Safeguard patient healthcare data
and maintain HIPAA compliance.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires any healthcare organization that deals with protected health information, such as hospitals, medical offices, labs, insurance providers, pharmacies and their business associates, to protect sensitive patient healthcare information (PHI) from being compromised.
The consequences of failing to comply with HIPAA requirements can be severe, with up to $1.5 million in penalties levied in just one year. Some violations can even incur criminal charges. The reason for such stiff penalties is because a patient’s healthcare records contain far more information about an individual than mere financial records hold, facilitating criminal activities such as opening credit cards, filing fraudulent insurance claims or buying prescription drugs and opioids.
To help your organization meet the HIPAA requirements for the privacy and security of PHI, our security solutions detect and prevent data breaches and provide continuous real-time monitoring capabilities, identifying any vulnerabilities or errors that might expose PHI. Coupled with the most effective ways to respond when attacks do occur.
HIPAA requirements
HIPAA requirements involve a set of rules: HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule, HIPAA Omnibus Rule and the HIPAA Enforcement Rule. To meet these requirements, companies must:
directed toward the theft of PHI
patches and on a compliant configuration
How we can help
Hackers prize patient healthcare information far more than any other, making those in possession of PHI prime targets for cyberattacks. And the rapid growth of telehealth, online billing and patient portals provides cybercriminals with added opportunities for cyberattacks on the healthcare industry. Additionally, most healthcare companies have employees in multiple hospitals, clinics and offices, or working remotely, which vastly expands the opportunities for a security breach, and a HIPAA penalty.
HIFENCE can help your organization mitigate dangers to your network, and keep you HIPAA compliant. We’ll first assess your system’s security profile as it relates to the HIPAA requirements, and then make recommendations for shoring up your system’s vulnerabilities and possible gaps. Then, to keep your system and the patient data it holds safe from cyber threats, we will provide cybersecurity solutions and technical controls, including 24/7 monitoring, threat detection and response, vulnerability and penetration testing, among other advanced safeguards. So no matter how complex or challenging HIPAA requirements are, you’ll be in full compliance with every one of them.
Protect against cybertheft of PHI
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
HIFENCE MDR delivers full incident management for real-time monitoring and it both identifies security breaches or deviation from HIPAA security best practices, and conducts forensics so your response will be rapid and highly effective.
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Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Healthcare providers, more than with most industries, have staff using devices as an integral part of their service delivery. Protecting endpoints where healthcare PHI is held for data exfiltration is especially critical. HIFENCE EDR includes an operation baseline to ensure that our best practices are implemented.
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Firewall is your healthcare company’s first line of defense, which makes our managed firewall services especially important to companies entrusted with PHI. We perform security hardening, and feed our own custom IoCs, to further ensure HIPAA and other best practices are followed.
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Identify and correct security risks and vulnerabilities
Security Architecture Services
To ensure that a network’s confidentiality, continuity and integrity are protected and fully HIPAA compliant, we help define a holistic view of the company’s security strategy.
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Vulnerability Management
PCI DSS requires a company to maintain a vulnerability management program and to monitor and test networks regularly. Our vulnerability scans will provide your company with the information needed to keep your systems fully patched and secure. We also deliver compliance scanning to further ensure PCI DSS compliance.
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HIFENCE penetration testing team acts like actual hackers seeking PHI, enabling us to find where a system and security controls can be breached.
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Keep your security patches current and your configuration compliant
Vulnerability Management
Another important role of our Vulnerability Management service is to ensure that all security patches are installed and on the latest version, pursuant to HIPAA requirements.
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Prevent PHI disclosure by monitoring user behavior
Managed SIEM
Because SIEM is effective in monitoring unauthorized, unexpected communication and pinpointing a security searchlight precisely on the data needed for you can make the fastest, smartest decisions, it can keep malicious players from entering the system to steal PHI and other data.
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Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Our EDR services are also critical in monitoring the user behavior at endpoints where PHI are especially vulnerable to data exfiltration.
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Schedule your FREE Consultation
A HIFENCE expert will conduct a quick overview of your network’s cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance posture and present actionable roadmaps for achieving the highest level of PHI protection.