Virtual visits transformed the healthcare industry, making care accessible to remote patients online. This change, while beneficial, also meant that millions of healthcare workers and patients began to exchange sensitive healthcare issues over unvetted cloud apps that weren’t built to secure health data.
Accelerated adoption of the cloud has driven healthcare organizations to rely more heavily on cloud-based productivity suites and apps that enable both employees and patients to access data from anywhere. Compound this use of managed and unmanaged mobile devices in a world where the network perimeter is being eroded and you have a real challenge at hand.