FairWarning News and Press Releases

FairWarning® Furthers Electronic Health Record Privacy Auditing Leadership
January 29th, 2008
Today, FairWarning® announced 2007 company achievements and a series 2008 steps that further the company’s position as the leading provider of cross-platform healthcare privacy auditing solutions. More>>

EpicTide Changes Name to FairWarning®
January 29th, 2008
EpicTide announced today that it has changed its name to FairWarning®.  The company’s corporate structure and mission remains unchanged.  “FairWarning’s continued mission is to be the world’s leading supplier of cross-platform privacy auditing solutions for Electronic Health Records and we believe our new name most accurately reflects the value we provide to our healthcare customers,” said CEO of FairWarning®, Kurt Long. More>>

FairWarning Grows Revenue and Acquires National Footprint of Customers
October 9th, 2007
FairWarning announced today that based on its financial results through September, 2007, the company expects to finish 2007 with 300 percent revenue growth. FairWarning has now acquired major healthcare customers in every region of the United States. FairWarning's customers include some of the nation’s largest and most prominent healthcare organizations.  More>>

FairWarning Announces Wide-Scale Adoption of FairWarning by McKesson-Based Healthcare Providers
October 9th, 2007
Today FairWarning announced that its leading privacy auditing solution has received wide-scale adoption by McKesson customers across the United States. FairWarning provides the industry's first software solution specifically designed for proactive privacy auditing across a broad range healthcare applications and electronic medical records. More>>

FairWarning Delivers Out-of-the-Box HIPAA Privacy Auditing for McKesson Family of Healthcare Applications
June 26th, 2007
Today FairWarning announced that its leading privacy auditing solution has been optimized for a wide range of McKesson healthcare applications. Many FairWarning customers using McKesson applications are benefiting from the optimized solution for automating HIPAA compliance and generating exception-based reporting for compliance policies. More>>

FairWarning Delivers Healthcare's First Policy Engine Used to Systematically Detect Privacy and Security Exceptions in Healthcare Information Systems
Gartner Security Summit, Washington, DC, Press release, June 5th, 2007
Today at the Gartner IT Security Summit, FairWarning, a leading provider of privacy auditing solutions for the healthcare industry announced the general availability of the FairWarning Policy Engine. The FairWarning(R) auditing solution is now bundled with dozens of use case scenarios that represent the greatest compliance, privacy and security risks to healthcare providers. 
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FAIRWARNING AND FORWARD ADVANTAGE SIGN PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER ENTERPRISE PRIVACY AUDITING SOLUTION TO MEDITECH USERS
HIMSS New Orleans, Press release, February 27th, 2007
Forward Advantage expands im-one offering to include FairWarning's privacy auditing solution for MEDITECH Users.  Forward Advantage & FairWarning offer the healthcare industry's FIRST AND ONLY MEDITECH certified and authorized electronic privacy auditing solution.   Read the press release >>

FairWarning Releases Results of First Ever Medical Identity Theft Survey       
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – December 12, 2006 – A robust 98 percent of consumers believe that healthcare organizations have a responsibility to protect patient medical records however, only 40 percent of consumers feel confident that their healthcare providers are able to secure their medical records. This is according to a survey report released today by FairWarning, a leading provider of security solutions for the healthcare industry. 
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FairWarning Announces Leading Database Expert to Join Company’s Solutions Advisory Board
Press Release, November 28, 2006ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – (BUSINESS WIRE)--November 28, 2006 – ...Dr. Hammer is an associate professor at the University of Florida, where he specializes in knowledge discovery, data warehousing and information integration. Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Hammer was a research scientist in the database group at Stanford University... Read the press release>>

FairWarning CEO Named Tampa Bay Technology Forum’s Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year
TBTF Press release - November 10, 2006
Serial entrepreneur Kurt Long, founder and CEO of security software and solutions provider FairWarning (www.FairWarningAudit.com), was chosen as Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year at last night’s 3rd Annual Industry Achievement Awards Gala.    Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com), was presented with TBTF’s inaugural Visionary Achievement Award for the extraordinary success and influence of his online, peer authored and produced encyclopedia. Read the press release>>

MemorialCare® Selects Appliance-Based FairWarning 2.0 for Ability to Consolidate Wide Range of Healthcare Audit Sources and Ease of Deployment.
Press release- October, 16th, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2006--FairWarning, Inc., a leading provider of security solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that MemorialCare®, the West's second largest community hospital campus, has selected FairWarning 2.0 ® for enterprise patient privacy auditing and information security monitoring. MemorialCare®, based in Long Beach, Calif., is recognized as one of the top integrated healthcare systems in America (Verispan 100) and one of the most technologically advanced healthcare providers in the U.S. (Healthcare's Most Wired 100).  Read the press release>>

