Protect What Matters Most – Patient Health Information
Cybersecurity in the healthcare industry has even more at stake than stolen protected health information (PHI). A cyberattack could be the difference between life and death for patients. As more medical equipment is connected to IoT devices with poor security, any threat actor who can hack into a facility’s network could gain access and control a patient’s pacemaker, kidney machine, or other devices.
Because of the valuable information stored and transmitted within the medical industry, as well as the use of third-party technologies to streamline data sharing across providers, insurers, and other partners, hundreds of healthcare organizations fall victim to data breaches each year. Like educational institutions, healthcare organizations manage a wide range of personal information beyond PHI, including financial and credit card information and insurance details. Some medical centers also offer educational opportunities, adding academic data to the information mix. The need for the healthcare industry to preemptively combat cybercrime has never been more pressing.
Spirion reduces the risk associated with PHI, test and lab results, insurance information, and intellectual property. With accurate visibility into sprawling data repositories, healthcare organizations can minimize sensitive data exposure, improve efficiencies and decision-making, and comply with industry, state, federal, and international privacy regulations like HIPAA, HITECH, PCI-DSS, FERPA, GLBA, and more.
Identify sensitive data, classify different data types by their level of sensitivity, and protect personal data to prevent compromise and misuse.
Enhance security posture by making informed decisions based on business insights.
Facilitate compliance with GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, and other relevant data protection laws and regulations.
The average cost of a data breach in the healthcare industry — a 29% increase from 2020.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021
The number of records exposed by 525 healthcare data breaches in 2019.
Identity Theft Resource Center 2019 Annual Report
The average cost of a data breach across all industries.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021
Protecting patient health information within organizations
Improving privacy and security of healthcare data amid ongoing digital transformations
Regulating personal data privacy and protection across the European Union
Safeguarding payment card data across global transactions
Regulating how financial institutions share and protect customer data
Protecting the personal information of California residents
What if you could automatically and persistently discover, classify, understand, control, and protect sensitive data in a way that ensured compliance but also allowed for business agility? With Spirion, you can.
As data proliferates, discovery becomes exponentially more difficult. Most organizations have terabytes and petabytes of data spread across servers, laptops, and other devices. Solving the problem requires a Privacy-Grade™ discovery solution with enough breadth to search all locations and depth to find any data type.
Once you have located all of your data, the automated application of persistent labels, tags, and visual markers helps both humans and computers determine its sensitivity and treat it consistently. Classification ensures that only appropriate parties can access sensitive data as it moves through the organization and supports information sharing with other data protection controls.
After Discovery and Classification are complete, each team can gain a better understanding of its data footprint. A full picture of your data inventory allows you to operationalize data, foster organizational productivity, conduct historical reviews and analysis, ensure competitiveness, and maintain data privacy.
To secure unprotected data, you need to control who can see it, when they can see it, and what they can do with it during any data lifecycle action – from creation to disposal. Control includes file shredding, redaction, quarantine, reduction of access rights, third-party controls, and role management at the job-role or server administration level.
Consumers can demand the right to know and the right to be forgotten. Contracts with vendors often require data privacy safeguards. Auditors and industry-specific regulators have their own rules about how consumer data is collected, stored, and used. With regulations on the rise, proactive protection is more critical than ever.
Protect sensitive information with a solution that is customizable to your organizational needs. When your job is to protect sensitive data, you need the flexibility to choose solutions that support your security and privacy initiatives.
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