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Passed in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established to improve the healthcare system’s storage and use of patient data. As health insurance and healthcare services modernize and digitalize, more health information is stored, transferred, and updated digitally.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance is about more than firewalls and passwords. Your file-sharing solutions could be the weakest link in protecting sensitive patient data. When we think about healthcare cybersecurity, we tend to focus on large systems: electronic health records, databases, and billing platforms. But one everyday workflow that’s also as vulnerable – and often overlooked – is file transfer.

Each industry has standards and regulatory compliance concerns. The health care industry arguably has the most well-known, thanks to the Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its efforts to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe. HIPAA compliance is essential for organizations that store, maintain or transmit ePHI and staying on top of HIPAA regulations can be challenging.

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of IT compliance and the part it plays in IT security. It will also help you choose the right compliance reports tool for your company. As you get started, SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) comes highly recommended as a near-automated IT security compliance solution that enables you to verify IT compliance and helps you perform many compliance-related IT operations.

PCI DSS is an industry security standard existing primarily to minimize the risk of debit and credit card data being lost. This is in the interest of both the customer and the merchant, because if data is lost or misused, the merchant could be subject to legal action. To protect yourself and your customers, you first need to understand the six PCI DSS control objectives and how to meet them.

When you make a credit card transaction, the last thing you want to think about is your data getting stolen. Fortunately, credit card companies put several measures in place to make sure this doesn’t happen. For businesses dealing with customer payments, PCI DSS compliance measures are a simple and necessary step in making sure customer credit card data is well protected. Ensuring PCI compliance can be a complex undertaking.

Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is essential for any organization that handles credit card data, and it extends far beyond databases and payment gateways. One area often overlooked is file transfer workflows, which can pose serious risks if not properly secured.