Network Security Challenges in Healthcare

Healthcare environments present unique security and management challenges for IT organizations in order to secure access to network resources, to protect confidential patient information, and to ensure the network is available to all who need it. Added to this is the challenge of achieving compliance with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and others.

Disparate security systems – or silos of security – in today’s networks do not provide healthcare IT staff with an effective solution for taking on these challenges. An adaptive network security approach is needed in order to integrate and leverage various security technologies, correlate information from multiple sources, and automate network control and security policy enforcement.

This whitepaper discusses a platform that allows healthcare IT organizations to effectively secure and manage network access to address critical security and operational challenges.