ARX for Healthcare

In the recent years, cyber criminals are interested in the electronic medical records as it has patient history, including their financials. The data in the electronic medical records contains: patients’ names, their dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, places of work and designations, IDs, card numbers, medical and social insurance. Stealing such information can lead to a complete identity theft. Today’s healthcare organisations need solutions that can eliminate password management complications.

There is an easy solution to this – using the same user id and password across all systems that you are going to use. With the Single Sign-On (SSO), instead of a password for every application, users have one password to remember. With that single sign-on, they can get access to all their applications. SSO assures that the users have a strong password. Also, it eliminates the need of a middleman to reset passwords time and again.

SSO makes IT’s life easier and the hospital more secure.

With SSO,

In IBM’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Report by the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a breach for any industry was set at $408 per record and the average cost amounting to $3.86 million for an organization, a 6.4 percent spike from last year. Passwords are also one of the easiest targets as new methods such as password spray attacks have been on the rise. This is where multifactor authentication methods can step in to provide an extra level of identification security. In fact, according to the Annual Report to Congress on the Federal Information Security Management Act of the USA, up to 65 percent of cyber-security incidents could have been prevented with strong MFA.

MFA creates multiple layers of security, resulting in efficient and diligent authentication. This ensures that the user requesting access is actually who they claim to be.With MFA, a cybercriminal may steal one credential, but will be thwarted by having to verify identity in a different manner.MFA is an effective way to provide enhanced security for all your IT resources including cloud, on-premise and mobile.

Insider threats are the most damaging to the healthcare sector. According to a 2019 report, 46% of healthcare organisations were affected by insider threats. In fact, it is the only industry where insiders were responsible for a higher percentage, a staggering 44.9% of breaches than external actors. What is more distressing is the fact that it takes about 350 days to identify and contain a data breach in the healthcare industry.

Leveraging automated user management also streamlines role-based access control. This ensures a seamless user experience. Along with security suite features like authentication, access controls, privileges, entitlements, single sign-on & security policies and activity auditing across organisation, they can also create an error-free workflows as well.

With a better User Management,

Data breaches cost healthcare organizations $408 per record to contain — almost twice the cost suffered by financial institutions, which came in a distant second place. So, it becomes impertinent for hospitals to prepare, detect and analyse, contain and eradicate the risks and the breaches. With life cycle-managed users, Access Controls and Authorisation Access can be easily managed and mapped. Along with a maker-checker workflow, the educational institution will also have visibility on how that is done and by whom. With a clear visibility and detection mechanism in place, they can also respond to any threat, which otherwise could leave them exposed.