HEALTHCARE

HIPAA mandates that all healthcare organizations that collect, transfer or access patient information must be able to verify security, confidentiality and privacy for that information. These requirements extend across networks, systems and applications at hospitals, research institutions, insurance providers, federal agencies and private practices. The task is immense, and the penalties for any breach in compliance are severe.

HIPAA and similar electronic patient healthcare information (ePHI) standards are very specific about the expected outcome, but implementation strategy is left to individual organizations. At the same time, rising costs and financial performance pressures place healthcare organizations in a difficult situation. Not only do they require an effective network management and information protection solution that deploys quickly, is easy to manage and proves compliance, but they also seek the best value for each dollar invested.

Lancope's StealthWatch™ network security and monitoring system is a key part of the HIPAA compliance prescription. With StealthWatch, organizations can recognize any unexpected network activity, which helps IT staff adapt rapidly to changing network usage demands. In addition, StealthWatch immediately and automatically detects and stops malicious and unauthorized network activity, including worms, "zero-day" attacks, denial of service (DoS) attacks and internal misuse.

StealthWatch utilizes Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and Response technology to protect against critical threats to network and data integrity that other technologies miss. As a network behavior-based system, StealthWatch requires less configuration and administration than traditional technologies that rely on databases of signatures to be effective.

StealthWatch delivers continuous network awareness to cost-effectively address multiple requirements of HIPAA compliance, including the ability to:

  • Detect, mitigate and resolve internal and external threats, such as stealthy scans, new worms and Trojans that bypass firewalls and signature-based security systems
  • Continuous monitoring of enterprise network activity without installing host-based agents
  • Easy-to-analyze real-time tracking and historical auditing of access to ePHI servers from across a healthcare organization's network
  • Immediate alerts based on unexpected network usage patterns and security policy violations, such attempted access to ePHI servers from an unauthorized network zone
  • Automated discovery and profiling of new or unauthorized network devices

FEATURED CUSTOMERS

KEY BENEFITS

  • Streamline network operations and security into one process
  • Reduce time and resources allocated to network optimization and network security
  • Eliminate cost and complexity associated with non-integrated point solutions