Permeo Cures Remote Access Security and Compliance Pains for Upper Chesapeake Health; Permeo Helps UCH Meet HIPAA Regulations, Protecting Personal Health Information Accessed by Remote Employees, Partners and Customers.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Permeo Technologies, the leading provider of on demand information security solutions, today announced that Upper Chesapeake Health (UCH), a non-profit health organization located in Harford County, Maryland, chose Permeo Base5 to meet its endpoint security and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance needs. With healthcare partners, physician offices, staff and customers remotely accessing its network daily, UCH selected Permeo Base5 to provide secure, on demand remote connectivity and advanced information security controls for unmanaged endpoints.

As a leading healthcare organization, UCH faces critical regulatory and security challenges, including how to protect its network and data when accessed by remote users. In order to meet several HIPAA requirements, UCH had to prevent remote users from saving and printing patient information, and it needed granular controls to extend remote access based on the filename, database or other network resource. Previously, UCH had used IPSec VPNs which were difficult to manage and provided no remote desktop controls over users' systems or actions. Further compounding the problem, many end users would log in from non-UCH devices, such as home office PCs, which significantly increased the risk of outside threats such as spyware compromising the information and potentially the UCH network.

UCH turned to Permeo Base5 to provide secure on demand access for its remote users and meet compliance requirements for the protection of patient information. Permeo Base5 is the only SSL VPN that provides access to all medical applications, including picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) applications, without requiring any client side software to install and maintain. Additionally, Permeo Base5 provides UCH with comprehensive endpoint information protection and security features to prevent inadvertent information leakage and malicious data theft. Finally, with comprehensive auditing capabilities Permeo Base5 helps UCH meet compliance requirements for HIPAA and other regulations for the logging of all end user access to patient information.

"We have hundreds of remote employees that work on transcription and coding from their home offices, which caused a real concern when it came to HIPAA compliance and network security," said Rick Casteel, vice president of MIS at Upper Chesapeake Health. "Easy to deploy and manage, Permeo Base5 solved all of our remote access and compliance needs, including protection against increasing security threats. We are now planning to migrate to a larger mobile workforce, and with the help of Permeo Base5 we can build the organization without increasing our square footage."

Permeo Base5 is the only remote access solution with comprehensive on demand endpoint protection that goes beyond host system integrity and offers advanced information controls for managed and unmanaged endpoints. Permeo provides a multi-layered endpoint security solution that includes host integrity checks, malware protection, advanced keylogger detection, browser security and information controls to protect UCH. With Permeo, UCH can satisfy compliance and information protection requirements with a single solution.

"Healthcare organizations are faced with the increasing challenge to not only protect private information, but also provide extensive security controls for unmanaged access to electronic records and other applications by patients, partners and remote workers," said Mark Elliott, vice president of product management at Permeo Technologies. "Permeo Base5 delivers a simple, on demand session-based deployment that extends UCH's secure connectivity and meets HIPAA guidelines. With Permeo, UCH eliminates any mobile access concerns, helping standardize and improve its IT management processes."

About Permeo

Permeo Technologies, a leading provider of on demand information security, provides a comprehensive remote access and information protection solution that safely extends corporate applications to mobile workers, business partners and customers. Our approach eliminates the risk of information leakage at the endpoint through a cost-effective, easy-to-use solution. Since 2001, Permeo has helped more than 250 of the world's largest companies secure their information and protect their assets beyond the borders of their enterprise. More information about Permeo can be found at www.permeo.com.

About Upper Chesapeake Health

Established in 1984, Upper Chesapeake Health is a not-for-profit health organization based in Harford County. The organization owns and operates Harford Memorial Hospital, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation and Upper Chesapeake/St. Joseph Home Care, Harford Hospice. One of the largest private employers in Harford County, UCH employs more than 2,500 team members.