Policy-driven authorization for healthcare
The healthcare industry suffers 340% more security incidents and attacks than the average industry. Keep your patient data and intellectual property (IP) secure and meet compliance standards with our policy-driven authorization solution.
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At the heart of the healthcare industry lies a profound trust between patients and providers. When patients agree to share their health information, they trust that someone will keep their sensitive data private and safe.
Axiomatics plays a vital role in the evolving healthcare and life sciences landscape by safeguarding patient data. Policy-driven authorization enables dynamic and precise data protection, adapting to the complex needs of healthcare organizations while maintaining compliance with strict legal standards. This approach ensures that only authorized individuals have access to the data they need, down to the most granular levels, such as individual medical records or files.
In an industry based on trust, keeping data private and secure is both a legal requirement and a key duty to patients. Axiomatics ensures healthcare providers can uphold this trust while navigating the complexities of modern data governance and privacy regulations.
Meet a state of compliance
Healthcare organizations must follow many regulations and laws. These include HIPAA in the US, GDPR in the EU, and PIPEDA in Canada, among others, all while ensuring a seamless user experience.
These regulations are dynamic, continually evolving in response to the shifting landscape of data privacy. Failure to comply isn’t just a legal risk. It can lead to substantial financial penalties, legal challenges, and even the loss of operating licenses in extreme cases.
It can be easy to meet regulatory requirements when attribute-based access control (ABAC) works in real-time. It also fits with different frameworks like the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). This helps organizations stay compliant with the mentioned regulations.
Policy-driven authorization addresses common challenges
Relationship management
Organizations can create policies that limit employees, like doctors, nurses, and receptionists, from accessing patient medical records beyond their assigned responsibilities. This ensures that employees cannot view VIP patient records (celebrities, government leaders, etc) or patients they have personal relationships with.
Isolated authorization
By centralizing access control, organizations can create a standard way to manage who can see patient data. Only authorized staff, like doctors and nurses, can access information that relates to their roles. This helps stop unauthorized access, reduces silos and ensures consistent enforcement of security policies across the organization.
Anomalous behavior detection and response
A report from the HIPAA Journal states that more than seven million records were accessed without permission. This highlights the growing risk in the healthcare industry. Solutions that implement fine-grained access controls can detect and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data in key applications.
Delegation for special use cases
Organizations can use specific permissions that take into account factors like role, location, and time. This approach allows for better security that is more tailored to individual needs. This ensures that the organization grants access only when necessary, addresses special cases, and maintains consistent enforcement of security policies.
Innovate on R&D while protecting trade secrets
Pharmaceutical and life science companies spend billions on research and development. The intellectual property (IP) they create is their most valuable asset.
In a highly competitive environment where innovation is crucial, protecting IP is essential. Trade secrets, including new product formulations, breakthrough manufacturing techniques, marketing strategies, clinical trial data, and test outcomes, must be protected in line with corporate governance standards.
Many organizations and research institutions use traditional static access controls. However, these controls often fail to stop IP theft after authorized users gain access.
Relying on users to manually safeguard sensitive information is impractical. Unauthorized access or misuse of research data can lead to IP theft. This gives competitors an unfair advantage and can cause large financial losses.
Policy-based authorization offers a more effective solution, using attributes to determine appropriate access levels based on an organization’s risk tolerance. It follows the principle of least privilege. This means users get only the minimum permissions they need to do their jobs. Additionally, this approach generates detailed audit logs that serve not only security purposes but also provide insights into user behavior patterns.
The next step to securing your patient data & IP
For nearly 20 years, Axiomatics has provided its award-winning authorization solution to enterprises worldwide. Our solution provides a policy and attributed-based approach to access control that can be used at multiple layers including applications, APIs, and microservices.
Discover why many of the world’s largest organizations trust Axiomatics’ solution to share sensitive, valuable and regulated digital assets – but only to authorized users and in the right context.
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