses tough information security challenges.
nFX Solutions for HIPAA
The stringent requirements for HIPAA compliance demand that your healthcare organization adopt a security compliance management strategy that employs the right security information and log management solutions. But whether you’re focused on collecting and analyzing log data, enhancing your security practices to protect your applications and databases from insider threats, or need real-time actionable security and HIPAA compliance information throughout your enterprise, netForensics can help you meet all your security compliance management challenges. netForensics security information management (SIM) and log management solutions can empower you to continuously manage risk while leveraging recognized security best practices—with solutions for midsize organizations on limited budgets and larger organizations with distributed environments.
More than Log Management
Log management is important to meeting HIPAA requirements and validating that proper controls are in place and delivering the desired compliance results. Yet when other log management solutions simply collect, store, and report on raw event logs, nFX solutions offer more. With multiple layers of patented correlation technology, you can prevent even aggressive attacks from getting through. The nFX incident-handling capabilities and superior guidance help you promptly mitigate incidents when they do occur.
Maintaining HIPAA Compliance with netForensics
netForensics nFX One is a streamlined, robust security compliance management suite that can help you meet your toughest HIPAA and security intelligence challenges. nFX solutions:
- Decrease the time and resources spent on meeting compliance requirements
- Monitor and measure the effectiveness of HIPAA compliance controls
- Provide third-party auditors with the information they need to evaluate compliance
- Securely capture and store event logs for evidence and enforcement
- Correlate event data from all your devices and applications
- Deliver real-time visibility into threats against compliance-related assets
- Identify hard-to-detect stealth threats that other solutions would miss
- Immediately detect and alert you to control and policy violations
- Provide out-of-the-box and customizable HIPAA reports and rules
- Help gather information for self-assessments
- Are flexible, scalable, and have been proven for over a decade
nFX Cinxi One combines SIM, log management, and HIPAA compliance reporting into an affordable, easy-to-deploy and use appliance.
nFX SIM One and PCI Security Audit Framework offers audit-oriented guidance, reports, and correlation rules that track and monitor HIPAA assets and events across larger, more complex networks.
Learn more about achieving and maintaining HIPAA compliance through proactive threat and risk management:
White Paper: HIPAA, HITECH and the "Meaningful Use" of Log Management & SIEM >
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