Magazine honors the best employers in Massachusetts

Waltham, Mass. – December 2, 2021 — Imprivata, the digital identity company for healthcare and beyond, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the 14th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. The Top Places to Work 2021 issue publishes online at Globe.com/TopPlaces on the night of December 1 and in Globe Magazine on December 5.

The concept of zero trust has been around for nearly two decades, but it is only recently that the security model has caught on and is now one of the hottest trends in cybersecurity. A Microsoft report found that 90% of security decision-makers are now familiar with the concept, up from 20% just one year ago. But adoption is still a challenge as organizations rethink how they handle identity management.

As organizations across all sectors face an increasing volume of cyber-attacks, CISOs must continue to perform a careful balancing act – protecting their organization’s systems while implementing security measures that don’t overly inconvenience or disrupt employees. Nowhere is this truer than in the realm of user authentication and password management. If authentication requirements are too simple, cyber-criminals can easily overcome them. However, too complex, and employees will simply ignore or try to bypass them. After all, it’s human nature to prioritize convenience over security.

Striking the right balance between complex passwords, security and workflow efficiency is a big challenge for healthcare CISOs and CIOs. The rising number of publicly reported breaches shows the need to balance all three. Healthcare security leaders no longer can rely upon just firewalls to protect the four walls of their organizations. For example, they need to control access to customer data, systems and other information at each point of entry – each device and each user – with complex passwords that are much harder to hack.