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Information Security Concepts in Healthcare : Authorization

Posted by Shawn Riley in Monday, February 9th 2009

Topics: Editorials Tags: Access, Authentication, Authorization, health care, Information, Least Privilege, Resource, rights, security, User

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When talking about Information Security, authorization is the act of determining whether a user, or resource, is allowed to perform a specific action with regards to specific data. In a very simple example giving someone a key authorizes them to open any matching mechanical lock. But a lock is a much less complex mechanism than [...]

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare : Authentication Part II

Posted by Shawn Riley in Monday, February 2nd 2009

Topics: Editorials Tags: Access, Accountability, Authentication, Challenge Response, Cryptographic Challenge/Response, Healthcare, Healthtechnica, Information, Man in the Middle Attack, Method, Replay Attack, security, Smart Card, Technology

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In the first article in this series, on Authentication, I touched on UserName/Password as well as Biometric Authentication. I would like to talk about one more important method of authentication before moving on to Authorization.

Cryptographic Challenge/Response Authentication

Information Security Concepts in Healthcare: Authentication

Posted by Shawn Riley in Saturday, January 24th 2009

Topics: Editorials Tags: Access, Accountability, Authentication, Authorization, Entropy, Healthcare, Healthtechnica, Information, Method, security, Shannon, Technology

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The importance of privacy within the healthcare industry is as old as the practice of medicine. In the middle of The Information Revolution, though, it has taken on a whole new level of complexity. As soon as Electronic Medical Record (EMR) databases were being hosted on Private networks connected to The Internet. Information Security took [...]

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