Security breaches can have a crippling effect on any organization's business operation. Confidential information has the greatest value to cyber criminals and is the most sensitive data of all. Unfortunately cybercrime is now a multibillion dollar international business that has the resources to fund highly sophisticated hacking threats that can easily elude traditional security solutions.
In spite of these potentially devastating threats to data security, most organizations' data security strategy still employ a traditional defense strategy which heavily relies on a combination of antivirus and file and folder protection.
Recent studies show that data breaches are the most common problem for organizations in the U.S. Specifically, the healthcare industry has been no exception to such data breaches.
The shortcomings of current data security strategies are:
- File and folder encryption solutions protect the residing data (confidential files, folders) but provide no protection when the data are being created, which is a vulnerability exploited by today's sophisticated malware.
- Password authentication which is vulnerable to password stealing malware and which may be residing in the user's computer.While passwords continue to be by far the most prevalent authentication method, enhancement to password authentication method, using keystroke encryption, is critical to data security.
- Password authentication which is vulnerable to password stealing malware and which may be residing in the user's computer.While passwords continue to be by far the most prevalent authentication method, enhancement to password authentication method, using keystroke encryption, is critical to data security.
An adequate data protection measures is of critical importance in the healthcare industry. This not only applies to data residing on computers and other portable devices and data transmitted across networks, but also to data that is being entered into applications such as browsers and email, which are subject to fast-evolving security threats.
BlueGem Security provides an essential layer to the data security
- BlueGem Security provides an additional, essential layer to data security, by encrypting all keystrokes right from the point of entry (keyboard).
- By combining this with existing file and folder encryption solutions, an organization can protect user data at two critical levels - resident data (file and folders) and data that is dynamically entered into applications.
- Significantly reduces the risks to existing password authentication methods, by encrypting the user password from the keyboard.
- BlueGem's proactive 128 bit data encryption protects data until the antivirus software is able to deliver a patch to protect against new threats.
BlueGem Security can provide a various forms of solutions that suit an organization's needs, ranging from a stand-alone, client-server based and customizable APIs:
- BlueGem Total Privacy
- BlueGem Keystroke Encryption
- APIs for application integration
An adequate data protection measures is of critical importance in the healthcare industry. This not only applies to data residing on computers and other portable devices and data transmitted across networks, but also to data that is being entered into applications such as browsers and email, which are subject to fast-evolving security threats.