Privacy & Security

Governments, commercial businesses, and individuals are increasingly storing information in electronic form. This medium allows a number of advantages over physical storage: storage of information is more compact, transfer of information is seamless, and accessing information is almost instantaneous. The ability to use information more efficiently has resulted in a rapid increase in the value of information, with businesses in a number of industry verticals recognizing information as their most valuable asset. However, with the electronic revolution, information faces new and potentially more damaging security threats. Information in electronic form can be stolen or altered and it is much easier to intercept electronic communication than its paper-based counterparts.

Prescient International's unique solution  provides an air-tight environment to ensure complete privacy of information stored in electronic format and for the security of information through communication, from within and beyond the organizations involved.

  Addressing Privacy: Protection of Data Within the System

Prescient’s Encrypted Relational Database Model (ERDM)™ represents a method of database design and management that ensures privacy and confidentiality of information, effectively de-coupling information that could identify an individual. Relationships between data elements are secured and protected. No unauthorized persons, including Systems and Database Administrators, will ever be able to compile confidential information on any person, such as tombstone data (e.g. date of birth, etc.), which could then be used to identify an individual. This solution prevents unauthorized access ensuring that personal data is protected, while reinforcing the fundamental tenets of legislation enforced more and more by authorities.

Read more on Prescient's ERDM ™ and  Privacy and Security in Relational Database Models (pdf).

  Addressing Security: Protection of Data Transmission

Network transmission today includes e-mail, data, fax, voice, and wireless communications, which are sent to their destinations as a collection of discrete packets of information over public or private networks. As more and more companies, individuals, and governments exchange confidential and personal information with one another over networks, the necessity for a new breed of Internet security technology has become an e-business imperative.

Prescient's encryption technology, e²Sec™ was developed in response to growing client and industry desire for superior data and communications security. The technology allows clients and businesses to create, transparently, a Dynamic Virtual Private Network (DVPN) without the complexity and expense of Virtual Private Network (VPN) hardware and software. Furthermore, because of the portability of the technology, it can be used on any hardware platform and Operating System. This device-independent solution is designed to provide complete end-to-end security across telecom and computer networks via the use of next-generation encryption technology.

Current key-based encryption systems require the sender and receiver to exchange keys in order to verify and unlock information, making them inherently vulnerable to outside attack. A deceptive hacker could potentially intercept one's personal encryption-key, compromising the efficacy of encrypted transmissions. e²Sec™ is an indeterministic "silent-key" protection system. Our encryption technology is undecipherable - a truly Prescient Solution, it does not use visible keys or passwords, and can be implemented comprehensively into any existing or future network — including wireless networks — allowing complete security of transmissions.

Read more on Prescient's e² Sec™ Technology.

Organizations often take a reactive approach to security rather than a proactive approach, implementing safeguards for information protection after security has been breached. Prescient believes security should be integrated from the early stages of inception through to the implementation of organizational systems and not as an added layer afterthought.

Prescient’s Solution is complete and can be applied to any business vertical to ensure the highest quality security of data and information.

These technologies are being used in Prescient’s Electronic Health Management System (EHMS™) to protect sensitive patient information while optimizing health care services to patients. Read about Privacy and Security issues in the Health industry.