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Congratulations to Imprivata customer Parkview Adventist Medical Center for recently earning the HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation! HIMSS Analytics highlights the Stage 6 award as recognition for hospitals that have made significant investments in healthcare IT and as well as implementing paperless medical records. This is a remarkable achievement for Parkview, considering that they’re one of only 42 hospitals out of 5,166 in the US to attain this level.
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Another insider unauthorized access incident came across my radar just as I put the finishing touches on my most recent blog post highlighting Lesmany Nunez’s case being the latest example of a disgruntled employee breaching a network. As of today, the most current remote access security breach involves Danielle Duann, an IT director of a nonprofit organ and tissue donation center.
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I was reading the recent security breach news about Lesmany Nunez, a former IT administrator who was recently sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison for computer fraud. Mr. Nunez was an employee at Miami-based Quantum Technology Partners (QTP) and three months after his employment ended, he was still able to access the company’s network with an administrator password. What he did then was break into QTP’s servers, shut them down, change the system administrators’ passwords and erase files, all of which ended up costing QTP more than $30,000.
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Late last year, California enacted a new state law to help notify patients of potential breaches of their personally identifiable health information, requiring healthcare organizations to report suspected incidents of data breaches. The initial results are in, and it’s not pretty. According to the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, California officials have received more than 800 reports of potential health data breaches in the first five months since the laws went into effect on January 1st. Of the 122 cases that have been investigated, 116 have been confirmed assecurity breaches. Officials expect the numbers to grow as more organizations put in the processes to report potential breaches.
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Back in January, I shared some of my observations on 2009 Priorities for identity management in the new economic reality people are faced with - productivity, security and manageable IT projects. This year’s economics have forced people to do more with less, manage tighter budgets and maintain enterprise security while dealing with re-orgs and layoffs. While 2008 was the worst year to date for data breaches, 2009 hasn’t been much better if you look at this chronology of data breaches, including the recently disclosed incident at Goldman Sachs. The Identity Theft Resource Center keeps tabs as well, and has a nice snapshot of high-profile data breaches. Many of these are the result of unauthorized access, some combined with placing malicious code on servers or laptops to siphon off data. It’s amazing the methods that are being used to access systems, steal data, sometimes extort money and always damage reputations. Potential impact of the Goldman Sachs’s unauthorized upload of proprietary software is still under investigation, but information on how easy it was to pull off makes for scary reading. Given the potential impact of data breaches, there has been significant progress made to tighten access to systems, so let’s review some of the relevant things that are happening in identity management. Following are three areas, I believe, we need to watch for in the latter half of 2009...
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The New York Times recently published an interesting article on the rising problem of medical identity theft. When the federal government last researched the issue in 2007, more than 250,000 Americans reported that they were victims of medical identity theft. Since that last report, most experts agree the problem has undoubtedly grown, in part because of the growing use of electronic medical records built without extensive safeguards. To exacerbate the situation, cleaning up after medical ID theft can be hindered by HIPPA compliance – the regulations protect the medical information of the ID thieves as well as you.
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Theoretically, as employees go on vacation during the summer months, there will be fewer demands on your IT team. Realistically, we know that’s not true and it seems like there is actually more to do. However, summer can provide the opportunity to step back and evaluate the state of your identity and authentication management infrastructure and policies. Here are five things that are easy to overlook throughout the year that you should consider doing this summer:
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I was reading about the recent access management related breach at the California Water Services Company, where an auditor resigned, but illegally accessed computer systems to steal more than $9 million before leaving. While the company should be lauded for catching the fraud before the wire transfers could go through and irreparable damage could be done, it should serve as another cautionary tale in what has become a recurring theme on the application security front. This is just one more saga in an every growing litany of tales of breaches that we’ve hearing about.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently put out a draft “Guide to Enterprise Password Management” for public comment for feedback and improvement. While it gives a lesson in password management history, it doesn’t quite break new grounds on prescriptive opinion.
Dave Kearns provided useful analysis of the NIST paper in his recent Managing Passwordsarticle on Network World, and a couple of nuggets of wisdom jumped out at me:
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HIMSS is right around the corner.
It's one of our favorite conferences of the year, as we get to see many of our healthcare customers all in one place. As I mentioned in my last post, if you're attending the conference this year, please plan to stop by our booth (#7339) and say hello, or check out the presentations by Imprivata's customers. OhioHealth and Southwest Washington Medical Center will be discussing the ‘Paperless Hospital' and ‘HIPAA Audits' respectively. With all the focus on healthcare now, what trends am I going to be looking for at HIMSS this year? Here are a few topics that our customers have shared with us: