Broadlane and OKENA Announce Agreement for Securing Healthcare Network Systems with Industry-Leading Intrusion Prevention Software.Business/Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 OKENA to Provide Network Security Solutions to Broadlane's Healthcare Provider Customers Broadlane Inc., a leading provider of total cost management services to the healthcare industry, and OKENA(TM) Inc., the leading developer of intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. software, today announced that they have entered into a two-year agreement for OKENA to provide intrusion prevention solutions to protect the computer networks of Broadlane's healthcare provider customers. "The intrusion prevention security provided by OKENA StormWatch(TM) and StormFront(TM) will enable our customers to protect their patients' private data and avoid the downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. associated with network intrusions and viruses," said Sabrina Traskos of Broadlane's information technology group. "This agreement with OKENA expands our information technology service offerings and gives our healthcare customers the ability to confidently secure their network infrastructures." The agreement provides Broadlane customers with access to OKENA's StormWatch and StormFront security products. Built on OKENA's powerful INCORE INCORE International Conflict Research INCORE Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity INCORE Internet Content Rating for Europe INCORE Integral Concept for Groundwater Remediation (TM) architecture, StormWatch is the heart of OKENA's intrusion prevention solution and is designed to constantly monitor and prevent known and unknown attacks and viruses. StormFront, OKENA's front-end policy generation tool, provides the ability to develop customized policies to protect specific applications and network resources. The combination of these two intrusion prevention products provides proactive protection designed to stop malicious network attacks, prevent damage from viruses and protect the integrity of data on servers and desktops. "Strong, proactive security is vital in the medical industry where sensitive patient data is stored on networks and servers that are constantly subjected to new and unknown malicious attacks," said Tom Turner, vice president of marketing at OKENA. "OKENA StormWatch enables organizations to prevent intrusions from executing within their networks, without relying on costly, time-intensive patch updates. Additionally, with the compliance deadline for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when (HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, ) fast approaching, StormWatch helps healthcare organizations not only meet HIPAA requirements, but move to a full-scale intrusion prevention solution that goes far beyond the mandated level of security." HIPAA, passed in 1996, exists to ensure appropriate protection of confidential healthcare information. The wide reach of HIPAA covers both storage and transmission of this data and stipulates comprehensive compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). , assuring specified levels of privacy. OKENA's intrusion prevention technology helps healthcare organizations comply with HIPAA mandates and protect their networks from both known and unknown attacks. OKENA's comprehensive network solution works without the delays, difficulties and costs associated with traditional reactive security approaches that are based on signatures and the distribution of periodic patches. The software is designed to integrate with existing custom or legacy systems to protect any application or network environment. This means that the security will work with existing infrastructure investments as well as future technology upgrades. About Broadlane Broadlane delivers total cost management to the healthcare industry, allowing hospitals to reduce operational costs while maintaining or enhancing patient care and clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher. cli·ni·cian n. satisfaction. Broadlane services include contracting, clinical services, technology and data management, and outsourcing services. Among the companies that focus on cost management within the healthcare supply chain, only Broadlane offers this total cost management approach. Broadlane customers include leading healthcare providers such as Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. , Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) is an operating company that owns and operates 57 hospitals in the United States [1]. It is based in Dallas, Texas. Its stock ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is NYSE: THC. Corporation, Universal Health Services Universal Health Services, Inc. NYSE: UHS is a Fortune 500 company based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This company is one of the nation's largest health care management companies, operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers , Continuum Health Partners, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, Kindred Healthcare Kindred Healthcare Incorporated (NYSE: KND) is a Fortune 500 healthcare services company located in Louisville, Kentucky. Kindred Healthcare was founded in 1985 as Vencor, Inc. , Community Health Systems, U.S. Oncology, Alliance Imaging Inc., and others. Broadlane counts among its customers more than 450 acute care hospitals and more than 1,400 sub-acute care facilities. Broadlane has offices in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.; Cincinnati; Dallas; and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . For more information, visit www.broadlane.com. About OKENA Since 2001, OKENA has been delivering breakthrough security software products that proactively preserve the operational integrity of applications and host systems. OKENA StormSystem(TM) is a system of seamlessly integrated security products that act in unison to prevent existing and unknown attacks without relying on attack signatures. OKENA has made security suites unnecessary by establishing a common underlying "intelligent agent" architecture called INCORE that allows for true integration among OKENA products, including future technology developments. OKENA's policy-based, application-centric technologies enforce authorized application behavior to allow acceptable business activity while proactively preventing dangerous activity from executing. This behavioral approach reduces high IT costs associated with the maintenance and deployment of traditional attack-centric signature technologies. OKENA continues to receive industry validation, with recent recognition including being named a finalist for the 2002 MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan eBusiness Awards, receiving a five-star review of StormWatch from SC Magazine, and being named as a "company to watch" in 2002 by Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. . OKENA, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., was founded in 1999 and is privately held. For more information on StormSystem and OKENA's INCORE architecture, visit the OKENA Web site at www.okena.com. OKENA, INCORE, StormWatch, StormSystem and StormFront are trademarks of OKENA, Inc. Other trademarks used in this document are the properties of their respective owners. |
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