Another Kindly Ops Success Story:
PDA
Improving security and reducing costs while maintaining HIPAA compliance
Who is PDA?
PDA Makes software for the recovery & empowerment of people diagnosed with mental illness. CommonGround is an award-winning product for shared decision making in psychiatric settings. In the US $32.5 billion a year is spent on the treatment of schizophrenia alone. Most medication management decisions in psychiatry involve medications with similar efficacy profiles but complex risk-benefit trade-offs. CommonGround helps people work through concerns before non-adherence becomes a problem.
Challenge | Solution | |
HIPAA requires risk analysis & the AWS Shared Responsibility model requires customers to own configuration. | Kindly Ops followed the AWS Security Audit protocol to verify infrastructure was architected for HIPAA compliance. | |
PDA needed architecture guidance on removing single points of failure while remaining HIPAA compliant. | EC2 Instance Recovery, Managed NAT Gateway, and Auto Scaling Groups addressed single points of failure. | |
Tight control was needed around permissions. | Route 53 and AWS Shield reduced DDoS risks. | |
Network security was too expensive and DNS DDoS attacks had affected the customers. | CloudTrail alarms provided real time notifications of changes in user accounts and firewall settings. |