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Do you
have sufficient in-house expertise?
For small-to-medium
size organizations, building in-house expertise can be cost-prohibitive.
Securewise, offers a very cost-effective solution to bring on-board an
expert to develop and to implement your security program.
How important is the privacy of your patient information?
Network security is not just about protecting information assets; it's
about good business. A smart organization does not view security as an
overhead, but as a business enabler. A secure network enables your organization
to conduct business with more community partners and customers over the
Internet. A well-designed secure network can improve employee productivity
and provide a measure of liability protection.
Organizations like yours may have eHealth requirements that include:
- Protecting the privacy and integrity of patient information
- Conducting business transactions with community partners over the
Internet
- Bringing clinical and administrative information together in a usable
way
- Providing access to mission-critical applications using Web technology
- Providing access to network resources to various user groups including
access over the Internet
Role of the Security Program Director
The Security Director is responsible for the effectiveness and completeness
of the organizations security program. The Security Director will have
responsibility for:
- Developing a security program that ensures the security, integrity,
privacy and availability of information and the systems that handle
it.
- Developing security policies, standards, procedures, on-going oversight,
and setting security requirements for new project initiatives.
- Working closely with corporate technology development and technology
infrastructure groups as well as senior management.
- Developing architecture and security models to form a basis for future
technology projects.
- Ensuring that robust monitoring and measurements are in place while
providing leadership, guidance, direction and authority for technology
security across all corporate technology departments.
- Overseeing the day-to-day and strategic aspects of the organizations
security program.
- Developing incident handling response procedures and a business continuity
plan.
- Ensuring that workflow within the division runs smoothly so that new
technology projects are appropriately monitored for security risks and
appropriate risk mitigation requirements are efficiently set forth and
appropriately designed and delivered with the newly developed production
system.
- Reviewing and updating on a continuous basis, standards and architecture
to prevent unauthorized access of the company's technology systems.
- Responding to security violations, contacting appropriate personnel
to report and resolve the violation; adhering to applicable organization
and governmental regulations and laws.
- Developing and conducting security awareness programs to all employees.
Ultimately, the Security Program Director's job is to implement a
sound security program that prevents security breaches.
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