HIPA and Network Configs

[der.hans]

Am 04. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Kevin Brown so:

> I remember months back some members of PLUG talking about HIPA regulation=
s
> and things like hospitals having to be compliant due to the need for
> privacy and security of patient medical records.

Look at the GNUMed project if you're going into that space.

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/

Don't know what it's supposed to be doing, but it might be pertinent for
your company.

> The concerns are with allowing 802.11 wireless access to our network and
> using Wireless bridges to link up some labs that are near each other.
> Does anyone have any advice/pointers that could help?

If they're using the wireless points to connect two locations, then you can
tunnel traffic, just like you would for home<=3D>business VPN accross the N=
et.

David Uhlman suggested an authentication mechanism during his wireless
presentation a few months ago. I don't remember what it is and don't know
where my notes are. I think ASU is using it or something similar. You'd kno=
w
more about that than I do ;-).

ciao,

der.hans
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