With all the security and regulatory considerations coming down, fully encrypting your dbase and ePHI is a big concern of ours. After talking with AC Support for awhile this morning, they stated that drive and server encryption is possible and they have confirmed that Amazing Charts does not seem to have any problems working with an Opne-Source encryption tool caled "TrueCrypt"; however nobody knew if the same was true for using a popular Microsoft product such as BitLocker.
My questions then, are:
1. Has anyone successfully encrypted their entire AC server using a tool like BitLocker or TrueCrypt?
2. How did you do it and what problems did you run into?
3. Did you encrypt the ENTIRE server or just the parts that would touch or contain AC and ePHI material; did you leave the system software itself like Windows Server alone?
4. How did encrypting your machine affect any automated backup routines run on your AC server dbase?
5. If you encrypt the entire drive wouldn't that also encrypt your backups, too?
6. And if you have encrypted backups, how would you restore your server from an encrypted AC backup in the course of some terrible event?
Our server is here with us on site. It is not in some far off data center miles away.
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