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North York General Hospital selects Thales to enhance patient-centric careSAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, is providing hardware-based encryption technology to North York General Hospital (NYGH) to facilitate the secure exchange of information between the hospital's physicians, healthcare staff and patients. The resulting digital service supplements in-person consultations with online communications using PCs and mobile devices, enabling more timely and convenient interactions between patients and hospital staff. According to the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, Healthcare Edition, 66 percent of global healthcare IT respondents experienced a data breach in the past. It was therefore vital to this project that the security architecture ensured information remains confidential and completely unintelligible for everyone other than the message sender and the legitimate recipient. The solution provides end-to-end protection of traffic while simultaneously enabling the use of a wide range of devices increasingly common within the healthcare industry – including patient-owned mobile phones, medical appliances and ultimately, IoT devices. With a goal of identifying a strategy that allowed for growth, flexibility and privacy, NYGH selected IDENTOS, a global provider of encryption services and solutions, and a Thales technology partner, to provide the security platform needed to run the service. IDENTOS offers an innovative key management technology specifically optimized for mobile application integrations to protect data and transactions on mobile devices. The IDENTOS technology integrates in a few hours with full-service modules for application anti-tampering, data encryption, digital identity, Fast Identity Online (FIDO) authentication and end-to-end secure chat. The IDENTOS encryption-as-a-service subscription platform is integrated with Thales nShield Connect hardware security modules (HSMs) to protect and manage cryptographic keys within a hardened device. nShield Connect HSMs support some of the highest cryptographic transaction rates in the industry, making them ideal for the cyberattack-prone healthcare sector. Sumon Acharjee, CIO of North York General Hospital says: Peter Galvin, VP of strategy for Thales e-Security says: Thales nShield Connect is certified to FIPS 140-2 standard defined by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE). The Thales HSM generates the NIST required Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) keys utilized by the IDENTOS data encryption platform. Read about how Thales and IDENTOS helped secure NYGH in our case study. For more information about our partners, including IDENTOS, please visit our partner page here. Industry insight and views on the latest key management trends can be found on the Thales e-Security blog at blog.thalesesecurity.com. Follow Thales eSecurity on Twitter @Thalesesecurity, and on LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. About Thales eSecurity About Thales Positioned as a value-added systems integrator, equipment supplier and service provider, Thales is one of Europe's leading players in the security market. The Group's security teams work with government agencies, local authorities and enterprise customers to develop and deploy integrated, resilient solutions to protect citizens, sensitive data and critical infrastructure. Thales offers world-class cryptographic capabilities and is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions for defence, government, critical infrastructure providers, telecom companies, industry and the financial services sector. With a value proposition addressing the entire data security chain, Thales offers a comprehensive range of services and solutions ranging from security consulting, data protection, digital trust management and design, development, integration, certification and security maintenance of cybersecured systems, to cyberthreat management, intrusion detection and security supervision through cybersecurity Operation Centres in France, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong. View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/north-york-general-hospital-selects-thales-to-enhance-patient-centric-care-300519372.html SOURCE Thales |