Yubico and TrueCrypt protect sensitive data in US healthcare project
MOSBIRT is a substance abuse prevention project that will screen up to 200,000 Missourians in various medical settings for risky substance use behaviors. The organization has developed a computer application to guide health coaches in emergency departments and family medicine clinics in Springfield, Columbia, and St. Louis Missouri. This is all done on tablet computers synchronized to a central database.
“Because of the sensitive nature of the data the hard drives are fully encrypted with TrueCrypt. Our coaches must use their YubiKey with a static password and an additional string to unlock the computers to allow the OS to boot. We expect to serve at least 80,000 Missourians with this system in the next few years” says Matthew G. Hile, Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Missouri Institute of Mental Health.
About MOSBIRT
www.mosbirt.org
MOSBIRT is a substance abuse prevention project funded by a five year $12.3 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The project is conducted jointly by the University of Missouri’s Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the ADA division of the Missouri Department of Mental Health.
About Truecrypt
www.truecrypt.org
TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. The software is used for real-time on-the-fly encryption and can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, or a device-hosted encrypted volume on either an individual partition or an entire storage device.
About Yubico
Yubico is the leading provider of easy-to-use two-factor authentication. The company’s flagship product, the YubiKey, uniquely combines driverless USB hardware with open source software. More than a million users in 95 countries rely on the YubiKey for online identity protection with simple and secure access to computers, networks and online services, including individuals, e-governments and Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2007, Yubico is privately held with offices in California, Sweden and UK. For more information, please visit yubico.com.