Perspecsys Reports Widespread Demand from Healthcare Industry for Cloud Data Protection and Compliance
27 May 2015 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Healthcare Providers, Insurers and Medical
Device Manufacturers Secure Highly Sensitive and Regulated Data in
the Cloud with Perspecsys AppProtex
Perspecsys, the leader in enterprise cloud data protection
solutions, today announced the company is seeing a surge in
worldwide demand for its AppProtex Cloud Protection Platform across
all sectors of the healthcare industry. Against a backdrop of
increasingly stringent sector-based compliance and privacy
regulations meant to address increasing cyber threats to healthcare
data that is finding its way into a variety of dispersed systems
like public clouds, healthcare organizations have embraced
AppProtex to harness the power of the cloud, while ensuring the
highest possible security and control of sensitive and regulated
data.
With AppProtex, sensitive protected health information (PHI)
data is replaced with a token or an encrypted value while still
inside the healthcare organization’s firewall, prior to going to a
cloud environment for processing and storage. Because the
clear-text data never leaves the organization, and is protected
in-transit, at-rest and in-use within the cloud, issues associated
with healthcare data privacy, security and compliance are
completely addressed. In addition to securing the data, the
AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Platform ensures that the users of
healthcare cloud applications can still use the application’s
features – like searching, sorting and reporting – even on data
that has been strongly encrypted or tokenized.
As digital healthcare information dramatically grows, cyber
criminals certainly have their eyes on this treasure trove of
personally identifiable information (PII). Knowing they must
control their data flow in outsourced environments like SaaS cloud
applications, CIOs in healthcare organizations have turned to
Perspecsys’ platform to protect their data as they have looked to
embrace cloud platforms for operational efficiency, for
example:
- For a service provider to many of the
top Fortune 100 healthcare medical product and pharmaceutical
companies, securing patient data to their cloud systems with
Perspecsys is a key component of protecting PHI. Patient data stays
within their secure and compliant datacenter while only replacement
tokens are processed and stored in their SaaS clouds. This way,
clinical staff and patients throughout Europe and North America
have full access to required information to perform their jobs and,
in every step of the way, the organization has full control over
their customer’s patient healthcare data.
- Perspecsys provides critical data
protection to secure healthcare insurance claims in the cloud.
Through the use of encryption and tokenization technologies,
Perspecsys AppProtex enables the use of a cloud system that
provides fast, anywhere access to claims that are being processed
by this healthcare insurer. Perspecsys ensures that all sensitive
claims data is protected throughout its lifecycle phases of use in
the cloud system (in-transit, at-rest and in-use). Perspecsys
enables the adoption of this cloud system, which has streamlined
the entire claims process for insurers, employers and third-party
administrators.
- A leading provider of medical devices
has launched a system to report a patient’s blood sugar levels by
scanning and storing patient information and blood data in a cloud
system that is accessible via web-based portals. Perspecsys
supports secure and effective data monitoring and collaboration
between patients and doctors by controlling where patient data
physically resides and who has the ability to access it in the
clear.
In a report exploring why healthcare organizations will need
stronger security to participate in digital business, Gartner
noted, “as providers, payers, employees, patients and partners
become increasingly intertwined through shared data, greater
transparency and greater use of analytics, the opportunities for
loss, error and theft grow exponentially.” Gartner recommendations
include the advice to “review existing health information security
policies to identify all the risks to electronic health information
that the organization faces.”(1)
“Healthcare organizations have seen a massive jump in cyber
attacks over the past year and we’ll continue to see more cases
like Anthem unless the industry takes fundamental steps to raise
the bar for cybersecurity – especially given the heavy push towards
cloud-based systems to manage healthcare applications,” said David
Canellos, President and CEO, Perspecsys. “When it comes to
safeguarding mission-critical electronic health information in
cloud applications, healthcare organizations need the highest
levels of protection through all phases of their data’s lifecycle.
Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in demand
from healthcare organizations who are choosing the AppProtex
Platform to satisfy security and regulatory needs while allowing
them to fully leverage the power and flexibility of the cloud.”
(1) Gartner: Healthcare Delivery Organizations Will Need
Stronger Security to Participate in Digital Business 02 April 2015
G00274965 Analyst(s): Zafar Chaudry, M.D. | Barry Runyon
About Cloud Data Protection Provider,
PerspecsysPerspecsys’ Cloud Data Protection platform solves key
data compliance, privacy and security concerns for enterprises
adopting cloud-based applications. The solution puts enterprises in
complete control of their cloud data at all times, allowing them to
simply address the leading data compliance and security challenges
impacting enterprise cloud adoption. By removing the security
issues and operational risks associated with placing sensitive data
in the cloud, Perspecsys makes the public cloud private. Perspecsys
Inc. is a privately held company backed by investors, including
Intel Capital, Paladin Capital and Ascent Venture Partners. For
more information please visit www.Perspecsys.com and
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