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HIPAA Guidelines: Understanding HIPAA Compliance on the Cloud

Cloud data, CloudEZ

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates industry-wide standards for protection and confidential handling of the electronic healthcare information for electronic billing and other processes. In order to maintain the HIPAA Privacy regulations, the Healthcare providers and organizations must develop and follow certain procedures to ensure the confidentiality and security of the Protected Health Information(PHI). The ‘Guidance on HIPAA and Cloud Computing’ released in 2016, by the US Government of Health and Human Services(HSS) provides information on maintaining HIPAA compliance while using cloud computing services for storing and managing ePHI. Based on this, the HealthCare organization and Cloud Service Provider(CSP) is directly liable for meeting both the business associate agreement(BSS) and compliance with the associated requirements of the HIPAA rules.

Ramping up Telecommute Capacity

Healthcare

Among the COVID-19 guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for business is to prepare for “social distancing” to minimize exposure. While not every job is eligible for telecommuting, many are, and this strategy can be an effective way for businesses to offer flexibility to their employees while allowing important work to continue.

Top 4 Best Practices for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Implementation

Cloud Computing

Hackers attack and continue to be hostile to many organizations. Despite all security measures like regular vulnerability tests, deployment of encryption technology, etc., today’s organizations are highly prone to IT security breaches. It’s high time to strategize and anticipate a defense mechanism to protect their system and data. Nowadays, many organizations are turning their eye to Multi Factor Authentication or MFA for securing their complex and nexus environment. In this blog, we will discuss the top 4 best practices to be followed while implementing the MFA solution.

Envision Your Cloud Journey with Cloud Assessment

Cloud Computing

Helping Customers Chart their path to Cloud

We understand that successfully migrating to the cloud is not an easy task and requires a thorough assessment of the company’s requirements before we can create a relevant migration roadmap. Although adopting a cloud mindset is a good start, and assessing the cloud readiness of the organization is very important. It helps to find existing organizational gaps that need to be addressed.

Today’s Reality: Continuous Security & Compliance

Cloud Computing

The Need to shift from Incident Security to Continuous Security

Compliance with industry regulations alone cannot protect businesses from security breaches. Changes in the cloud infrastructure are rapid, so an automatic and sustainable approach to cloud security must be in place.

Cloud Vendors Offering Assistance During COVID-19

Cloud Computing

A couple weeks ago, I published Ramping Up Telecommute Capacity. In that article, I mentioned that several cloud vendors were offering some incentives to organizations to help them take advantage of their services to support telecommuting and other changes to IT operations.

Why Cloud Enterprise Platform Approach? & What’s in the Box?

Cloud Computing, Cloud data

One of the most important aspects required for an organization to survive and outperform their competitors is AGILITY. Agility gives an organization the ability to be proactive and responsive to market changes as they occur. This leads to innovative approaches resulting in faster times to market and accelerated revenue growth. Driving this agile business approach is the Cloud.

Automating Cloud Services to Meet Security and Compliance

CloudEZ

With close to 90% of enterprises adopting a Cloud-first approach, the Cloud has become the obvious choice for rolling out business applications. As IT’s focus shifts from technology provider to service provider not only does their role change but the need for automation also increases. New services must be delivered on demand and at the speed of business. To meet these demands DevOps and service automation are a central part of a sound Cloud strategy.

Cloud Healthcare Security

Not Getting the ROI You Expected from the Cloud? Look at Your Operating Model

Cloud Computing, Cloud data, CloudEZ, DataEz

According to a recent Accenture analysis, two out of three life sciences organizations struggle to achieve optimal return from their investments in cloud computing. This is unfortunate, considering that the cloud is clearly emerging as a game changer in pharma, biotech, medtech and other companies in this space. In pharma alone, the cloud computing market is expected to reach $12.1 billion in 2022, up from $4.7 billion in 2017.

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