Security
Software that is like a digital immune system for your computer.
What is Antivirus (AV)?
A powerful lock for your entire computer's hard drive.
What is Bitlocker?
The person or organization who officially owns a specific website address.
What is domain registar or domain owner?
A U.S. law that sets strict rules for how healthcare providers and related businesses must protect sensitive patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
It's a design principle that advises that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated. The core idea is to prioritize simplicity in design and communication to ensure clarity and effectiveness.
KISS - What is Keep It Simple, Stupid, or more politely, Keep It Super Simple?
Regularly giving your software and operating system necessary updates and fixes.
What is patching?
Acts like a security guard for your computer or network, checking all incoming and outgoing internet traffic.
What is a firewall?
An email authentication method that uses a digital signature attached to outgoing emails.
What is DKIM?
Digital versions of a patient's paper chart.
What is an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) or EHR (Electronic Health Record)?
This statement highlights the quality of a system's output is directly dependent on the quality of its input.
What is garbage in, garbage out?
An advanced digital security guard that Privia uses for your emails and company data, specializing in stopping tricky online threats.
What is Proofpoint?
Data or traffic that is leaving a specific network or system.
What is Egress?
An email authentication method that allows a domain owner to specify which mail servers are authorized to send emails on behalf of their domain.
What is SPF?
A common language or a set of rules that healthcare computer systems use to talk to each other and share patient information.
What is HL7?
A meaning to avoid trying to solve an impossibly large or overly complex problem all at once and instead focus on smaller, more manageable parts.
What is Don't Boil the Ocean?
A thorough health check-up for your company's digital systems and data.
What is a Security Risk Assessment?
The company that gives you access to the internet, like your cable or phone company.
What is an ISP, or Internet Service Provider?
This adds a layer of security to the DNS system by digitally signing DNS records. This signature allows a resolver (your computer's DNS client) to verify that the DNS data it receives is authentic and has not been tampered with during transit.
What is DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) ?
The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health education, and public health.
What is Telehealth / Telemedicine?
This is a high-level perspective that focuses on the overall picture or strategy without getting bogged down in specific details.
What is 10,000 or 50,000-foot view?
This is a special type of insurance designed to protect businesses from the significant costs associated with data breaches or other cyberattacks.
What is Cyber Liability Insurance?
A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate and interact with each other.
What is an API?
An XML-based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP).
What is SAML?
Any protected health information (PHI) that is created, stored, transmitted, or received in an electronic format.
What is ePHI (Electronic Protected Health Information) ?
This is a business idiom that means to take a closer look at a specific topic, idea, or issue to explore it in more detail.
What is Let's double-click on that?