Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:02:45AM -0500, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> >>First, security is defined directly in terms of tables, it is not
> >>arbitrated by code. The "public" group has SELECT access to the
> >>articles table and the schedules tables, that's it. If a person figures
> >>out how our links work and tries to access the "claims" table it will
> >>simply come up blank (and we get an email).
>
> If a user has not logged in, that is, if they are an anonymous visitor,
> the web framework will connect to the database as the default "public"
> user. Our system is deny-by-default, so this user cannot actually read
> >from any table unless specifically granted permission. In the case
> being discussed, the public user is given SELECT permission on some
> columns of the insurance carriers table, and on the schedules table.
>
> The column-level security is important, as you don't want anybody seeing
> the provider id!
>
> If the user figures out our URL scheme, they might try something like
> "?gp_page=patients" and say "Wow I'm clever I'm going to look at the
> patients table", except that the public user has no privilege on the
> table. The db server will throw a permission denied error.

My interest was more towards the "we get an email" part.
What level do you send that from ? A trigger ?

Karsten
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