HIPAA Compliant Server Hosting

HIPAA-Compliant Application Hosting

The applications healthcare companies are running are frequently incredibly resource-intensive, requiring a dedicated server imply to operate effectively. This server, whether a dedicated or virtual system, needs to be both secure and compliant. That’s doubly true in cases where the company is a healthcare application service provider, which routinely manages patient data from a wide array of firms.

Once again, Atlantic.Net™ is fully-equipped to deliver.

Our design includes an application server that can be adapted to your needs whether your architecture is physical or virtualized. Even better, all Atlantic.Net application servers are protected with a full suite of security components, including a Fully-Managed Firewall appliance, an encrypted VPN with an optional GeoTrust SSL, and a powerful Intrusion Prevention System with proactive monitoring.

HIPAA-Compliant Database Hosting

Perhaps the most frequent reason for healthcare providers to look into hosting services is the operation of databases in order to store patient and organizational data. Our engineers will provide you with whatever format of database best meets your needs - and it’ll be affordable no matter what your choice. Whether you choose Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, we've got you covered when it comes to databases.

Our HIPAA-compliant database security incorporates our fully-managed firewall appliance, an encrypted VPN with SSL technology, and our intrusion detection system. Further, everything we do that concerns the hosting plan is considerate of compliance implications; we honor regulatory parameters at all times.

Here are just a few benefits of choosing to host your database with Atlantic.Net:

• All data exists in one defined place
• You can customize security specific to the database
• Organization of the data can make administration more efficient
• Responses to data requests are streamlined
• Multiple users can retrieve data simultaneously.

HIPAA Compliant Managed & Unmanaged Hosting

In addition to managed/unmanaged dedicated servers, we offer virtualization hosting solutions with the following hypervisors:

• Hyper-V Private Virtualization Hosting – Microsoft Hyper-V
• KVM Private Virtualization Hosting – Proxmox VE
• VMware Private Virtualization Hosting

Managed HIPAA Security

Our fully-managed and compliant security allows us to consistently keep track of your security, allowing you to stay focused on your core competencies.

Intrusion Prevention System

Our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) works off of a continually-revised database of malware and other potential hazards, and features customizable security infrastructure that allows us to tweak it to your specific needs. We routinely test and re-test all components of our IPS, and allow upgrades on an as-needed basis. Threats are monitored and prevented in real-time.

Our IPS also features a powerful Firewall Appliance which connects to each interface, monitoring everything from CPU usage to response rate for gateways. For those of you who require traffic shaping and simultaneous connection limitations, both are easily configurable.

All of this is available at minimal cost - meaning you’ll have access to world-class security at a price that won’t leave you tapped out.

Anti-Malware Protection:

One of the stipulations for HIPAA is that healthcare organizations must utilize an antimalware application to remain compliant. Atlantic.Net's engineers trust Trend Micro Anti-Malware to protect clients from malicious software.

Trend Micro™ Deep Security Suite – Key Features:

Virtual Environments: Preserve performance and consolidation ratios with comprehensive agentless security built specifically to maximize protection for virtual environments.

Optimized for Server Environments: Optimizes security operations to avoid antivirus storms commonly seen in full system scanning and pattern updates from traditional security capabilities.

Virtual patching: Shield vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, eliminating the operational pains of emergency patching, frequent patch cycles, and costly system downtime.

Compliance: Demonstrate compliance with a number of regulatory requirements including PCI DSS 3.0, HIPAA, HITECH , FISMA/NIST , NERC , SSAE 18, and more. Learn more about Trend Micro Deep Security.

Trend Micro™ Deep Security Suite – Deep Security Modules:

Trend Micro Deep Security Anti-Malware

• Delivers an anti-malware agent to extend protection to physical, virtual, and HIPAA compliant cloud servers.
• Optimizes security operations to avoid antivirus storms commonly seen in full system scans and pattern updates from traditional security capabilities.
• Protects from sophisticated attacks in virtual environments by isolating malware from critical operating system and security components.

Trend Micro Deep Security Network Security Package

• Examines all incoming and outgoing traffic for protocol deviations, policy violations, or content that signals an attack.
• Automatically protects against known but unpatched vulnerabilities by virtually patching (shielding) them from an unlimited number of exploits, pushing protection to thousands of servers in minutes without a system reboot.
• Decreases the attack surface of physical, cloud, and virtual servers with fine-grained filtering, policies per network, and location awareness for all IP-based protocols and frame types.
• Includes out-of-the-box vulnerability protection for all major operating systems and over 100 applications, including database, web, email, and FTP servers.

