REASONABLE STEPS TO IDENTIFY DATA BREACHES AND BETTER PROTECT PRIVATE PATIENT RECORDS
PRIVACY ACT AMENDMENT 2017 (NOTIFIABLE DATA BREACH SCHEME)
Delivering great patient services requires the storage of vast amounts of private information and patients trust requires the assurance of confidentiality. The nature of these records held by Private Health businesses requires full compliance with the Australian Privacy Act and its Amendment, 2017 (NDBS):
The implementation of reasonable measures to safeguard from, detect and report on notifiable data breaches is a must:
"APP 11 REQUIRES AN APP ENTITY TO TAKE ACTIVE MEASURES TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION IT HOLDS"
Most Private Healthcare Providers utilise a vast array of information technologies both hosted on premise and cloud-based. Protecting access patient data alone is a big challenge. Identifying a breach using traditional information technologies is no longer possible and IT Service Providers alone cannot provide this assurance.
MANAGED SIEM SERVICE, THE ANSWER IS VISIBILITY
As Healthcare IT environments grow ever more distributed, complex and difficult to manage, the role of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies is more important than ever. SIEM technology and services provide a mechanism to quickly deploy a log collection infrastructure that directly delivers on this requirement and allows both instant analysis and access to recent operations data as well as the archival and retrieval of old data.
One of the greatest benefits reported by our customers is the unprecedented visibility of their operations that is gained. The numerous sensors that can be deployed instantly allow business owners to identify problems and vulnerabilities as well as gaining insight to their
operations.
A SIEM can pull data from disparate systems into a single pane of glass, allowing for efficient and proactive action towards a resilient operation.
PRACSEC understands the need for Patient Privacy and Compliance. We offer a
robust and flexible threat analysis capability as a service to support your
operations. With PRACSEC Discovery SIEM, your health practice will be provided with an
advanced security visualization and analysis service, backed by award winning technology that is deployed in minutes.
Please contact us on 1300 23 20 20 or info@pracsec.com.au and let us demonstrate to you how.