Ecora Announces New HIPAA Report Pack with Release of Enterprise Auditor 3.6.PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Offers cost-effective, repeatable, and sustainable solution to address 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, technical and administrative safeguards Ecora, the leader in change and configuration management software solutions supporting IT control, compliance, and security, today announced the release of Enterprise Auditor version 3.6 that includes its new HIPAA Report Pack, a collection of more than 150 pre-built report definitions that address the technical and administrative safeguards of the HIPAA security standard. "The manual process of preparing for a HIPAA security audit is time consuming, resource intensive, and prohibits sustainability, said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ecora. "When organizations look at technology for compliance, they need to consider automated solutions such as our Enterprise Auditor that can cost-effectively help them maintain compliance in a repeatable and sustainable manner." The primary objective of the HIPAA security rule is to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information protected health information Health informatics Any individually identifiable health informatlon that is used or circulated by an entity that falls under the governance of HIPAA; the privacy regulations mandate safeguards for protected health information, and the (ePHI) when it is stored, maintained, and transmitted. The requirements of the HIPAA security rule are organized into three categories, two of which (administrative and technical safeguards) require the selection, development, use of, and validation of IT controls. Easy to set up and use, Enterprise Auditor quickly discovers servers and workstation to automatically collect the most detailed configuration settings on a scheduled basis to a centralized, consolidated database. From the systematically updated and stored configuration data, users can run hundreds of in-depth report types including 150 newly added reports contained in the HIPAA Report Pack. These HIPAA security specific reports include access control, audit control, internal policy compliance, and change monitoring. "Because configuration inconsistencies create security risks, one of the key elements of the HIPAA security standard is maintaining up to date configuration documentation of servers, workstations, and applications," said Scott Carpenter Malcolm Scott Carpenter was one of the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 for Project Mercury. Created by the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Project Mercury was the United States' answer to the Soviet Union's space program. , product manager, Ecora. "Designed based on our customers' experience with HIPAA security standards and administrative safeguards and our extensive research of 45 CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight Part 164, the new HIPAA Report Pack for Enterprise Auditor deliver required reports for validation to the HIPAA security rule--providing significant time and resource savings." There's more to Enterprise Auditor 3.6 The latest version of Enterprise Auditor offers an unmatched set of modules that collect hundreds of configuration settings specifically for each of the platforms it supports. This includes Windows servers and workstations, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. , Novell NetWare, Novell Directory Services See NDS. , Cisco, MS-SQL, Exchange, Lotus Domino, IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , Active Directory, Citrix, and Oracle. It also has an updated UNIX/Linux module that automatically collects new user and group configuration data to address security and IT audits needs. Additional new features of Enterprise Auditor 3.6 include: --International language support - Ecora Enterprise Auditor for Windows can now be installed on and provide reports for German, Spanish, and Japanese versions of Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003. --New reports for Citrix Presentation Server Software from Citrix that provides a timeshared, multiuser environment for Unix and Windows servers. Formerly MetaFrame, Citrix Presentation Server uses the ICA protocol to turn the client machine into a terminal and governs the input/output between the client and server. 3.0 - 166 new built-in reports that deliver detailed configuration information for all Citrix areas including administration privileges, applications, farm, licenses, servers, sessions, printers, user policies, and resource management. Pricing and Availability The Ecora Enterprise Auditor suite with the new HIPAA Report Pack is available immediately. Enterprise Auditor for Windows Servers and Enterprise Auditor for Unix/Linux Servers are priced at $995 per server. For additional information contact Ecora at 877-92ecora (923-2672), e-mail sales@ecora.com, or visit www.ecora.com. About Ecora Software Ecora provides a total configuration management solution that automates multi-platform configuration reporting, change monitoring, and patch management. Ecora's solutions enhance efficiency and reduce the costs associated with IT compliance, business continuity, and vulnerability assessment while providing the means to monitor change and plan for recovery. Ecora supports enterprise platforms from Cisco Systems, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, and Citrix. For more information about Ecora Software, visit www.ecora.com. 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