According to a recent report by Ponemon, the average cost of a data breach for the healthcare industry is $15 million per breach. For an industry that is the most targeted in cyber attacks, suffering 4x more attacks than other industries, that’s an amount you don’t want to risk paying.
How are those attacks happening? Remote access is the leading attack vector in healthcare, and most commonly, remote access via your third parties: 63% of data breaches are attributed to third parties.
In addition to the prospect of a breach, many healthcare organizations struggle to maintain and demonstrate HIPAA compliant remote access when it comes to third-parties. Utilizing common access methods such as VPN or desktop sharing tools often results in security groups spending hundreds or thousands of hours monitoring access and dealing with audit requests.
At the very real risk of a $15 million breach, and required compliance with HIPAA, you can’t afford to not secure the remote access of your third parties.
Checklist
Learn how, with SecureLink for Healthcare, you can eliminate the third-party vulnerabilities that can threaten HIPAA and HITECH compliance. You can count on the granular access control and monitoring features you need to secure your third-party access.
Detailed Audit | Capture all activity with HD video and keystroke logs, showing files transferred, commands entered, services access and work completed, to easily demonstrate HIPAA compliance |
Multi-factor authentication tied to individual accounts | Ensure approved vendor access with individual accounts for each user, layered with multi-factor authentication |
Native credential vault or integration with your PAM | Store network credentials securely and pass directly into a session, ensuring vendors have zero visibility to network or application credentials |
Access controls | Define allowed access down to the host and port level with access timeframes and assign granular permissions to each user, ensuring least-privilege access across all users |
Built-in HIPAA compliance and best practice checklist | Use the built-in checklist to verify your SecureLink server is configured to satisfy HIPAA and PCI compliance, as well as security best practices |
HIPAA Reporting | Provide detailed reports from a single solution to internal and external auditors checking for HIPAA compliance and security best practices |
Approval workflows | Define required approvals needed for each application, and delegate access approvals to clinical application owners |
Self-registration | Allow vendors to create their own user account, and send the approval request directly to the application owner without needing IT support for account creation |
Universal access methods | Support connectivity and audit for all TCP and UDP protocols, including, but not limited to, RDP, SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP and custom protocols; allow vendors to use their own native tools |