Securing Wireless Networks for HIPAA Compliance

The intent of this paper is to discuss wireless networks and why they are useful to organizations, namely healthcare organizations. Once we have established the foundation for why we need wireless, we will cover the vulnerabilities and problems with wireless networks. We will then take a tour of recent laws that govern healthcare organizations, and how these laws affect wireless networks. After this overview a more thorough interpretation of the laws will be presented with details on what each part means in relation to wireless. Our next step will be to take a network and work through any current problems. We will then apply different technologies and configuration changes to that network in order to provide security that will meet the requirements set forth previously. We will then examine briefly a snapshot of the network after our security implementation. Finally we will sum up the paper with a conclusion of what we have found through this case study.