Healthcare Security Solutions
Challenging Times for the Healthcare Sector
Information security is critical to healthcare organizations as it directly relates to patient trust in your organization, your organization's reputation, and has enormous legal liability if compromised. Data breaches containing electronic patient healthcare information (ePHI) have affected millions of customer records in the last 18 months alone. It's not just best practice anymore to protect patient information, it is a legal requirement by HIPAA- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Sharing that data with other hospitals and healthcare providers, insurance companies, and business partners such as manufacturers and suppliers is a challenge since each may have varying standards in their security practices. Yet your organization is required to create and implement security procedures and policies to insure that when that confidential data passes to and from your organization's information network, it remains safe and uncompromised. Healthcare organizations continue to be in the news with ongoing sophisticated Internet-based attacks aimed at compromising their confidential information. Effectively managing sensitive customer data requires a proactive strategy to keep your healthcare organization’s network protected from both internal and external threats. Sword & Shield has over 10 years of proven healthcare industry experience to reduce your security risks and provide organization-wide protection of your information.
Proven Approach
Sword & Shield consultants provide hospitals and healthcare organizations with a proactive strategy to effectively manage sensitive patient information by developing a security program to meet your specific organization's goals and regulatory and compliance needs. We primarily help healthcare organizations with Network Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing. We also specialize in the development of security policies and procedures to help you meet HIPAA mandates that require healthcare organizations to maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of patient health information.
Our consulting services are available to assist you in all aspects of the security life-cycle: planning, specifications, design, installation, deployment, integration, operations, support, testing, policy development and compliance reporting. We can do application security testing from both an external and internal perspective. We typically conduct these tests from both an informed and uninformed perspective to give a healthcare organization a better understanding of their weaknesses and potential threats from both insiders and from those without specific knowledge of their systems. Our consultants use a proven, mature testing methodology to ensure the most comprehensive assessments using the most up-to-date tools and techniques for identification of vulnerabilities. Our experience in healthcare includes long-term security consulting on an ongoing basis to control and react appropriately to the rapidly changing threats and technologies that continue to challenge healthcare organizations. We help you manage and mitigate your security risks so that you can show that your patient healthcare information (ePHI) is safe and ultimately result in a competitive advantage for your hospital or healthcare organization.
Professional Service
In addition to our Security Assessments, Sword & Shield Enterprise Security is one of the few companies in the Southeast that is QSA certified from the PCI Security Standards Council; we provide assessment and audit services to the Payment Card Industry (PCI). Our competitive difference is in the experience of our consulting staff and the experience we have in your industry- over 80 % of our engineers have achieved the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification and many maintain additional industry and product certifications to include Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Qualified Security Assessor(QSA) certifications.
Our Markets
We service many markets, predominantly in these sectors:
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