TIP: Ensure physical safeguards on laptops
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, July 5, 2010
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Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of tips in HIPAA Weekly Advisor on laptop security. The excerpts are courtesy of the HCPro, Inc. newsletter, Briefings on HIPAA.
Don’t forget physical safeguards. Don’t leave laptop computers unattended, unsecured, or visible in an unoccupied vehicle, warns John C. Parmigiani, MS, BES, president of John C. Parmigiani & Associates, LLC, in Ellicott City, MD.
Consider using alarms to prevent the theft of laptop computers from desks. Organizations should consider securing laptop computers to desks or other furniture with a cable lock where possible, advises Daniel F. Gottlieb, Esq., a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, in Chicago.
Also, prohibit employees from checking luggage containing laptop computers on airplanes.
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