Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
NetIQ security and administration products assist healthcare organizations in meeting their compliance goals, streamline their business processes to improve business continuity and operational efficiency. This reduces the overall costs of doing business to ensure efficiency, security and maximum profit. At NetIQ, we develop easy to use, modularly integrated security management solutions that assist customers with regulatory and policy compliance while enabling these organizations to secure their IT assets and manage risk.
Business Problem
Organizations within the health care industry-whether public companies, private companies, non-profit or federal agencies-must comply with a myriad of regulations, while simultaneously trying to operate cost-effective, patient-centric organizations. To continually improve business continuity and operational efficiency, the IT departments must implement strategies and processes to:
- Assure service levels, policy compliance and appropriate risk management
- Secure all assets and services
- Reduce the cost and complexity of heterogeneous IT infrastructure management
The NetIQ Solution
NetIQ provides award-winning and industry-recognized products that aid organizations in the health care industry with regulatory compliance, securing their networks and enabling an IT infrastructure that operates at peak efficiency and availability. Specifically, NetIQ can help organizations in the areas of:
Key Features
NetIQ products can help to address the issues faced daily by health care-related organizations:
- Assure compliance with leading regulations that affect the health care industry, including HIPAA, GLBA, VISA CISP, Sarbanes-Oxley, the PATRIOT Act of 2001, and the Privacy Act of 1974. NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager allows security analysts and auditors to define comprehensive configuration policy templates and automatically evaluate systems against those policies.
- Develop policies quickly and easily throughout the enterprise, including policies for security configuration, education and awareness. With NetIQ VigilEnt Policy Center, stakeholders can easily create, review and approve policies online to expedite consensus and reduce time and effort.
- Improve network security by quickly identifying and rectifying network vulnerabilities and security incidents. NetIQ Security Manager helps organizations to be proactive rather than reactive by enabling fast identification of potential and existing threats, and providing detailed and accurate security knowledge to staff to enable quick remediation and reduce exposure times.
- Protect patient information by defending against denial of service attacks, detecting when a service account is used for interactive logons, detecting rogue processes and alerting on suspicious failed logon attempts. With NetIQ Security Manager, you can also protect attacked systems from further harm by taking actions such as automatically logging off unauthorized users, shutting down rogue processes and reconfiguring firewall rules.
- Ensure availability of the organization's critical systems by making sure they are accessible and operating at peak efficiency. NetIQ provides the leading Performance Management products that play an essential role in managing and reporting on service levels and application availability, as well as tracking data for trending and capacity planning.
