When hackers stole Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine data last year during a cyberattack on Europe's medicines controller, it was just the latest in a long line of cybercrimes against medical organizations.
Efforts to illegally access data in pharmaceutical and other medical organizations increased during COVID-19, but even before the pandemic, gaining access to drug development datasets was high on hackers' wish lists.
In 2020, a study by IBM placed the average cost of a data breach for a pharmaceutical business at $5.1 million, ranking the sector just behind healthcare, energy, and financial industries in terms of experiencing the highest costs.
Most of the breaches in pharma were the result of malicious attacks, and the cost of a pharma breach was nearly double the average cost across all industries, where breaches cost an average of $3.86 million each.
Forbes highlighted vulnerabilities around identity compromise and limited access resulting from hybrid and multi-cloud environments, calling it the "cloud permissions gap."
The increasing reliance of large enterprises on cloud, hybrids, and multi-vendor environments has expanded the potential avenues for a malicious breach. With data usage more crucial than ever, solutions are needed that integrate quickly and efficiently with existing infrastructure to enable rapid innovation without compromising safety or data security.
Big data analytics will improve patient care, but greater data management is needed alongside. Cloud-native transformation across the pharmaceutical sector requires partnerships with specialized organizations to optimize the use of open-source technologies.
As a leader in intelligent edge computing solutions, SUSE is well-positioned to support the use of lightweight Linux, Kubernetes, and storage products for x86 or Arm hardware within the pharma industry.
Scaling Kubernetes solutions means you don't have to choose between speed and security. You can innovate without compromising your data. With SUSE Rancher, you can unify all clusters to ensure consistent operations, workload management, and enterprise-grade security from core to cloud to edge.
SUSE's flexible Linux OS, container management, observability, networking, and storage solutions bring everything you need for a data-driven competitive advantage.
As you democratize data throughout your organization, customize treatments, and run at-home clinical trials, you must deliver and manage solutions reliably and securely in environments with limited computing power or connectivity.
With SUSE, gain the openness and interoperability needed to optimize your supply chain for a digital future, enhance R&D, and increase ROI with reliable and secure technology that helps future-proof your organization.
If you would like to talk to one of our experts or learn more about how SUSE can bring resilience to your organization, please get in touch.
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