HIPAA compliance security software across all endpoints helps organizations achieve compliance with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and security of data handled across devices. But when employees work remotely and devices are out-of-sight, safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI) becomes an unprecedented challenge for organizations impacted by HIPAA.
HIPAA compliance security software across all endpoints helps organizations achieve compliance with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and security of data handled across devices. But when employees work remotely and devices are out-of-sight, safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI) becomes an unprecedented challenge for organizations impacted by HIPAA.
In 2013, because of three separate HIPAA violations involving an Advocate for Health Care subsidiary, more than 4 million patients’ data were affected. These breaches had to do with the lack of protection on the endpoint devices containing patients’ health information, devices owned by AHC, and their business associate. An example of HIPAA compliance software is TypingDNA’s ActiveLock. With our solution, AHC’s and their business associate’s devices would have been protected by an “invisible” layer of continuous authentication, based on how employees typed on their keyboards. In the example mentioned above, ActiveLock Continuous Endpoint Authentication would have locked out any malicious attackers or thieves — as soon as an unauthorized typing pattern was detected. See how ActiveLock works.
So regardless if employees decide to intentionally or unintentionally share a work device, or if someone tries to use one of the company’s endpoints without your knowledge or approval — the result is the same: ActiveLock spots the intruder based on their typing pattern and takes instant action to lock the endpoint and trigger a silent alert to your IT teams — effectively reducing the risk of unauthorized access to ePHI information, and ultimately keeping you HIPAA compliant.
Learn more on how to stay HIPAA compliant when employees work remotely.
