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Healthcare and Hospital security - breaking news

Viewfinity’s Newest Privilege Management Release Dramatically Raises Level of Manageability, Reducing Burden on IT Through Automation

Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the leading provider of privilege management solutions, today announced Viewfinity Privilege Management 4.0, a compelling and major upgrade to the company’s flagship product.

With this release, enterprises have a new, automated approach previously not available in any solution for managing rights and privileges for standard users on Windows endpoints and servers. Viewfinity’s new, intelligent automation identifies commonly needed privileges across the entire user base within an organization and automatically aggregates privilege needs, then creates a single policy to address the common need for a collective group of users. This containment of policy proliferation results in enormous time, cost and management savings. Another major announcement in this release is Viewfinity’s Least Privilege Control for Data.

"The one vulnerability we can’t easily patch are end-users. The single most important way to improve endpoint security is to run more of... [ more ]

Insider Threats at Children's Hospital detected by Veriphyr

Veriphyr, is a pioneer in provison of identity and access intelligence (IAI. It announced that it has donated to its patient privacy breach detection service to Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in partnership with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH). The Veriphyr service protects patients’ personal health information (PHI) by detecting inappropriate access by hospital employees and other insiders. Veriphyr applies “big data” analytics to identify potential privacy and regulatory compliance violations, as well as data breaches.

“Gillette is confident that Veriphyr’s privacy breach detection and user access compliance services will support our commitment to protecting our patients’ PHI, and we look forward to partnering with them on access control efforts going forward,” said Paul Hibgy, who is responsible for change management and IS security at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare. “We are excited that our affiliation with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals ha... [ more ]