Security at Equip
Equip Health, Inc’s security & compliance principles guide how we deliver our services, enabling people to safely and securely interact with Equip digitally.
Secure Personnel
- All Equip Health, Inc contractors and employees undergo background checks prior to being engaged or employed by us in accordance with local laws and industry best practices.
- Confidentiality or other types of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are signed by all employees, contractors, and others who have a need to access sensitive or internal information.
- We embed the culture of security into our business by conducting employee security training & testing using current and emerging techniques and attack vectors.
Secure Development
- All development projects at Equip Health, Inc, including on-premises software products, support services, and our own Digital Identity Cloud offerings follow secure development lifecycle principles.
- All development of new products, tools, and services, and major changes to existing ones, undergo a design review to ensure security requirements are incorporated into proposed development.
- All team members that are regularly involved in any system development undergo annual secure development training in coding or scripting languages that they work with as well as any other relevant training.
- Software development is conducted in line with OWASP Top 10 recommendations for web application security.
Secure Testing
Equip Health, Inc deploys third party penetration testing and vulnerability scanning of all production and Internet facing systems on a regular basis.
- All new systems and services are scanned prior to being deployed to production.
- We perform penetration testing both by internal security engineers and external penetration testing companies on new systems and products or major changes to existing systems, services, and products to ensure a comprehensive and real-world view of our products & environment from multiple perspectives.
- We perform static and dynamic software application security testing of all code, including open source libraries, as part of our software development process.
Cloud Security
Equip Health, Inc Cloud provides maximum security with complete customer isolation in a modern, multi-tenant cloud architecture. Equip Health, Inc Cloud leverages the native physical and network security features of the cloud service, and relies on the providers to maintain the infrastructure, services, and physical access policies and procedures.
- All customer cloud environments and data are isolated using Equip Health, Inc’s patented isolation approach. Each customer environment is stored within a dedicated trust zone to prevent any accidental or malicious co-mingling.
- All data is also encrypted at rest and in transmission to prevent any unauthorized access and prevent data breaches. Our entire platform is also continuously monitored by dedicated, highly trained Equip Health, Inc experts.
- We separate each customer's data and our own, utilizing unique encryption keys to ensure data is protected and isolated.
- Client’s data protection complies with SOC 2 standards to encrypt data in transit and at rest, ensuring customer and company data and sensitive information is protected at all times.
- We implement role-based access controls and the principles of least privileged access, and review revoke access as needed.
Compliance
Equip Health, Inc is committed to providing secure and accessible services to our patients and clients. Our external certifications provide independent assurance of Equip Health, Inc’s dedication to protecting our patients and clients by regularly assessing and validating the protections and effective security practices Equip Health, Inc has in place.
SOC 2 Type 1
Equip Health, Inc successfully completed the AICPA Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type I audit. The audit confirms that Equip Health, Inc’s information security practices, policies, procedures, and operations meet the SOC 2 standards for security. Equip Health, Inc was audited by Prescient Assurance, a leader in security and compliance certifications for B2B, SAAS companies worldwide. Prescient Assurance is a registered public accounting in the US and Canada and provide risk management and assurance services which includes but isnot limited to SOC 2, PCI, ISO, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, CSA STAR etc. For more information about Prescient Assurance, you may reach out to them at info@prescientassurance.com. An unqualified opinion on a SOC 2 Type I audit report demonstrates to the Equip Health, Inc’s current and future customers that they manage their data with the highest standard of security and compliance.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns at all about our security practices or would like to request a copy of our audit report, please contact us at: hello@equip.health.
Last Updated and Effective: November 8, 2023