Top Challenges To Overcome

While healthcare’s adoption and trust in the cloud is trending in the right direction, the sector lacks critical visibility into who is using sensitive data, where it’s being stored and how secure their apps and services are. For example, healthcare organizations perform audits of their applications less frequently than their peers in other sectors and are less likely to use identity and access management to monitor access to resources. Other top challenges for healthcare include the following: Shadow IT, complex or outdated infrastructure, IT budget constraints and cybersecurity talent shortages.

The Treatment Plan

On the bright side, healthcare organizations recognize their heightened cybersecurity risks and are taking action to reduce data threats. The report finds that healthcare is most likely of all sectors to deploy data loss prevention (DLP) and encryption solutions, at 30% versus 23% for all industries. Like its peers, 40% of the healthcare sector is interested in adopting a zero trust approach.

The research presented in the report points to the advantages of a single, centralized Security Service Edge (SSE) solution that simplifies cloud security and enables security teams to apply consistent data protection controls and policies across the web, cloud, and private apps — from anywhere, any application, and any device.

Methodology

Skyhigh Security commissioned independent market research agency Vanson Bourne to conduct this research, which is based on the results of 92 IT decision makers and IT specialists with cloud involvement from organizations in the United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, Australia, Japan, and Canada. These organizations have 500 or more employees and represent the healthcare sector. More information on the full research methodology can be found within the global report.


About Skyhigh Security
Skyhigh Security is focused on helping customers secure the world’s data. It protects organizations with cloud-native security solutions that are both data-aware and simple to use. Its market-leading Security Service Edge Portfolio goes beyond data access and focuses on data use, allowing organizations to collaborate from any device and from anywhere without sacrificing security.

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