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  • For Healthcare Providers
  • For Utility Companies
  • For Educational Institutions
  • For Government Agencies

Industry Solutions: For Healthcare Providers

Challenge: The security of confidential, electronic patient records.

Healthcare organizations face unique security compliance challenges, with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule at the top of the list.

HIPAA mandates that covered entities – whether hospitals, health plans, clearinghouses, or care providers – take specific actions to protect electronic patient information. The technological challenge for complying with this rule is significant and requires security systems that exceed standard approaches.

HIPAA security requirements are a set of information security best practices designed to ensure that patient health information is continuously protected by determining risks, implementing the proper controls, and performing ongoing monitoring.

Specific challenges faced by healthcare institutions under the scrutiny of HIPAA include:

• The need to implement hardware, software, and/or procedural mechanisms that record and examine activity in information systems that contain or use electronic protected health information.
  
• The need to implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic-protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic network.
  

QRadar for Healthcare Providers

When deployed in a healthcare setting, QRadar lets organizations:

• Monitor successful and failed access to systems with confidential information
  
• Detect and mitigate internal and external security violations, including vulnerabilities, malicious software, and rogue applications
  
• Deploy a centralized security auditing solution
  
• Protect against malicious software
  
• Demonstrate compliance by monitoring all network and application activity
  
• Deliver HIPAA compliance reporting and auditing
  
• Provide integrity of collected log data
  

QRadar in Action: Real World Deployments

• QRadar is used by many healthcare institutions – including hospitals, outpatient centers, and insurance companies – to implement a HIPAA compliance safety net around networks that maintain sensitive patient healthcare records
  
• QRadar is used by multiple universities with medical programs to monitor and protect electronic records as mandated by HIPAA
  
• QRadar is used by a number of pharmaceutical companies to protect proprietary corporate data
  

Related link:

White Paper: Demonstrating HIPAA Security Rule Compliance