A study from cloud provider Elastica has found the healthcare industry is the biggest culprit for shadow data use, HealthData Management reports. Elastica defines shadow data as “all potentially risky data exposures lurking in sanctioned cloud apps, due to lack of knowledge of the type of data being uploaded and how it is being shared,” the report states. Healthcare companies have many violations “because of the complexity of relationships in the industry, which include physicians, hospitals, clinics, patients, employees, contractors and insurers, among others. Consequently, there are more potential areas of data leakage than in other industries,” the report states, noting Elastica “found millions of files at risk for direct compliance violations, possible intellectual property leaks or generally risky exposures.”
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