Align user access privileges with asset value, experts say

摘要

Leaving the office desk a little cluttered at the end of a busy workday seems like a typical picture in any organization. But at Toronto-based Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) that habit could earn an employee a warning memo the next day. That's because as the agency mandated by the Ontario government to provide secure and reliable electronic communications to the province's healthcare sector, SSHA cannot afford to have a weak link in its security chain. "When the agency was being envisioned and constructed, privacy and security were the foundation components of everything that we do," said Roman Olarnyk, SSHA's chief information officer.