Today I’ll like you to head over to Simon Thorpe’s blog to read his latest blog post titled “Data loss, encryption & security in health care - is your medical data safe?”. It starts off by giving you an idea how bad the level of data breaches are in the health care sectors are especially in the US and UK.
Simon goes on to discuss protecting health care records using persistent security in the form of Enterprise Rights Management, also called Information Rights Management. Persistent security secures records while it is moving over the network, when it being used and when it is stored on any form of storage media.
Simon, I am sorry to say I do not expect data security to get any better over the life of the current parliament as the government has embarked on spending cuts which is most likely to impact data security. Read my post on the UK government spending cuts.
