Dell's Marchand Says Encrypting Mobile Device Data Essential in Health Care
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title=Mobility Altering the Health Information Security Landscape}
eWEEK: How is mobility changing
the landscape of health information security?
Marchand: I think there's a real concern of how do you allow people to have the
mobility to do their job and how do we make that data secure. They will allow
these devices to be used but will load software on it that will make sure that
every interaction between that personal device and the system's network is
controlled, so that if anything ever happens to the phone, you can lock it
down, you can encrypt it or you can wipe that portion of the data off the phone
without touching some of their personal resources.
eWEEK: How is security handled
differently for health information on mobile devices versus desktop?
Marchand: I think you're going to see some of the same things on the desktop.
It's just more of the techniques we use because we have to support more
operating systems, and everything else is slightly different for the truly
mobile device. Some consider a laptop a mobile device. The desktop is going to
become less prevalent over time as people have different ways to access system
resources and to access what they need to-as we get more devices out there,
managing those from a central place where there's a single set of credentials
to manage. What the physicians don't want is to have three or four devices to
make them more efficient.
Essential credential
management is going to be an important part moving forward. The encryption side
of it. Knowing where your endpoints are and knowing if it's a place you're able
to track it down.
You may have six different
operating systems when people use their own devices. It's OK to let them do
that, but you're going to make them load software on to the device. Software
segregates what was loaded on for business reasons versus personal reasons. If
a phone or mobile device gets lost or gets stolen, all the information that
went through that software can be wiped off of that device remotely.
