HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES

Protect Patient Data, Medical Research, and Intellectual Property

Healthcare data is valuable—to you, the patients who rely on it, and the cybercriminals who want to extort it.

Healthcare and life sciences organizations handle enormous volumes of sensitive data—ranging from EMRs and imaging to genomic sequences and clinical trial results. Without real-time scanning, threats can compromise research integrity, delay diagnostics, and jeopardize compliance. NIH, HIPAA, GDPR, 21 CFR Part 11 – all require proactive data protection. Ingest pipelines bring risks from external labs, collaborators, and instruments. TB-sized files and high-volume datasets need scalable, automated scanning.

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Compliance is Requisite

When you place data security at the forefront, compliance becomes an achievable part of routine operations.

Our Solution protects Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) commonly found in:

Research data
Electronic medical records (EMRs)
Healthcare insurance claims
Clinical trial datasets

Compliance is non-negotiable with regulatory frameworks such as:

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance)
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

Data Security is Complex

With ransomware running rampant and data loss on the rise, safeguarding sensitive information is paramount but presents challenges.

Healthcare organizations operate across dynamic, fragmented environments shaped by:

Mergers and acquisitions
Cloud migrations
Cross-platform data transfers
Continuous application development

This complexity leads to:

Vast volumes of sensitive data from multiple, ungoverned sources
Inconsistent security controls and limited visibility
Increased exposure to threats, compliance gaps, and operational risk

Precision Research Requires Precision Security

Clinical genomics and biomedical research teams work with highly sensitive data—often NIH-funded, personally identifiable, and terabytes in scale.

Without automated protection, these critical datasets are at risk of malware, compliance violations, and downstream integrity issues.

Challenges in genomics and research environments:

Genomic datasets often multi-terabyte
Compliance with NIH Data Sharing, GDPR, and HIPAA is mandatory
Data flows across platforms, partners, and collaborators in real-time
Traditional scanning tools can't keep up with performance or file size

Purpose-Built Malware Scanning for Genomics & Clinical Research

Cloud Storage Security delivers automated, in-tenant scanning that protects high-value datasets without interrupting research workflows:

Scans multi-terabyte files with ease—optimized for large-scale genomics and clinical research files
Helps research teams meet NIH grant and data sharing requirements with full-lifecycle protection
Runs entirely within your AWS environment—data is never moved or exposed externally
Compatible with Amazon S3, FSx, EFS, EBS, and multi-cloud environments
Integrates with AWS-native tools, including Security Hub, Transfer Family, and research pipelines
Supports compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, 21 CFR Part 11, and institutional security policies
Site-based licensing available—offering predictable, cost-effective pricing vs. per-GB scanning models

Critical Care Demands Critical Security

Cloud Storage Security helps healthcare systems:

Automatically scan files for malware in cloud storage, including Amazon S3, EFS, FSx, and EBS
Scans files from GBs to PBs with ease
Run entirely in-tenant, keeping sensitive PHI and PII inside your AWS environment at all times
Support compliance efforts with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, and GDPR
Quarantine, tag, or delete infected files based on customizable policies—minimizing human error and speeding up response
Integrate natively with AWS tools like CloudWatch, Security Hub, SNS, and AWS Transfer Family for seamless automation and alerting

Common security challenges CSS addresses:

Patient data spans EMRs, PACS systems, HL7/FHIR exchanges, and connected devices
→ CSS scans data upon ingest and at rest—helping catch malware before it spreads
Compliance is mandatory—not optional
→ CSS supports audit-readiness with real-time scan logs and in-environment data protection
Data flows between vendors, partners, and platforms, increasing exposure
→ CSS provides centralized visibility and scanning across multi-account AWS deployments
Legacy tools often fail to scale in hybrid cloud environments
→ CSS is serverless, cloud-native, and scales automatically to handle large volumes without performance impact

Healthcare companies choose Cloud Storage Security

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Manage Users & Security Settings

Quickly identify and fix insecure configurations with visibility into permission policies and encryption status across your storage environment.

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Empowering Healthcare Organizations with Automated Data Security Solutions

Gain comprehensive visibility into the compliance posture of you data, secure protected health information as well as intelligence in the cloud, and maintain compliance. We make it easy to prevent ransomware attacks and data loss so you don’t have to deal with compliance violations, fines from regulatory agencies, negative publicity, and loss of productivity.

Identify and Remediate Malicious Files

Prevent infection with real time and on demand identification, mitigation, and threat response.

Detect Ransomware

Protect Data Ingestion Pipelines

Safely ingest data using AWS Transfer Family—a fully managed SFTP service—and ensure that only clean data is moved into your environment for use.

Secure Data Pipelines

Meets every requirement we have

This solution completely met our expectations and requirements. API scanning and totally private deployment to be precise. Our clients can trust us with our solution thanks to Cloud Storage Security.

Ivan Tsenov | Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Learning From Ransomware Incidents

Ransomware can paralyze a company, halting operations and disrupting its ability to provide care. The recent ransomware incident affecting Change Healthcare is expected to exceed $1 billion in costs, not including hundreds of hours spent on platform restoration and other response efforts.

Tune in to this three part miniseries to learn about ransomware entry points and best practices, what recent victims of ransomware attacks could have done differently, and how to ensure safer operations in the cloud.

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