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SmartCipher(TM) Product Suite Provides Policy-Based Data Security
Covertix’ SmartCipher(TM) solution provides policy-based data-centric security, automatically applying encryption to documents that meet the criteria defined by the company’s administrators in the policy.
This article at Document Imaging Report provides more detail on the SmartCipher(TM) product suite: Covertix Dynamic Context Classification Engine Delivers On-the-fly Protection.
Accuimage, LLC has partnered with Covertix to provide our customers with this advanced form of document protection. Contact us today to learn more about how SmartCipher(TM) fits with your company’s security strategies.
Document Encryption Secures HIPAA Data - Even On Portable Media
We see more businesses using portable storage media such as flash drives, DVDs, and USB hard drives. In addition, nearly every employee has their own personal account with free cloud storage services such as DropBox, Google Drive, and other such services. All it takes is for one lost or stolen flash drive or a compromised cloud storage account with sensitive data on it to put a company in violation of HIPAA.
4Med Approved reports that one small unencrypted thumb drive resulted in a $150,000 HIPAA penalty after it was stolen from an employee’s vehicle. This HIPAA penalty could have been avoided had the data on that thumb drive been protected by AccuImage’s SmartCipher product, which automatically applies encryption based on the contents of the document without user intervention. This layer of encryption also travels with the document so that the data is secured no matter if it is within the company’s network, stored on portable media or in cloud storage.
Contact AccuImage, LLC for more information about how our SmartCipher solution can protect your company’s sensitive information.
Source: http://www.4medapproved.com/hitsecurity/small-thumb-drive-brings-large-hipaa-penalty/
AccuImage's SmartCipher™ Solution Secures Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)
AccuImage can provide data centric security for your electronic protected health information (ePHI) using our Covertix SmartCipher™ solution.
Health care is a vulnerable sector with respect to cyber security. Medical institutions are attractive targets, and attackers are becoming more sophisticated. According to the Ponemon Institute’s Fifth Annual Benchmark Study of Privacy and Security of Health Care Data, criminal attacks against ePHI have increased by 125% over the last five years. Health care organizations are trusted with sensitive health information and the compromise of this data potentially risks lives.
We offer the Covertix SmartCipher™ solution to provide persistent and transparent protection of critical medical data assets. Authorized users will be able to work normally while our solution provides protection using industry standard encryption along with complete control of the confidential patient data.
SmartCipher™ provides seamless persistent protection by wrapping the actual data with a protection layer that secures the data itself be it in motion, at rest or in use.
SmartCipher™ adds ongoing control and protection, securing patient data that resides within, as well as outside of the healthcare organization’s boundaries, independent of network, device, application or data type. For example, if data has been transferred to an external drive or uploaded to a remote location it will not be useable by an unauthorized person. Care providers will have complete control and protection of the confidential data with extended reporting and audit capabilities for compliance. Our solution provides the ability to lock down security and provide audit compliance from the point at which data has been received, all the way through to the last critical mile of exchanging patient data.
Contact our team at AccuImage today! We will demonstrate our unique and robust solution for protecting data that is specific to your industry.
"The Great Brain Robbery"
In case you missed it, 60 Minutes on CBS aired an excellent report on the threat faced by American Corporations from cyber-attacks.
In the report titled “The Great Brain Robbery” which aired on 60 Minutes on Jan. 17, 2016, correspondent Lesley Stahl wasted no time in identifying the primary offender.
“If spying is the world’s second oldest profession, the government of China has given it a new, modern-day twist, enlisting an army of spies not to steal military secrets but the trade secrets and intellectual property of American companies. It’s being called ‘the great brain robbery of America.’
In the report Stahl spoke with John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for National Security. Speaking about the Chinese government Carlin told Stahl, “They’re targeting our private companies. And it’s not a fair fight. A private company can’t compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.
To see the full report please go to:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-great-brain-robbery-china-cyber-espionage/
If you would like to learn more about our data centric security solution that extends control and protection of confidential information within and beyond the perimeter of an organization. At a high level, it provides attribute-based security/encryption that stays with the file when it is shared, copied, forwarded, edited, etc. ensuring that sensitive information stays protected. Please feel free to contact us at 615-242-7226 or tom.beasley@aitest.accuimagellc.com
Accuimage Develops ePAV System For The Metropolitan Government Of Nashville & Davidson County
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County uses AccuImage’s ApplicationXtender system for document management. As most of their documents are a matter of public record, Metro Government decided it would be more efficient to empower the public to retrieve their own documents rather than utilize internal manpower fulfilling these requests for documents. The process needed to be simple enough for the average citizen to easily use and also had to accommodate a variety of operating systems and web browsers since Metro Government had no control over the public users’ computers.
AccuImage was tasked with custom development of a system that would fulfill this need for Metro Government, and the solution we provided is now called ePAV. Our software uses the existing ApplicationXtender document repository as a backend, so the data available in our ePAV system is always the most current data in their Imaging System. While Metro Government stores documents in the AppXtender system in a variety of formats (TIF, JPG, DOC, XLS, PDF, etc.), our ePAV system converts each document to a standard PDF file when a public user requests it, ensuring that users can easily open and read the document with a free version of Adobe Reader rather than needing to install the programs associated with the original file types. Users can either print the document or download the digital copy of the document, whichever is their preference.
Users enter search criteria to a web page, which is then passed to our ePAV processing server, where the request is parsed and submitted to the AppXtender database and fulfilled. Because the search interface is a simple web form, Metropolitan Government of Nashville has complete control over the look and feel of the front-end interface that is presented to their public customers. This allows for them to change the web page’s look, content, and more without need to engage AccuImage’s development team when cosmetic changes are necessary for the web page interface.
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County has recently announced the two latest departments to go online in our ePAV system, and you can read it in their news article here: http://www.nashville.gov/News-Media/News-Article/ID/4136/New-Metro-Contract-Search-Tools. The Metro article also provides links to two of their departments live ePAV pages.
Control & Protect Confidential Information, Anywhere
SmartCipher™ provides definitive security for any type of file used anywhere inside or outside the organization. A simple yet sophisticated rule set embedded in the file determines where, when, and by whom materials can be viewed, printed, changed and shared.
AccuImage, LLC partners with Covertix
AccuImage, LLC is pleased to announce our new strategic partnership with Covertix. Together, AccuImage and Covertix deliver security solutions that are data-centric, elevating our customers’ information security to a new level designed to protect their data even if documents or devices fall into the wrong hands.
For close to 20 years Accuimage has provided clients document management and business process automation solutions designed to improve business operations. With this new partnership AccuImage now offers a security solution that provides persistent protection to information at rest or in motion.
Click here to read the official press release regarding our newest partnership. Contact us for more information about our SmartCipher™ suite.