UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCIENCE CENTER

MEETING STRINGENT HIPAA REQUIREMENTS

BACKGROUND:

The UT Health Science Center deals with crisis, innovation and celebration every day. The faculty and staff of the facility not only nurse people back to health, but they educate the medical pioneers of the future and develop some of the most cutting-edge treatments in the world. The more than 30 gigabytes of patient and employee records that contain financial information, there is already a call for strong security. Add to that sensitive and crucial medical information as well as the intellectual property from their research divisions, and you have a data collection that forms the backbone of the facility.

BUSINESS NEED:

• Meet stringent federal HIPAA information protection requirements.
• Safeguard the vast store of intellectual property the University has accumulated.
• Protect sensitive patient medical and financial information.

RESULTS:

• Vometric Data Security Expert’s patented ability to encrypt while leading file header and other meta-data in the clear strongly protects sensitive data like medical records while allowing system administrators to perform their data management tasks.
• Context-aware access control that protects data by controlling who gains access, but also when, where and how they request access to all protected data whether it is local or networked.
• Vormetric Database and File Encryption Expert modules enabled implementation without affecting the applications, networks and storage architecture, dramatically reducing implementation time.
• Vormetric protects UT data in all forms including databases, document files or even print files on a printer server, as well as information in any physical storage, SAN, NAS, or local storage. There are no weak spots or exposed areas, and no need to supplemental solutions, such as for tape storage.

CUSTOMER QUOTE:

"Our information is the lifeblood of our facility. We consistently deal with financial, compliance, confidentiality and even intellectual property issues with sensitive, valuable data at the core of all of it. Vormetric's solution helped us secure these information assets without affecting the rest of our technology implementations or affecting the performance of our IT Infrastructure."

Kevin Granhold
Director of Server and Desktop Services