The Augsburg security gateway manufacturer LINOGATE is launching a firewall for large and group practices. The "Praxis-Wächter" Internet firewall, which is already installed in many medical practices, is now suitable for use in environments with higher performance requirements.
This means that the "firewall for doctors" is also suitable for practices that are equipped with far more than 10 Internet-enabled devices.
IT security guideline § 75b SGB V of the KBV prescribes an internet firewall
Since April 2021, every medical practice has had to be equipped with an internet firewall in order to comply with BSI basic protection and European data protection. Because in the event of a violation, especially the latter, practice operators face drastic fines.
IT baseline protection for large practices - a question of performance
Even before guideline § 75b came into effect, practices with up to 10 computers were able to protect themselves effectively against cyber attacks by using the “Praxis-Wächer” firewall. However, since the completeness of the scans is particularly important when checking incoming and outgoing data streams, the previously available version of the practice monitor was not recommended for practices with more than 10 Internet-enabled devices. Because in order to reliably ward off cyber attacks, all data streams are routed through several security modules and only released when all checks have been carried out - and that's where performance is required.
Current cyber threat "log4j" doesn't stand a chance
The safety structure of the Praxis-Wächter includes a number of proven open-source modules. There is no activated "log4j" on any of these security modules. This makes the practice guard unassailable for all hacking methods that want to use the logging4java services. However, if an attacker wants to infiltrate a computer in the practice that has the logf4j module, this can be prevented by the protective functions "reverse proxy" and "intrusion prevention system (IPS)", which are components of the security equipment of the practice guardian are.
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About LINOGATE
Linogate GmbH, based in Augsburg, is the manufacturer of the DEFENDO Internet Security Gateway series, with which small to medium-sized companies (5 to 250 workstations) can be securely connected to the Internet. DEFENDO presents itself as an extended UTM solution with firewall, various proxies, intrusion prevention, VPN server, own Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), virus and spam protection, mail server, mail encryption and web client - everything controlled via an administration interface. The product series is offered as an appliance on optimized hardware platforms or as a software license for operation as a virtual machine on VMware.