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Perspecsys Reports Widespread Demand from Healthcare Industry for Cloud Data Protection and CompliancePerspecsys, 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 (News - Alert) 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:
"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
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