Lock Down mHealth Security Eliminate Complexity and Increase Confidence


WRITTEN BY KEN CONGDON D


ON’T make mobile security more complex than it needs to be. Focus on risk assessment


and your overall security architecture to limit your exposure. While no industry can claim


its data is 100 percent secure, the security situation is definitely more dire in healthcare than it is in other markets. The severity of the situation is illustrated by numerous studies, including a 2013 survey by the Ponemon Institute showing that


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medical identity theft increased 20 percent in 2012, affecting more than 2 million people. This growing problem is perpetuated when PHI falls into the wrong hands, and the prevalence of mobile health technology only makes this scenario more probable. “Health providers today are basically


trying to plug new innovative mobile technologies and devices into legacy architectures that can’t support the effective protection of information in a mobile environment,” says


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Mark Kadrich, author of Endpoint Security and former principal security architect of a leading health provider organization. “Most providers aren’t taking all the elements of a mobile infrastructure—the network, the cloud, and mobile technologies— and combining them to create an environment that protects the data. Instead, they are largely relying on vendors to solve this problem for them.”


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