Healthcare

Celestix for healthcare

Healthcare organizations operate in a highly regulated industry due to the sensitive nature of the records they maintain. Protected Health Information (PHI) must be handled in a controlled and secure manner, ensuring compliance against HIPAA regulations.

Clearly defined policies exist to ensure that administrative, physical and technical security measures are deployed to enforce the confidentiality and restricted access of protected health information. For example, healthcare organizations are required to identify the personnel who have access to EPHI files and restrict access only to those employees. In addition, access to confidential data must be authorized and so any person who has access to such data must authenticate to the system prior to access.

With the need for inter-agency collaboration it may be necessary to share confidential records with third parties. In all such cases it is essential that there is a trusted relationship between all parties and that records are shared only with the trusted organization and through a secure encrypted method of communication. With so many security considerations, the risk of failing to comply with regulations, and the implications of data loss or misuse, it is no surprise that IT systems in the healthcare market have become complex and disjointed.

But remaining in control of PHI content does not have to be taxing. Celestix offers healthcare providers a comprehensive and tightly integrated suite of network security and access solutions that deliver best-in-class protection for your network assets and diverse stakeholders.

Celestix range of solutions for healthcare includes the WSA appliance running Microsoft Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG). WSA is highly referencable in the healthcare sector and is used by both private and public health organizations globally to provide secure access to confidential data.

IT Security Issues in Healthcare

• Preventing unauthorized exposure of PHI records including patient records
• Data loss through malicious intent or negligence
• Enabling inter-agency collaboration
• Ensuring access is restricted to authorized users only
• Providing policy based access and control
• Meeting compliance standards for data handling
• Providing comprehensive reports to support compliance claims

Celestix solutions

• WSA appliance range runs Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG) to provide secure portal based application access to users based on profile and the level of trust of the endpoint device.
  • Provide access only to the applications relevant for the users role/profile
  • Restrict access to applications that are not applicable to the users profile
  • Provide granular application access policies that can protect data within applications
  • Present customised user experience
  • Increase productivity, allowing users to access content while responding to an emergency
  • Integrate with HOTPin tokenless two factor authentication for a simple to manage, tightly integrated access and authentication solution

• HOTPin is a powerful tokenless two factor authentication solution that is used to deliver a One Time Password (OTP) via a soft token installed on a smart device, USB key or PC, or via SMS in a fully clientless mode.
• Authenticate users to restricted and confidential files, applications and resources
• Prevent identity theft and subsequent data breaches
• Report on authentication attempts and provide evidence to support compliance
• Integrate with any RADIUS based access technology
• Simplified integration agent for Microsoft UAG 2010