Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Safeguarding today’s most sensitive information

Today’s headlines are filled with stories of confidential information that is exposed when laptops and other mobile devices are lost or stolen. With healthcare providers maintaining data ranging from social security numbers, to insurance and employment information, to a person’s most intimate health details, the impact of a data breach is far reaching. In the pharmaceutical industry, the potential to lose proprietary drug trial information, research, or top secret and patented drug formulations, can be catastrophic.

With a growing reliance on more portable computing devices such as laptops, PDAs, Smartphones, and USB drives, the importance of protecting the information on them from loss, theft, or viewing by unauthorized individuals has heightened tremendously. And, with a growing number of standards and legislation that are converging on the healthcare industry, this is an important time for healthcare leaders and pharmaceutical organizations to strengthen their security policies, practices and technologies.

Solutions must provide the appropriate balance between protection and usability while at the same time effectively minimize risks of data theft or loss, achieve compliance with existing regulations, and equip personnel with tools that help them work productively and securely.

Utimaco’s proven family-of products provide:

• Utimaco’s secure user authentication and full data encryption products protect all information stored on mobile devices and removable media. This ensures that organizations maintain a level of compliance that exceeds the legal requirements of all applicable legislative initiatives as well as bolster public confidence and protect community goodwill against the penalties and negative publicity associated with violating HIPAA, California Senate Bill 1386, EU Personal Data Directive and other national or industry-specific regulations.
• Solutions are easy to use and administer. Network administrators can centrally control enforceable, automated mobile security practices that ensure data is protected without requiring user intervention or training.
• All solutions are transparent to end-users and do not impact business processes or impede productivity.
• Utimaco’s modular, scalable, and open architecture provides seamless integration of current and future SafeGuard solutions, new security components, and third-party products – guaranteeing continuous investment protection.
• All products are based on industry standards and a number of them have received security standard certification, including FIPS, Common Criteria, NATO restricted, and more.

A professional and certified solution to safeguard confidential data in healthcare and pharmaceuticals is for example SafeGuard Enterprise from Utimaco. This security suite offers the most robust information protection tools in the industry yet are virtually invisible to users and do not impact productivity.