The healthcare and life sciences vertical includes sectors that provide goods and services to treat patients. It comprises of hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies, and other healthcare firms. This vertical is becoming technologically advanced to increase the efficiency of operations and enhance productivity. Cybercriminals attack heavily adopted technologies to access patients’ healthcare data and other sensitive credentials. According to Sixth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data, published in May 2016, cyber-attacks from external threats and due to internal negligence continue to put patients’ data at risk. In addition, it mentions that in the past six years, data breaches in the healthcare vertical are consistently high in terms of volume, frequency, impact, and cost. Considering the impact of the threat vectors on the healthcare and life sciences vertical, organizations are deploying FIM software and services to prevent direct costs of a data breach. Organizations that fail to comply with HIPAA are charged a heavy penalty. These factors are increasing demand for real-time activity monitoring systems and the adoption of FIM software and services in the healthcare vertical.
File Integrity Monitoring Software in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Solutions offered by Tanium are certainly designed to meet user requirements along with much-improved security. So the moment this system is implemented within your organization, you can aim for better outcomes.