Clinical Trials Arena July 30, 2024
The digitisation of clinical trials means more data than ever is being collected from patients, but the cloud is vulnerable to exploitation by malicious cyberattackers. Companies across the industry need to invest in a cybersecurity strategy and find like-minded partners to prevent dangerous data breaches.
According to the HIPAA Journal, healthcare data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023, with over 133 million patient records breached. That’s more than double the total recorded in 2022. Accelerated by the transition from in-person to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical trials are especially vulnerable to cyber-attacks due to the quantities of sensitive medical information they collect from patients, with the storage of data in the cloud significantly increasing the potential attack...
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