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NHS Dumfries & Galloway secures patient records carried on USB
memory sticks
6 March 2009
NHS Dumfries & Galloway has selected SanDisk’s Cruzer Enterprise USB
flash drives and CMC server software, to secure confidential patient
information at both the company headquarters and in 50 field offices
across Dumfries and Galloway in South West Scotland.
The organisation has deployed over 1,100 Cruzer Enterprise USB flash
drives with SanDisk CMC server software to protect transfers of
otherwise unencrypted, personally identifiable information in electronic
format.
With data loss and theft on the rise in government agencies in the
UK, in 2008 NHS Dumfries & Galloway started an initiative to implement
stringent policies for safely storing patient data on PCs, laptops, PDAs
and other mobile devices, to proactively manage potential security
problems before they happened.
Its IT department wanted to ensure that employees did not have to
give up the convenience of carrying data on memory sticks, and sought a
solution that would keep patient data password-protected and encrypted,
as well as centrally managed and controlled.
Following a process of benchmarking solutions, Dumfries & Galloway
selected SanDisk’s Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives and CMC server
software.
“I’ve been in this business a long time, and I’ve yet to see a
comparable solution that centrally manages the drive’s complete
lifecycle the way that SanDisk’s CMC does. Simply put, we know that our
data is now safe and secure. SanDisk has changed the way we work,” said
Graham Gault, Head of Information Management and Technology for NHS
Dumfries & Galloway.
The USB flash memory drives are specifically designed to meet the
security, compliance and manageability needs of large enterprises, and
to help IT professionals more effectively protect mobile data. Rather
than relying on users to secure files, the flash drive imposes mandatory
access control on all files, storing them in a hardware-encrypted,
password-protected partition.
SanDisk’s CMC server software provides lifecycle management tools for
Cruzer Enterprise drives, including password recovery and renewal
through the network, remote termination of lost drives, central back-up
and restore functions, and central usage tracking. This means data can
be retrieved when a drive is lost, and IT administrators can provision a
replacement flash drive with user files stored on the network.
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