Healthcare's first appliance based solution for continuous HIPAA compliance includes support for every major HIS application; FairWarning 2.0. 
Press Release - September 13th, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2006--FairWarning, Inc., a leading provider of security solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today at Digital ID World the release of FairWarning 2.0 and the healthcare security industry's first appliance-based solution for detecting common healthcare information security incidents. Read the press release >>.



FairWarning Secures Expansion Capital, Clear Path to Profitability and Success of Paying Production Customers Drives Deal. 
Press Release - July 12 th, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 12, 2006--FairWarning, Inc., a leading provider of security information management solutions, announced today that the company has secured $1 MM in growth capital from an investor group led by business leader Lee Arnold Jr..  Under the terms of the agreement, FairWarning has received access to growth capital and provisions for additional investment based on future expansion capital requirements. Read the press release >>


Zix Corporation Announces Technology Alliance Agreement with FairWarning Email Encryption Services to Enhance FairWarning's Healthcare and Financial Applications.
Press Release - May 11 th, 2006
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2006--Zix Corporation (ZixCorp®), (Nasdaq:ZIXI - News), the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced a technology alliance with FairWarning, a leading provider of security information management solutions. FairWarning will seamlessly augment and integrate its healthcare and financial service offerings with ZixCorp's email encryption gateway service, ZixVPM® (Virtual Private Messenger). Read the press release>>

FairWarning announces support for Red Hat; acceptance into Red Hat Ready program (pdf).
Press Release - March 28th, 2006
FairWarning, Inc., a leading provider of security information management solutions announced today that the company’s flagship product FairWarning(TM) has been accepted to the Red Hat Ready program.  FairWarning improves information security and compliance responsiveness by consolidating security logs, monitoring for common security incidents and enabling rapid forensics investigation.  FairWarning's announced support for Red Hat Linux is part of FairWarning's F.A.S.T. product vision.  Read the press release (pdf) >>.

FairWarning extends Imprivata OneSign Enabling customers to leverage single sign on investment to streamline HIPAA privacy audits. 
Press Release - March 28th, 2006
FairWarning, a leading provider of HIPAA privacy audit and log centralization solutions, announced today that the company's flagship privacy auditing product has been extended to support Imprivata OneSign.  Lexington, MA based Imprivata, is the industry's leading appliance based single sign on solution.  Read the press release (pdf) >>.

University Community Health to deploy FairWarning to further automate information security and HIPAA compliance processes (pdf). 
Press Release - January 31st, 2006
FairWarning, a leading provider of Healthcare information security and compliance solutions, today announced that University Community Health has selected FairWarning to further automate key portions of UCH's HIPAA compliance and information security processes.  Read the press release (pdf) >>.

FairWarning and AEP Networks announce market driven alliance for streamlined HIPAA compliance and secure application access - Companies to demonstrate solution at HIMSS (pdf). 
Press Release - January 17th, 20006
FairWarning, Inc. a leading provider of HIPAA compliance solutions, and AEP Networks, a leading provider of secure application access solutions, announced today that they have collaborated to offer a joint solution in response to market demand and requests from common customers.  Read the press release (pdf) >>

Bayfront Health System to deploy FairWarning flagship privacy auditing solution to further automate information security and HIPAA compliance processes. 
Press Release - November 29th, 2005
FairWarning, a leading provider of Healthcare information security and compliance solutions, today announced that Bayfront Health System has selected FairWarning to further automate key portions of Bayfront’s HIPAA compliance and information security processes.  Read the press release >>


                                           
FairWarning announces Solutions Advisory Board comprised of world class experts.
Press Release - September 13th, 2005
FairWarning establishes its Solutions Advisory Board to provide guidance and oversight in the continued development of the company's flagship software solution, FairWarning™.  The Solutions Advisory Board draws upon world-class information security, compliance and Healthcare experts. 
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FairWarning and the University of Florida announce agreement. 
Press Release - August 30th, 2005
The University of Florida and FairWarning announce a collaborative agreement to tackle emerging security challenges in the commercial market place.  FairWarning gains access to world-class information security research faculty and licensing to research break throughs.  Read the press release>>