Trend Micro Deep Security Integrity Monitoring

• Monitors critical operating system and application files, such as directories, registry keys, and values, to detect and report malicious and unexpected changes in real time.
• Uses Intel TPM/TXT technology to perform hypervisor integrity monitoring for any unauthorized changes to the hypervisor, thereby extending security and compliance to the hypervisor layer.
• Reduces administrative overhead with trusted event tagging that automatically replicates actions for similar events across the entire data center.

Trend Micro Deep Security Log Inspection

• Collects and analyzes operating system and application logs in over 100 log file formats, identifying suspicious behavior, security events, and administrative events across your data center.
• Assists with compliance (PCI DSS section 10.6) to optimize the identification of important security events buried in multiple log entries.
• Forwards events to SIEM system or centralized logging server for correlation, reporting, and archiving.

Dedicated Firewalls & Encrypted VPN

In addition to our IPS system, Atlantic.Net provides a powerful set of managed firewall components, designed with optimal affordability and security in mind. Learn more about our managed firewall service here. We’re able to create out-of-the-box solutions for just about any configuration, including Linux servers or even Cisco ASA Firewalls. Reporting maintains historical information on every aspect of your system related to network security, including CPU utilization, firewall states, WAN gateways, and traffic shaping.

By default, we deploy an OpenBSD stateful firewall that allows you to granularly control your states. This allows you to limit states per host, new connections per second, state timeout, state type, and simultaneous client connections. It allows the handling of multiple states, as well. Have a look for yourself:

• Keep state – Works with all protocols. Default for all rules.
• Modulate state – Works only with TCP. Atlantic.Net’s Firewall Appliance will generate strong Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs) on behalf of the host.
• Synproxy state – Proxies incoming TCP connections to help protect servers from spoofed TCP SYN floods. This option includes the functionality of “keep state” and “modulate state” combined.
• None – Does not keep any state entries for the traffic. This is very rarely desirable, but is available because it can be useful under some limited circumstances.

It also offers a number of state table optimization options:

• Normal – The default algorithm.
• High latency – Useful for high latency links, such as satellite connections. Expires idle connections later than normal.
• Aggressive – Expires idle connections more quickly. Uses hardware resources more efficiently, but can drop legitimate connections.
• Conservative – Tries to avoid dropping legitimate connections at the expense of increased memory usage and CPU utilization.

Last but certainly not least, our dedicated firewalls are connected to a management service that’ll help you ease the burden of monitoring.

This management service allows us to help you implement switches that can be used to set up encrypted VPN connections (we support OpenVPN, IPsec, and PPTP by default) to and from your hosted servers. HIPAA compliance requirements are kept central to the entire process, from management to maintenance to troubleshooting. It’s efficient, too - we realize that your time is important, so we stay with you every step of the way to make compliance a breeze.

NAT

All Atlantic.Net clients by default have access to our Network Address Translation Utility, designed to allow them to quickly and easily shape how their network functions. It features easy configuration for port forwarding (including ranges and the capacity to support multiple public IPS), outbound NAT, and advanced load balancing for both inbound and outbound connections. Integrated with the firewall appliance, it can be readily set up with full redundancy thanks to pfsync and CARP from OpenBSD.

HIPAA Managed Backup

The rapid growth of data, shrinking backup windows and budgets, scaling issues, and multiplatform environments currently in place in the healthcare industry all present significant challenges for server administrators. Atlantic.Net's experts can help, whether you're looking to back up your HIPAA compliant cloud hosting servers or your HIPAA compliant dedicated servers. Through our powerful Server Backup Manager - a fast, affordable platform for both Linux and Windows - we perform backups either daily or in real-time for each of our HIPAA clients, whichever they request. Incremental backups are done at the block level for advanced speed, and HIPAA hosting clients have full control over when, where, and how their data is stored. Data is by default kept in our HIPAA compliant SSAE 18 SOC 1 SOC 2 (formerly SSAE 16) data center, secured through on-site measures along with a suite of powerful and robust HIPAA compliant security software.

In addition to a host of customization options, the hosting backup platform is also equipped with robust monitoring tools, portable backups, point-in-time snapshots, and the ability to perform a bare-metal restore at any point in time. We support HIPAA compliant backups for the majority of virtualized platforms, as well as a wide range of SQL servers and databases.