Top security analytics provider enters healthcare market with leading global HIT consulting firm
Jacksonville, Florida – February 24, 2016 – The HCI Group, an industry-leading healthcare IT services consultancy, today announced its partnership with Securonix, a leading data security firm that provides actionable security intelligence. The partnership is designed to bolster HCI’s adaptable security capabilities in a range of environments. The companies will demonstrate their enhanced security service platform and provide more information for prospective clients during HIMSS16 at the HCI Group’s booth (#6832).
“While HIPAA compliance has traditionally been the standard for the HIT industry, we recognized the need to offer our clients specific products and services more richly focused on security,” said Ricky Caplin, CEO, HCI Group. “This partnership with Securonix addresses that need for added security, enables us to develop our client relationships with a strong level of trust, and allows us to offer the industry’s best security-focused solutions.”
With a series of recently announced mergers and acquisitions, the HCI Group continues to grow in markets across the world. That, combined with the fact that security is often cited as one of the three biggest concerns for CIOs in the healthcare industry, is why the HCI Group sought to build out its security services and offerings.
Securonix Chief Scientist Igor Baikalov called 2015 “the year of the healthcare hack” for good reason. The top three healthcare breaches alone impacted nearly 100 million individuals. The volume of last year’s sensitive data breaches was a wake-up call for healthcare organizations to address the threat and catch up to other more mature sectors like financial services.
“Securonix has been successful at delivering purpose-built, security analytics solutions to enterprises across industries for years, and has been looking to accelerate its growth and expansion into the healthcare industry with the right partner,” said Sachin Nayyar, Co-founder and CEO of Securonix. “Given HCI’s solid track record and dominant position in the healthcare IT industry, this partnership is a natural fit for both companies.”
Perhaps the most important differentiator for Securonix is its proactive security reporting and analysis ability. Users of Securonix products are alerted to problems within 40 minutes, a markedly better timeframe than virtually every other HIT security provider. Alerts today generally are provided in a daily security report.
HCI Group and Securonix’s partnership began on February 1 and is effective immediately.
About The HCI Group
The HCI Group is a global leader in healthcare IT consulting with headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida. and international headquarters in the United Kingdom. It offers a broad scope of healthcare IT solutions in more than 10 countries from North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia, helping healthcare organizations plan, implement and sustain enterprise information technology systems.
Its services include enterprise IT system implementation and training, specialty service lines in optimisation, clinical adoption, integration and testing, go-live and advisory services. Learn more about the HCI Group by visiting http://thehcigroup.com/
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