Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Maryland, has selected SanDisk’s Cruzer® Enterprise secure USB flash drives and Central Management & Control (CMC) server software to protect highly confidential medical and organizational data.
Part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine health care system, Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is a comprehensive medical center providing services to more than 165,000 people a year, with a staff of 1,700 full-time and part-time employees, as well as more than 800 physicians and other allied health professionals.
HCGH uses SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise the secure USB flash drive to provide on request to managers in all departments of the hospital, and subsequently purchased SanDisk CMC software to manage those drives through the hospital’s network.
There is not much more sensitive information than patient records, so ensuring data security one of the highest priorities here in health care. The SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise drive was selected due to its files encryption and password protection technologies. The CMC software has been implemented so IT staff gain greater control over data stored on these secure USB flash drives, as well as the ability to remotely supervise day-to-day tasks such as password management and backup.
Secure USB Flash Drive Delivers Healthy Peace of Mind
Confidential Medical And Organizational Data Now Secured With SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise Secure USB Flash Drives, Managed By SanDisk CMC Software. The Howard County General Hospital is a leader in adopting new healthcare and IT solutions, and once again is leading the frey by turning to SanDisk to help create a secure mobile data environment. Looking beyond security, HCGH will appreciate how Central Management and Control can increase the IT staff’s management and analysis into how the drives are used.
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drives protect all files stored on the drive with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. Users are also required to create a complex password during the set-up process. The combination of encryption and password protection makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access data if the drive is lost or stolen. Cruzer Enterprise is also fast, with read speed of 24 megabytes (MB) per second and write speed of 20 MB/sec1.
Central Management and Control for Secure USB Flash Drives
SanDisk Central Management and Control (CMC) software provides complete lifecycle management for all secure USB flash drives, including forced USB drive password encryption, password recovery and renewal through the network, remote termination of lost drives, central back-up and restore, and central usage tracking.
At the end of the day, this means data is never lost just because the hardware has been lost. In the event of a lost drive, the IT administrators can instantly provision a replacement flash drive with user files stored on the network.