| Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, | | | | The Howard County General Hospital is a leader in |
| Maryland, has selected SanDisk’s Cruzer® | | | | adopting new healthcare and IT solutions, and once |
| Enterprise secure USB flash drives and Central | | | | again is leading the frey by turning to SanDisk to help |
| Management & Control (CMC) server software | | | | create a secure mobile data environment. Looking |
| to protect highly confidential medical and organizational | | | | beyond security, HCGH will appreciate how Central |
| data. | | | | Management and Control can increase the IT |
| Part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine health care | | | | staff’s management and analysis into how the |
| system, Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is a | | | | drives are used. |
| comprehensive medical center providing services to | | | | SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drives protect all files |
| more than 165,000 people a year, with a staff of 1,700 | | | | stored on the drive with advanced hardware-based |
| full-time and part-time employees, as well as more | | | | 256-bit AES encryption. Users are also required to |
| than 800 physicians and other allied health | | | | create a complex password during the set-up process. |
| professionals. | | | | The combination of encryption and password |
| HCGH uses SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise the secure | | | | protection makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized |
| USB flash drive to provide on request to managers in | | | | users to access data if the drive is lost or stolen. |
| all departments of the hospital, and subsequently | | | | Cruzer Enterprise is also fast, with read speed of 24 |
| purchased SanDisk CMC software to manage those | | | | megabytes (MB) per second and write speed of 20 |
| drives through the hospital’s network. | | | | MB/sec1. |
| There is not much more sensitive information than | | | | Central Management and Control for Secure USB |
| patient records, so ensuring data security one of the | | | | Flash Drives |
| highest priorities here in health care. The SanDisk | | | | SanDisk Central Management and Control (CMC) |
| Cruzer Enterprise drive was selected due to its files | | | | software provides complete lifecycle management for |
| encryption and password protection technologies. The | | | | all secure USB flash drives, including forced USB drive |
| CMC software has been implemented so IT staff gain | | | | password encryption, password recovery and |
| greater control over data stored on these secure USB | | | | renewal through the network, remote termination of |
| flash drives, as well as the ability to remotely supervise | | | | lost drives, central back-up and restore, and central |
| day-to-day tasks such as password management and | | | | usage tracking. |
| backup. | | | | At the end of the day, this means data is never lost |
| Secure USB Flash Drive Delivers Healthy Peace of | | | | just because the hardware has been lost. In the event |
| Mind | | | | of a lost drive, the IT administrators can instantly |
| Confidential Medical And Organizational Data Now | | | | provision a replacement flash drive with user files |
| Secured With SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise Secure USB | | | | stored on the network. |
| Flash Drives, Managed By SanDisk CMC Software. | | | | |