HIPAA Security Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system and to reduce the incidence of fraud. The focus of this policy requires, among other things, the secure transfer of electronic health care information.

How does CipherOptics help?
CipherOptics CipherEngine enables Secure Information Sharing, which assures the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of data in motion on any network. Our approach to protecting both your network and your data is to deny access to everyone, permit by exception. With that as our driving force, our solutions provide you with both encryption and authentication of all your critical information.

We use 256-bit AES encryption that is approved by the government for "sensitive but unclassified" information; our solutions authenticate networks and packets, as well as, protect data. Using the robust secure hash algorithm (SHA-1) to verify the integrity of the data, rejecting any packets that have been manipulated or altered.

The CipherEngine solution secures health information by applying the most robust encryption protection to data when it is most vulnerable - traveling over the network. For example: A hospital is complying with HIPAA regulations by using the CipherEngine solution to encrypt radiology files sent to a disaster recovery site over a Gigabit Ethernet line. So whether an undetectable sniffer captures patient medical information on a network link or an ISP accidentally misrouts a data stream, the confidentiality of health-related information is assured.

CipherEngine can also help protect electronic health information in storage by thwarting intrusion at the network level, not at the storage level. Its deterministic firewall feature can reject any packets that lack proper encryption-based authentication. Thus, only data originating from the original sender of the data can pass through to the storage network. This effectively turns the storage network dark to all unauthenticated traffic from the network.

Network-wide Secure Information Sharing is an important part of best practices - for keeping patient data confidential and for complying with HIPAA. CipherOptics offers a reliable and proven method of ensuring HIPAA requirements for data confidentiality, integrity, and authentication.

What does CipherOptics do?
CipherOptics is the leader in network-wide encryption. Offering an innovative policy and key management solution, coupled with high speed, low latency encryption technology, CipherOptics helps their customers mitigate the risk of data leakage, loss and theft over any network.

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Helpful Resources
HIPAA Statute
HIPAA Final Security Rule
HIPAA Security Standards: Technical Safeguards

For more information or to learn how CipherOptics can help you protect your sensitive data as it moves across any network, call us at 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a quick question.