Starting April 21, 2005, a new security rule focusing solely on PHI that is stored and transmitted electronically will be enforced as part of HIPAA. The requirements of this rule, which are simply information security best practices, focus on three cornerstones of a solid information security infrastructure – confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

The imminent HIPAA regulatory requirements encompass PHI transmission, storage and discoverability. Given widespread use and importance of e-mail, enforcement of HIPAA encryption policies and growing demand for secure e-mail solutions, e-mail security has never been more important to healthcare industry than it is right now.

IronMail significantly contributes to compliance with HIPAA privacy and security requirements as they relate to protecting PHI that is transmitted and stored via e-mail. Everything from data encryption to firewall and intrusion protection to content filtering is included in IronMail solution. Once in place, IronMail can be used to protect e-mail going into and out of corporate networks.

As IronMail is a standards-based appliance, it can be integrated into any existing e-mail system seamlessly, without requiring extensive IT staff training, or relying on users to take extra steps to perform e-mail functions.

The IronMail appliance is tailored to help organizations comply with stringent new guidelines imposed by HIPAA, from security management processes to access control to data integrity.

HIPAA compliance is seen by many organizations as a prohibitively expensive hurdle to overcome. In addition, growing dependence on e-mail as a mission-critical application requires security and privacy to be a top priority. A solid combination of security policies and technologies to enforce those policies can ensure improved security as well as HIPAA readiness and ongoing adherence. With IronMail, organizations reduce information complexities as well as associated management costs which can help improve patient relationships, increase quality of care, and improve bottom line. E-mail can indeed be safe and secure.

Historically, enterprises have turned to multiple vendors to solve their e-mail security issues. They have relied on anti virus vendors to protect them from viruses. They use a separate anti spam vendor to help cut back on spam. Then there are issues of content filtering, policy enforcement, encryption, and network security. Over time it has become clear that having so many vendors approaching these issues from so many directions is prohibitively expensive and time consuming for administrators to manage.

Increasingly companies are turning to hardened e-mail appliances like CipherTrust’s IronMail. According to Gartner, globally respected IT research firm, “Instead of having several email security-related point products at boundary, many enterprises will want only one”.

IronMail is designed specifically to guard against port 25 attacks on enterprise e-mail systems. It can be tuned to work effectively with any type of organization and has been employed for use in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, government, finance, education, manufacturing, retail, and many more. It allows organizations to stop spam and viruses, protect employees from fraud and inappropriate content, enforce corporate policies, provide secure delivery, encrypt e-mail, and provide remote access.

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Learn more about how IronMail can secure enterprise e-mail systems by visiting www.ciphertrust.com or by downloading CipherTrust’s FREE whitepaper, b>“Securing Email Systems: An Overview of IronMail, Secure Email Gateway”. This FREE resource will provide you with information you need to make an informed decision about securing your e-mail systems and ensuring system availability to end users.