HIPAA Resources
–Privacy Official – Glenda Folse 504-988-7739
–Security Official – Leo Tran 504-247-1691 (security website)
Now, instead of just fear and beauracracy, here's some actual security and privacy products:
- For Windows
- WinPT manages your PGP keyrings and it can encrypt files (like an excel spreadsheet) and the contents of your clipboard (copy-encrypt-paste)
- Once that's installed, you can add FireGPG, which integrates this functionality into Firefox, making it absurdly easy to encrypt in any web-based email application. It even provides buttons in Gmail. WinSCP provides the ability to securely transfer files between computers, like your laptop or blackberry and your desktop at work.
- For Mac
- Mac Gnu Privacy Guard manages your PGP keyrings and provides several additional tools, all in usual, good Mac taste.
- Once that's installed, you can add FireGPG, which integrates this functionality into Firefox, making it absurdly easy to encrypt in any web-based email application. It even provides buttons in Gmail. CyberDuck allows you to securely transfer files between computers, like your laptop or blackberry, and your desktop.
- For Linux
- GnuPG comes installed and there are various key management GUIs
- You can add FireGPG, which integrates this functionality into Firefox, making it absurdly easy to encrypt in any web-based email application. It even provides buttons in Gmail. You need no additional FTP software to navigate in Linux: most of the file browsers have this functionality built in. Just type sftp://username@server.name:port
If you want the latest word on internet threats, or just want to scare yourself into good security practices, check the internet storm center. If you're feeling particularly plucky, you can get a better feel for your security environment, and maybe reevaluate your own security practices by mapping your commonly used networks with nmap and examining the network's traffic with wireshark. Would you cross the street without checking traffic? Why are you sending your passwords?
If all that's just not enough, then check out the tri-annual Top 100 Network Security Tools put out by nmap's Fyodor.
