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With the growth of electronic medical records in the healthcare industry, HIPAA legislation necessitates vigorous information security standards to protect personal health information (PHI). This sensitive information has been stored on and communicated over information systems that could possibly be compromised. These information systems require a risk assessment to comply with HIPAA and other industry regulations. Compliance with these regulations is pivotal to healthcare organizations because a slip in security can result in legal liabilities. Our information security specialists have extensive experience with HIPAA guidelines, and will perform the required risk assessments and implement the proper solutions to secure your information.
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Bridge Technical Solutions has the knowledge and experience to develop information security plans that can be adopted by your organization. The information security plan addresses organization specific issues by:
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• Analyzing existing policies, practices, security logs and past security events to determine
your current security posture.
• Performing network analysis to document the flow of information through the network and
possible security soft spots.
• Analyzing applications to locate security weaknesses which can place sensitive
information at risk.
• Assigning a valuation to information assets and assessing the risk of the assets
being compromised.
• Evaluating your current application profile to determine if your application is in accordance
with industry best practices.
• Determining the vulnerabilities that could provide unauthorized access to your information.
• Creating a Threat Matrix which combines the vulnerabilities, the probability of vulnerabilities
being exploited, and the countermeasures to alleviate the vulnerabilities.
• Detailing countermeasures to thwart security risks.
• Communicating to key personnel within your organization for a better understanding of the
information security processes.
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