{"id":8949,"date":"2013-09-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/sep\/20\/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-cloud-security-for-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:30:00","slug":"understanding-the-fundamentals-of-cloud-security-for-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-cloud-security-for-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the fundamentals of cloud security for healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By David Linthicum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuing our discussion from my last blog in July, perhaps it&rsquo;s helpful to drive deeper into security approaches and technology for use within clouds that serve the healthcare vertical.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll start by focusing on the fundamentals of cloud security for healthcare.&nbsp; However, some of this is transferable to other verticals as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First fundamental: Understand the data that will reside in the cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare data has something in common.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s dangerous to manage, unless you know exactly what you&rsquo;re dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>As we migrate health data to the cloud, it&rsquo;s important to understand the data that will reside in the cloud-based systems, in terms of compliance and security requirements.&nbsp; This means understanding what is PII data, and what is not, as well as dealing with specific security requirements around encryption.&nbsp; This includes data in flight, and at rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second fundamental:&nbsp; Identity-based security &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David LinthicumContinuing our discussion from my last blog in July, perhaps it&rsquo;s helpful to drive deeper into security approaches and technology for use within clouds that serve the healthcare vertical.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll start by focusing on t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}