SOX & HIPAA Compliance
Large file transfer, made simple and secure
Is your company file transfer system compliant with SOX, Graham Leach Bilely Act, or how about HIPAA? If you hesitated in replying, that’s not a good sign.
Regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 21 CFR Part 11 and, most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), place significant requirements on companies regarding who was sent what and when.
- HIPAA requires that companies prove that only the intended information was shared or exchanged
- The FDA requires that administrative controls are in place when electronic systems and records are used in place of paper or manual systems
- Sarbanes-Oxley requires that business processes are auditable
FTP and SFTP fall short for compliance
Conventional FTP does not maintain a record of all transactions. Business processes that rely on FTP to deliver information and other digital assets are not auditable and thus are not compliant with security and compliance regulations.
Although SFTP provides a technically secure file transfer solution, security requirements for most enterprises extend beyond technical requirements like data encryption. These requirements usually include the need to authenticate the recipient and the ability to automatically manage each file and account life-cycle so that no confidential information is left exposed and no unauthorized user access for sensitive and confidential data takes place.
Accellion enables compliance
Organizations around the world in different industries are using Accellion products to implement secure file transfer processes that meet their regulatory and security compliance needs.
