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Vendor CEO: Final Report
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Vendors indicate increased current and future use of all security applications. Firewalls are the most commonly used technology, and are expected to remain so in the future. |
Respondents were asked to indicate the security tools they believed were important to healthcare organizations in maintaining data integrity, both currently and in the next two years. For the second year in a row, firewalls were cited most frequently—81 percent this year, compared with 46 percent in 2002. User access controls were cited by 65 percent of respondents, and disaster recovery rounds out the top three, cited by 59 percent of respondents. Data encryption, ranked second last year, fell to fifth place. Audit logs recording each time a patient health record is accessed dropped from third place to fourth place.
Respondents believe firewalls will continue to be important; these security applications were most frequently cited as the security tool that vendors believe will be important to healthcare organizations in two years. Rounding out the top three security technologies of the future are audit logs (mentioned by 65 percent, up from third last year), and user access controls (mentioned by 61 percent, up from sixth).
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Figure 13. Current Use of Security Tools Figure 14. Security Tools (Today vs. Next Two Years) |
