A recent health care breach has been documented. Massachusetts has recently passed a state law forcing health care facilities to report personal information breaches. While this may not be a preventative step it can help others realize when security measures inside bigger establishments are not working. It will force security vendors to be more careful about installations and audits of their technologies in the business.
Unfortunately as of the writing of this post, Massachusetts is a leader in the country for this law, but writing your congress person can help establish the value of this in other states.
The reason for this particular breach was based around losing track of a physical hard drive. This means a device inside of a laptop was not removed, or the hard drive was removed and not locked up or where the hard drive / computer storage facility was not properly secure with physical key monitoring and tracking.
As much as it is a concern about what 'virtual doors' hackers are using, it is possibly more important to have a detailed physical security measures for all hard drive storage and old computer destruction. Probably the most assured way to avoid stolen data from old hard drives is to destroy the hard drive data, or the device completely.
For more ideas and considerations for enterprise hard drive handling, contact Menlo Technical Consulting today for an upgrade to secure corporate data.
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