MerlinM2M has announced that its Smart-Authentication Platform helps users manage their M2M solutions more safely and efficiently to provide security for healthcare companies by consolidating some of the work now being done at different levels, according to a company press release.
M2M technology supports wired or wireless communications between machines.
The press release reports that, according to Yankee Group research, “It takes between four and six supply-chain partners to develop and manage just one M2M solution, which is time-consuming and costly. “ Where MerlinM2M comes in is consolidating the “authentication and data protection process,” helping companies to reduce the time and expense “development and deployment for M2M partners on the back-end.”
Now avaiable to MerlinCryption partners are a variety of new sources to their authentication tool box. Through the company’s “new dynamic authentication method,” companies will find it much easier to “detect risk of system compromise,” according to the press release.
The press release states that “this new fourth dynamic category not only expands OEM developer options, but also provides the advantage to choose, change, and increase or decrease” what’s called ‘temporary’ and constant factors, on demand, allowing M2Ms to “dictate the level of simplicity or complexity for their authentication process, as desired.”
According to the press release, MerlinM2M, The Smart-World's Smart-Encryption™ “secures its authentication platform with MerlinCryption’s 2008 bits to 2 GB scalable keys.”
The encryption complies with HIPAA and OFAC regulations, and is BIS /NSA-approved for export. The platform also incorporates an optional SHA-2, a set of encryption hash standards and memory scrub, a way to prevent “soft errors” in the installed memory over time.
“Because SHA hash cannot be reversed, MerlinCryption employs powerful encryption to the process, allowing the dynamic authentication process to be changed, as desired by the M2M user,” according to the press release. OEMs can also customize each encryption engine, “which is unique to their machine portfolio and not interoperable with any standard or custom version,” the press release states.
According to the press release, the platform is “run by a scripted controller, called MerlinWrap, that essentially ‘wraps’ the authentication process into a tightly customized and impenetrable sequence of execution.”
Why are authentication and encryption so important? According tohe increasing complexity of email implementation options and government security regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), create unique challenges for the effective use of email by healthcare providers.” an intermedia.net white paper, “T
The white paper notes that as the healthcare world comes to depend more on email and other electronic delivery of data like health records, healthcare organizations must consistently use them “in a way that will ensure government-mandated compliance.”
Edited by
Rich Steeves
