Security Management Software for Healthcare & NHS Organizations

Security management software protects confidential medical records - specifically patient health information – from a multitude of data security challenges facing healthcare providers and insurance companies, including data leakage and the proliferation of malware and spyware. Protecting this data and maintaining endpoint security through the remediation of vulnerabilities and configuration issues is becoming more complex as healthcare workers are no longer confined to a single workstation. As workers are becoming more mobile with the need to quickly share and disseminate data, laptops and PCs are becoming more personal, loaded with non-business applications, and ultimately less secure.

Endpoints which are not configured properly and are not up-to-date with the latest patches, and unmanaged removable media and applications can easily open the floodgates for data to escape into the wrong hands, whether intentionally or accidentally. For example, in the UK, confidential medical records were on a USB memory stick, which was then repackaged and sold as new to a real estate agent. Mis-configured machines can just as easily allow the propagation of spyware and keyloggers, which compromise the integrity and confidentiality of patient information.

Security Management Software to Help Comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

HIPAA was established in 1996 to protect medical records by establishing transaction standards for the exchange of health information, security standards and privacy standards for the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

To achieve compliance with HIPAA requirements, organizations must establish and enforce policies that safeguard the integrity and availability of confidential electronic information.

Lumension security management software helps healthcare organizations comply with HIPAA security standards by implementing administrative, physical and technical safeguards around the remediation of vulnerabilities, and application and removable device use on endpoints.

Lumension Security Management Software Helps Healthcare & NHS Organizations Protect Patient Records

Lumension security management software ensures electronic protected health information (ePHI) privacy by providing the necessary controls to manage the data flowing to and from network endpoints and by rapidly securing endpoint configurations and patching and remediating software vulnerabilities that could leave IT assets and sensitive data exposed. These solutions include:

• PatchLink Update™ - Proactive management of threats through automated collection, analysis, and delivery of patches (all major operating systems and applications) across heterogeneous networks.
   
• PatchLink Scan™ - Complete network-based scanning solution enables assessment and analysis of threats impacting all network devices.
   
• PatchLink Security Configuration Management™ - Out-of-the-box regulatory and standards-based assessment to ensure endpoints are properly configured.
   
• PatchLink Developers Kit™ - Create custom remediation packages to address configuration issues, remove unauthorized files and applications, address Zero-day threats, patch custom software and more.
   
• PatchLink Enterprise Reporting™ - Robust data warehouse that enables easy creation and sharing of reports on all aspects of your remediation efforts in support of policy compliance.
   
• Sanctuary® Application Control - Policy-based enforcement of application use to secure your endpoints from malware, spyware and unwanted or unlicensed software.
   
• Sanctuary® Device Control - Policy-based enforcement of removable device use to control the flow of inbound and outbound data from your endpoints.

Lumension Security Management Software Helps Healthcare and NHS Organizations to:

• Comply with HIPAA requirements for safeguarding the integrity and availability of ePHI
  • Reduce the risk of ePHI from being improperly disclosed
  • Prove compliance with HIPAA by providing a detailed audit trail of all device and application execution attempts, by tracking data that is copied to and from removable devices and by controlling what data is allowed to be copied to a device at the file level
  • Patch and remediate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited to access ePHI
  • Control and monitor the flow of inbound and outbound ePHI with removable media and devices
  • Identify organizational security holes in the protection of ePHI through comprehensive auditing capabilities
     
• Comply with NHS directive for data-in-transit
  • Control and monitor the flow of inbound and outbound data from removable media
     
• Prevent malware execution originating at an endpoint
  • Protect against network security breaches where ePHI could be exposed to fraud
  • Enable the transmission, integrity, confidentiality and retention of ePHI without disruption, corruption or loss
     
• Improve IT system performance
  • Prevent unwanted applications and devices from burdening network bandwidth
  • Enable faster computing resources on network, laptops and PCs
  • Maintain PCs’ performance as new with configurations remaining stable
     
• Reduce endpoint security TCO
  • Minimize security or HIPAA compliance crisis response
  • Remediate vulnerabilties more quickly and with fewer required resources
     
• Improve end user productivity
  • Block unwanted, non-business applications
  • Enforce policy to ensure endpoints run as expected
     
• Enforce software license compliance within the organization