to have a comprehensive monitoring,
recording and isolation of all privileged user
sessions, detailed activity reports on critical
ePHI databases and applications, along with
fully searchable audit logs and complete,
multi-layered audit trail data protection.
How to approach securing
your integrated care delivery
network investment
The biggest imperative for organisations is
to manage privileges to proactively protect
against, detect and respond to attacks in
progress before attackers compromise
vital systems and data. But managing
privileges does not mean denying them,
rather controlling who has access to what
and why. Managing privileged access is a
crucial part of basic cybersecurity hygiene
which can have a significant, positive impact
on an organisation’s security posture and
compliance efforts.
Privileged access security is an essential first
step in maturing a healthcare cybersecurity
programme and must be a strategic priority.
It can provide proactive, automated, end-to-
end detection and protection for all privileged
access to systems containing ePHI. Privileged
threat detection and analytics provides the
ability to respond and remediate to any
anomalous or high-risk activities. Monitoring
the behaviour of privileged activity to ensure
users are not disabling, circumventing or
altering implemented security safeguards and
controls is not only a best practice but often
required by regulations.
Privileged access security is an
essential first step in maturing
a healthcare cybersecurity
programme and must be a
strategic priority.
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In the age of never ending cyberattacks and
stricter regulations, securing the environment
is no longer an option but a necessity.
Beyond the regulatory costs and risk to
patient data, breaches can considerably
slow down processes, which can become life
threatening for patients waiting urgently for
operations and whose health data is suddenly
held in ransom or wiped from the database.
Securing privileged access management
needs to be at the forefront of healthcare
organisations to be fully compliant and
protect patients’ data thoroughly. u
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