Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Solution

Implementation: § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(B)

HIPAA Standard	Check Point Solution
Administrative Safeguards HIPAA Security Rule 164.308
§ 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(B) Risk management (required) Implement security measures to reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level. Reasonable and appropriate refers to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information, providing protection against reasonably anticipated threats and protecting against reasonably anticipated uses of electronic protected health information (EPHI) that are not permitted.	Application Intelligence, Web Intelligence, and patented Stateful Inspection are core technologies used across all Check Point solutions, including VPN-1, InterSpect, Connectra, and Check Point Check Point Endpoint Security, to deliver network- and application-level firewall and intrusion prevention. Check Point solutions provide logical separation of security for network elements and mitigate the risks of malicious attacks on an organization's perimeter, internal, Web, or endpoint infrastructure. Check Point solutions ensure a consistent and effective perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security policy through a centralized management infrastructure. VPN-1, InterSpect, and Connectra can be managed under a single SmartCenter management console. Check Point's SmartDefense Services provide real-time security updates for Check Point products and alert customers to new vulnerabilities and configuration policies, as well as provide information on possible risks to their networks and, as such, to their electronic protected health information.

HIPAA Standard

Check Point Solution

Administrative Safeguards HIPAA Security Rule 164.308

§ 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(B) Risk management (required)

Implement security measures to reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level.

Reasonable and appropriate refers to ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all electronic protected health information, providing protection against reasonably anticipated threats and protecting against reasonably anticipated uses of electronic protected health information (EPHI) that are not permitted.

Application Intelligence, Web Intelligence, and patented Stateful Inspection are core technologies used across all Check Point solutions, including VPN-1, InterSpect, Connectra, and Check Point Check Point Endpoint Security, to deliver network- and application-level firewall and intrusion prevention. Check Point solutions provide logical separation of security for network elements and mitigate the risks of malicious attacks on an organization's perimeter, internal, Web, or endpoint infrastructure.

Check Point solutions ensure a consistent and effective perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security policy through a centralized management infrastructure. VPN-1, InterSpect, and Connectra can be managed under a single SmartCenter management console.

Check Point's SmartDefense Services provide real-time security updates for Check Point products and alert customers to new vulnerabilities and configuration policies, as well as provide information on possible risks to their networks and, as such, to their electronic protected health information.

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