Executive Management asked Elliott Davis to help answer: “Is my electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe from cybercriminals and others that steal healthcare data?”

Context

  • The organization serves patients through its network of hospitals, clinics, and surgical centers.
  • Needed to mitigate risks associated with creating, maintaining, transmitting, storing, and securing electronic protected health information.

 Our Approach

  • HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis
  • Cybersecurity Center for Internet Security (“CIS”) Top 20 Assessment
  • External Vulnerability Scan/Penetration Testing
  • Social Engineering Assessment

 Customer Results

  • Met legal requirements
  • Received HIPAA Security Rule Risk road map for each of its entities to efficiently and effectively begin to mitigate risk exposure
  • Gained understanding of cybersecurity exposure through assessment and established plan and framework to remediate identified gaps
  • Identified how to protect areas an attacker might exploit to gain access to environment

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