Secure Storage
Sensitive data at rest is the most vulnerable data of all. Experts share their suggestions on how and where to protect it.
When a contractor lost a CD containing records of nearly 3 million recipients of its health-care services last April, the Georgia Department of Community Health launched a security crackdown for employees and contractors.
"An employee of the contractor handling the CD full of protected health information violated the policies and procedures that we had reviewed and approved at the time of contracting -- policies that included full encryption of individuals' health information in transit or at rest," says Ruth Carr, security and compliance officer for the Georgia Department of Community Health.
