Healthcare is one industry feeling the profound impact of SaaS adoption — particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, when it became heavily reliant on SaaS.
SaaS provides unquestionable benefits to healthcare by reducing inefficiency, improving access to healthcare services, and providing an expedited personalized response to patients’ requests.
However, the decentralized nature of SaaS applications and the distribution of data between SaaS apps have created a significant challenge for healthcare IT and security teams. And that’s even before you think of increased pressure coming from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and regulations around healthcare (e.g., HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO 27001, NIST, or CIS) and patient data (electronically protected health information (ePHI)) these teams need to adhere to.
Complying with those regulations and standards for IT and security teams means that they first need answers to some fundamental questions around SaaS apps like:
While solutions for managing SaaS applications have been out on the market for a while, the vast majority of them focus on tackling SaaS challenges in isolation from one another, focusing on SaaS misconfigurations, shadow IT discovery, and user access. As a result of this singular focus, these solutions don’t provide a single source of truth into the SaaS application landscape given the healthcare industry-specific requirements and expansion of SaaS applications.
Given the surge in SaaS adoption and the existing challenges the industry is facing, an effective approach to SaaS management for global healthcare organizations should incorporate the following key capabilities:
With its comprehensive approach to SaaS management, Axonius enables IT and security teams to gain full control and combat security risks across their entire SaaS applications environment.
Axonius helps healthcare customers:
Combined with Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management, Axonius SaaS Management provides a comprehensive solution that unifies and provides valuable data insights across SaaS apps, cloud services, devices, and users. Customers can easily and effectively control complexity across their entire IT environment.
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