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Why should I care about patient data security?
The past 10 years have seen threats to patient data morph from loss of computer tapes, to trusted insider theft, to hacking and malware; which is now responsible for almost 80 percent of data breach events (according to the Verizon Business 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report. Data breaches are often caused when sending data to colleagues in other organizations – transmitting backdoors and keyloggers on the way and exposing patient data at both ends of the data transfer.
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