2023 THALES
DATA THREAT REPORT

Delivering Care in a Connected World

The healthcare and life sciences industries have long faced a unique set of security challenges, and the rapid shift to higher levels of digitization means they have much more data to protect. They must secure their environments with infrastructure that has become more multicloud and more complex.

There are positive trends in key areas, but still much more work to be done. The latest edition of this report explores the perspectives of more than 300 biotechnology, healthcare and pharmaceutical respondents in 18 countries on their understanding of the evolving threat landscape and challenges and strategies in data protection, as well as infrastructure areas such as cloud.

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Awareness of changing risks is high among healthcare and life sciences organizations, but this hasn’t accelerated how organizations address them.

 

Ransomware is a much greater concern for healthcare respondents

71%

citing an increase in attacks, well above 49% survey-wide. It is a top threat for bio tech and pharma, but not as notable.

Identity and encryption management complexity can be serious issues.

60%of healthcare respondents have five or more key management systems in use.

 

 

Multicloud is today’s reality:

87%

Particularly in healthcare, where respondents have an average of 2.42 cloud providers. Most healthcare respondents (87%) have two or more cloud providers, 7 percentage points higher than the survey-wide result.

 

The average number of SaaS apps used by healthcare organizations

130

Among healthcare respondents, the average reported number of SaaS apps in use is 130, 34% higher than survey-wide.