Why are we pushing to have ALL laptops encrypted?
The decision has been made between the Senior Vice President of Health Sciences, the U of U Office of Legal Counsel, and University IT to pursue a more aggressive laptop encryption standard, requiring both clinical and non-clinical laptops to be encrypted, including both organization owned and personal laptop systems. This initiative is intended to prevent future breaches of protected health information, as well as protect more proprietary HCI research data, and administrative data.
This phase of the project includes encrypting USB "thumb" drives and external storage devices, such as Apple Airport Time Capsule, MyBook and other types of external storage drives.
This phase will also include additional data handling training for all HCI employees (Hospital, Research, Administrative) and a web-based attestation.
