Healthcare

Hospitals, medical centers, and providers of healthcare services are responsible for maintaining an extraordinary amount of classified patient information such as medical charts, insurance and billing data, and test results. The privacy of patients and their data is regulated by requirements like HIPAA, and heavy fines can be imposed on organizations that are out of compliance.

In fact, February of 2011 marked the first civil fine imposed in a HIPAA case—a penalty of over $4 million. Closely monitoring access and activity on individual files, minimizing group proliferation and open access across the environment, and securing high risk shares as well as important mailboxes in Exchange are just some of the steps that IT administrators in the healthcare field must take to ensure the security of their environments.