Regulatory Challenges
Due to the nature of the healthcare industry and the inevitable digitization of patient medical information, the demand to protect patient information is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The primary legislation behind the privacy and security reforms is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. It requires all healthcare industry organizations that process, store, or transmit sensitive electronic patient health information (ePHI) to implement proper privacy and security safeguards around a defined set of processes.
Endian Solution
Endian’s network security solutions can ease the burden of meeting the HIPAA requirements through their unified security platform. With Endian, healthcare organizations can easily connect and secure their remote offices while providing seamless network security to their end-users.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) – Endian offers two flavors of VPN connectivity (IPSec and SSL) using the best and proven open source applications available. Our SSL solution also provides highly secure roadwarrior access that remote users can access from anywhere. This means you get industry-grade encryption (128-bit and higher) on branch office and remote user access so you can be assured any sensitive information is adequately protected from unauthorized or inappropriate access.
Web & Mail Security – Endian’s integrated Web and email security provide transparent gateway filtering and protection from Internet threats like viruses, Trojans, phishing attacks, and spam. Not only does it protect from outside threats, but the same technology can assist organizations in monitoring and managing employee productivity and liability issues. By keeping your Web and email protected from threats, you get peace of mind that your organizations sensitive information is safe.
Network Separation – Endian network products are preconfigured with network “zones” that provide automatic protection out-of-the-box between more secure and less secure networks so organizations don’t have to be concerned with building or managing intra-network security and can focus on more important business priorities.
Logging / Audit Capability – All of the Endian security functions can be setup to log critical security information with a single click. Whether it's Web filtering, intrusion detection, management or VPN access, or anything else, Endian can log it all. It also provides a simple interface to retrieve historical log information over any given period of time in the event that an audit required.
Technology Challenges
The technology growth and demand for instant access to information is driving most (if not all) healthcare organizations to adapt how they use and provide medical information not only to their employees and medical staff, but also to their customers and patients. This means organizations are expanding their ability to access information by making it as available as possible by utilizing wireless networks and enabling remote access from anywhere in the world. The expansion though has to be counterbalanced by those regulatory requirements that mandate the protection of patient privacy and security above all else.
Endian Solution
Using Endian products you will always be prepared for new technologies because we keep our solutions current and are always integrating the best network and security advancements. Our ability to capitalize on the open-source market of technology coupled with our talented development staff allows us to meet any demand or requirement.
Wireless Networks – Endian offers the ability enhance your existing wireless infrastructure by adding hotspot capability instantly. Whether you are offering open access to your customers/patients or need something more restrictive, Endian hotspot can be tailored to your network and security requirements. This enables organizations to provide customized wireless access to their employees and/or customers without compromising the protection of patient information.
Endian Network – Endian Network allows organizations the ability to easily manage and monitor all of their Endian devices using one centralized portal. You can monitor device availability and receive outage notifications as well as manage and push out critical application and O/S updates and upgrades. By simplifying the management of network devices, Endian Network enables organizations to focus on the business and not waste valuable resources and time.
High Availability – All Endian products come with the ability to run in high-availability mode which enables either an active-standby or active-active pair of devices to maintain availability in case of software/hardware failures. The active-active mode also enables load-sharing through the pair of Endian devices so you can get the most from your devices. As healthcare organizations’ network access and uptime requirements increases, tolerance for network downtime and unavailability decreases, so with high availability you get complete redundancy.
WAN Load Sharing – With Endian you can have multiple WAN connections and ensure network availability using WAN failover which is handled intelligently and automatically. Not only do we support Ethernet-based failover, but we also support most UMTS/CDMA USB broadband modems so you can get cheap and widely accessible Internet for a backup (or primary) connection. Using multiple WAN connections, you can increase uptime and better utilize available bandwidth as well as provide network segregation and data security by keeping outbound traffic separated.
Case Study
SavaSeniorCare is one of the largest providers of short-term and long-term healthcare services in the Unites States. Through our affiliated entities, we provide services through skilled nursing facilities in several states. More information
Endian Features
- Network Security
- Web Security
- Mail Security
- VPN
- Hotspot
- Management
- High Availability
- WAN Failover
- Network Address Translation
- Routing
- Logging/Reporting
- Updates and Backup
Endian Hardware Appliances
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