Health care organizations are moving infrastructure and data to the cloud at a fairly rapid pace. A recent study suggests the cloud computing market in health care is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017. Enticing as the cloud is, when dealing with highly sensitive and regulated information, it’s important to proceed with caution.
The good news for pharma companies, biotech firms and research hospitals – organizations most likely to move heavy big data payloads to the cloud- is that there are some security best practices that can protect data at rest in the cloud.