Ease Your Path to HIPAA Best Practices

Why HIPAA Compliance Matters

HIPAA compliance is a set of regulatory standards introduced in 1996 to secure patient health information (PHI). These standards ensure that patients’ medical information is kept private and secure, especially as healthcare facilities move towards digital record-keeping. Non-compliance with HIPAA can lead to severe consequences, including legal penalties and substantial fines. Even a minor security breach that compromises patient data can erode trust and negatively impact credibility.

While there is no official certification for HIPAA compliance, our TeraStation network storage products offer built-in physical and digital security measures can help simplify and support your compliance efforts so you can easily meet HIPAA best practices.

TeraStation Security Features to Help Meet HIPAA Compliance

Locking Mechanisms: Kensington Security Slot on desktop and rackmount units enables you to physically secure your device to a fixed location. Front Panel Lock desktop systems include a locking front panel discouraging removal of drives from your device.

AES 256-bit encryption (Advance Encryption Standard) adds another layer of protection by encrypting sensitive patient data and records that are stored on your device. Proper authorization is needed to access that information. This is a feature that customers must activate. This feature is required to be turned on for boot authentication.

Private cloud or hybrid cloud models enable you to back up, store, and share information in a manner that is in line with HIPAA best practice recommendations where data is physically stored on systems maintained by your organization instead of public cloud environments which are more susceptible to hack attempts.

Keep Your Drive Warranty Services help organizations meet HIPAA mandates that require you to retain storage drives and require paperwork for retention of drives. This service allows organizations to achieve HIPPA best practice requirements by retaining defective hard drives and reduces downtime by shipping replacement hard drives next business day.

There has been a sharp elevation in ransomware attacks that are particularly targeting the healthcare industry. Third-party apps are an especially common vector for malware, which is why all TeraStations run on a closed system that prevents third-party apps from being installed. Certain TeraStation models also include Buffalo's Abnormal File Activity and Login Detection feature, which actively identifies and notifies you of events that could signal a potential ransomware attack.

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