IT executives hoping to avoid brand-damaging thefts of stored data like those experienced by AOL, Bank of America and Citigroup are turning to an age-old security strategy: encryption. Take Vincent Fusca.As operations director at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., he is responsible for 7T bytes of Medicare patient information tied to more than $5 million in research grants. "Under HIPAA compliance, we need to make sure that we have the most secure means possible to hold and utilize the data in support of research," Fusca says."If I lost this data, I'd be roadkill."
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