Four things to know about cyber surveillance

By adopting user-activity monitoring, healthcare providers can record every action of users accessing sensitive data, getting cyber surveillance to match the video surveillance they have in the physical world


Hospitals must evolve their cybersecurity to match the security standards and procedures they have developed for their physical facilities, according to an article on the Business Solutions website.

By adopting user-activity monitoring, healthcare providers can record every action of users accessing sensitive data, getting cyber surveillance to match the video surveillance they have in the physical world, the article said.

According to the article, the four things every healthcare organization should understand about user-activity monitoring are:

• It’s not a luxury item

• Video surveillance cannot stop a crime, but it can deter it

• It will shorten an HIPAA audit

• It can monitor the cloud

Read the article.

 

 



April 17, 2014


Topic Area: Safety


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