Employee Security practices

All Tidepool employees undergo annual HIPAA security audits of all computers, accounts and mobile devices used for work purposes.

Tidepool employees are educated yearly and on a continuing basis regarding security practices and information security risks, to include:

Incident response and how to report issues when bad things happen
Mobile device security
Email security and phishing

Tidepool employees are required to use unique, strong passwords and to maintain their passwords in an approved password manager .

All Tidepool employees are required to use 2-factor authentication for all Tidepool accounts and critical accounts are secured with hardware tokens.

All Tidepool employees are required to use screen and account locking for computers, filesystem encryption for all compute devices, and to have strong passwords and encryption enabled for their mobile devices that access Tidepool accounts

All Tidepool employees are required to use multi-factor authentication, 2-factor authentication, or SSO for all capable services.

See HIPAA Training and Compliance for additional details.