Tufts Health Plan: Keeping Data Security Healthy

We are THRILLED to share our latest customer news with you all: Tufts Health Plan Selects Axis Technology's Data Masking Solution Top-ranked New England health plan provider automates data security by deploying DMsuite™ Boston, MA, June 6, 2013 – Axis Technology Software, LLC, the leading provider of enterprise data masking solutions, today announced that Tufts Health Plan has chosen DMsuite to automate the protection of its sensitive customer data. As one of the few health plan providers that maintains certification with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Level 3 Capability Maturity Model, Tufts Health Plan recognized that an automated masking solution is a critical component. In particular, the company determined DMsuite was the ideal fit for protecting our subscribers data while meeting its development goals. “Healthcare organizations must be vigilant about protecting data,” said Deb Stevens, CSO of Tufts Health Plan. “Our subscribers trust us to protect them; the selection of DMsuite helps us keep and exceed that commitment." “Many healthcare organizations are making significant investments in information technology right now," said Mike Logan, President of Axis Technology Software, LLC. "These companies need a way to address data privacy issues without stopping their progress. Automating the data masking process makes it safe and easy to remove the risks of a data breach, enabling businesses to focus on developing the highest quality software necessary to manage a modern healthcare company, or any company for that matter." DMsuite™ automates the data masking process, making it safe and cost-effective to provide development, quality assurance, and third-party testing environments with the highest quality data possible. Production data, with real customer information, is never accessible within DMsuite™ or anywhere in the target environment, making DMsuite™ the most secure and effective data masking offering on the market today. It maintains referential integrity across business lines and different platforms such as Oracle, MSSQL, Cache, Hadoop, and file formats that include VSAM, Excel, delimited, and XML. DMsuite™ can be used straight out of the box, offering self-service provisioning functionality. DMsuite™ is Web-based and its central point of control enables easy operation, administration, logging, and auditing. About Axis Technology Software, LLC Axis Technology Software, LLC is a premier provider of data masking software and solutions for the enterprise. The company’s flagship data masking platform, DMsuite™ is a product that profiles, provisions, and masks data with no programming required. Companies from the healthcare, financial services, retail and government industries rely on DMsuite™ to secure their non-production data, including Walgreens/ TakeCareHealth, Tufts Health Plan, The Capital Group, MEDai, Morgan Stanley, and TDAmeritrade. Axis Technology Software, LLC is headquartered in Boston, MA. To learn more, visit www.axistechnologyllc.com. About Tufts Health Plan Tufts Health Plan is a nonprofit organization nationally recognized for its commitment to providing innovative, high-quality health care coverage. The plan offers members and employers an array of health management programs, which support evidence-based approaches to health and wellness. Quality is a hallmark of the plan: its HMO and POS are ranked second in the nation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)*. Its Tufts Medicare Preferred HMO earned a 4.5 star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for 2013. Network Health, a subsidiary of Tufts Health Plan, is ranked third in the country for Medicaid plans, according to NCQA Medicaid Health Insurance Plan Rankings 2012-2013. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Tufts Health Plan also serves members in Rhode Island. Visit us at www.tuftshealthplan.com. *** And in other news, if you are going to be at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit next week, visit us in Booth #17 and learn more about why companies like Tufts entrust their data security needs to DMsuite and the Axis team.