Hospitals, biotech firms and pharma companies are entrusted to protect sensitive information, including personal patient data and valuable proprietary research, from skilled adversaries looking to grab sensitive data to steal, sell, or extort. Unfortunately, some of that threat can be within the organization.
In the 2021 Healthcare Data Risk Report from Varonis, analysts examined the state of data security – on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments – for healthcare organizations including hospitals, biotech and pharmaceutical firms. The report analyzed a random sample of Data Risk Assessments for 58 companies—and a total of 3 billion files–to determine how data is exposed and at risk.