The healthcare market is ripe for cloud access security broker (CASB) and cloud data loss prevention (cloud DLP) solutions. Between a major transition to online medical records, a transient and distributed professional user base, critical need for collaboration across providers, and sheer usefulness of mobile technology for healthcare use cases, cloud has grown into a major asset to healthcare organizations. Is has also become a major liability. Criminals pay top dollar for users’ protected healthcare information, and preventing a healthcare data breach or exposure of protected health information (PHI) is not easy. Netskope serves five of the top 10 hospital networks in the U.S., and sees up-close the demand and requirements for securing PHI and other kinds of regulated and sensitive data in the cloud.
As one of our solutions architects in Southern California, I serve a number of our healthcare customers, and have learned a great deal about how to get the most out of CASB to protect PHI in the cloud. Here are five must-do strategies I have seen work and recommend to our healthcare customers:
1. Map out your cloud DLP policies by violation, app type, user type, device classification, severity, and the action