Gavin O’Brien: Keeping health records secure on mobile devices

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Gavin O’Brien: Keeping health records secure on mobile devices

People use mobile devices for almost everything nowadays — sometimes even for viewing sensitive information. It's not just the intelligence community that nee...

July 29, 2015 8:46 am

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People use mobile devices for almost everything nowadays — sometimes even for viewing sensitive information. It's not just the intelligence community that needs to keep its devices protected. Medical providers need a middle ground between security and convenience as well. To that end, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a new set of rules to help health care providers keep their mobile devices as secure as possible. Gavin O'Brien is a project manager at NCCoE. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review the new guidelines.