Yubico and TrueCrypt Protect Sensitive Data in US Healthcare Project

Sunnyvale, CA, February 04, 2010 --(PR.com)-- MOSBIRT is a substance abuse prevention project that will screen up to 200,000 Missourians in various medical settings for risky substance use behaviors. The organization has developed a computer application to guide health coaches in emergency departments and family medicine clinics in Springfield, Columbia, and St. Louis, Missouri. This is all done on tablet computers synchronized to a central database.

“Because of the sensitive nature of the data, the hard drives are fully encrypted with TrueCrypt. Our coaches must use their YubiKey with a static password and an additional string to unlock the computers to allow the OS to boot,” says Matthew G. Hile, Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Missouri Institute of Mental Health. “We expect to serve at least 80,000 Missourians with this system in the next few years.”

About MOSBIRT, www.mosbirt.org
MOSBIRT is a substance abuse prevention project funded by a five year $12.3 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The project is conducted jointly by the University of Missouri’s Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the ADA division of the Missouri Department of Mental Health.

About Truecrypt, www.truecrypt.org
TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. The software is used for real-time on-the-fly encryption and can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, or a device-hosted encrypted volume on either an individual partition or an entire storage device.

About Yubico, www.yubico.com
Yubico is the innovation company behind the YubiKey – a revolutionary authentication key for simple and secure access to networks and services. With open source components and a competitive price, the technology has been adopted by thousands of customers around the world. The company was founded in 2007 and has offices in Stockholm, London and California.

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