Month: November 2017

Sensitive healthcare data is more vulnerable today than ever before. Personal medical records, social security numbers, corporate trade secrets are all stored, used and transmitted online through networked devices.

This overflowing stream of patient data prevents hackers with an increasing wide range of opportunities to steal and sell intellectual property.

Healthcare organizations are also at risk from internal threats. A disgruntled employee can expose confidential data even faster than a hacker if there are not adequate safeguards in place to prevent security breaches.

One of the key tenets of cloud computing is the reduction of hardware and software ownership and maintenance which allows organizations to focus on their core business strategies and strengths.

We are already seeing this trend with organizations consolidating remote print servers to centralized data centers in the form of serverless printing.

However, by adopting a cloud service, organizations have to give up direct control of whatever system they are moving to the cloud which naturally spawns concerns over security.