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title: Healthcare & Life Sciences
description: Securing sensitive healthcare, patient, and pharma research data is a challenge. Enhance your security posture to maintain compliance with HIPAA and more.
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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)

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## 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

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## 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**

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## 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

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## 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*

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## Healthcare companies choose Cloud Storage Security

 Gain comprehensive visibility into your data’s compliance posture, secure protected health information and sensitive intelligence in the cloud, and ensure ongoing compliance. Our solution simplifies ransomware prevention and data loss protection, helping you avoid compliance violations, regulatory fines, reputational damage, and productivity loss—so you can focus on what matters most.

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#### Prevent Malware Intrusion

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##### Prevent Malware Intrusion

Identify and remove infected data no matter how or when it arrives in storage. Our daily updates provide you protection from old and new threats.

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#### Simplify Classification

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##### Simplify Classification

Automatically locate and tag sensitive data with visibility and control into all structured and unstructured data at scale.

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#### Rapidly Investigate a Suspected Breach

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##### Rapidly Investigate a Suspected Breach

Start baseline scanning data the same day you subscribe with a 15-minute deployment and intuitive configuration.

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#### Achieve Compliance

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##### Achieve Compliance

Meet compliance frameworks and service level agreements for threat prevention with real-time, on demand, and scheduled scanning within region.

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#### Expedite Audits

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##### Expedite Audits

Provide proof of data protections and controls via user-friendly reports at the push of a button.

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#### Manage Users & Security Settings

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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.

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#### 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.

 

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