Protect Trade Secrets When Collaborating With Your Supply Chain Partners

Sharing PHI, clinical trial data, drug research, and intellectual property is highly risky for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. This information is also often subject to regulations that require rigorous controls.

The Kiteworks Private Data Network consolidates email, file sharing, SFTP, MFT, and web forms, so every file sent, shared, or received is controlled, protected, tracked, and recorded in adherence to rigorous standards and regulations like HIPAA, GxP, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, NIST CSF, and more.

Protecting Critical IP in Drug Discovery, Trials, and Manufacturing

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive information related to drug discovery and clinical trials. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of critical intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows companies to share sensitive information related to drug discovery and clinical trials securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of critical intellectual property.

Secure File Sharing for Genome Sequencing

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies often need to share sensitive genome sequencing data. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows companies to share sensitive genome sequencing data securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of intellectual property.

Secure Communication for Clinical Trials

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive patient data during clinical trials. Insecure communication can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides a secure communication platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive patient data securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations such as PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PDPA, and others.

Secure File Sharing for Research Collaboration

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive research data for collaborative projects. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive research data securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of intellectual property.

Managed File Transfer for Regulatory Submissions

Pharmaceutical companies often need to transfer large files for regulatory submissions. Traditional file transfer methods can be slow, unreliable, and insecure. Kiteworks provides a managed file transfer solution that allows pharmaceutical companies to transfer large files quickly, reliably, and securely. The platform’s high-speed transfer, reliability, and security features ensure efficient and secure file transfer.

Secure Web Forms for Patient Recruitment

Pharmaceutical companies often need to collect sensitive personal information for patient recruitment. Insecure data collection can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides secure web forms that allow pharmaceutical companies to collect sensitive personal information securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR, PIPEDA, PDPA, HIPAA, and others.

Email Security for Internal Communication

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive information via email. Insecure email communication can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides email security features that allow pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive information via email securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations.

Secure File Sharing for Manufacturing Processes

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive manufacturing process data. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive manufacturing process data securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of intellectual property and compliance with GxP regulations.

Managed File Transfer for Supply Chain Management

Pharmaceutical companies often need to transfer large files for supply chain management. Traditional file transfer methods can be slow, unreliable, and insecure. Kiteworks provides a managed file transfer solution that allows pharmaceutical companies to transfer large files quickly, reliably, and securely for supply chain management. The platform’s high-speed transfer, reliability, and security features ensure efficient and secure file transfer.

Secure Web Forms for Adverse Event Reporting

Pharmaceutical companies often need to collect sensitive personal information for adverse event reporting. Insecure data collection can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides secure web forms that allow pharmaceutical companies to collect sensitive personal information securely for adverse event reporting. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.

Email Security for External Communication

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive information with external partners via email. Insecure email communication can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides email security features that allow pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive information with external partners via email securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations.

Secure File Sharing for Patent Applications

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive patent application data. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive patent application data securely. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of intellectual property.

Managed File Transfer for Data Backup

Pharmaceutical companies often need to transfer large files for data backup. Traditional file transfer methods can be slow, unreliable, and insecure. Kiteworks provides a managed file transfer solution that allows pharmaceutical companies to transfer large files quickly, reliably, and securely for data backup. The platform’s high-speed transfer, reliability, and security features ensure efficient and secure file transfer.

Secure Web Forms for Customer Feedback

Pharmaceutical companies often need to collect sensitive personal information for customer feedback. Insecure data collection can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides secure web forms that allow pharmaceutical companies to collect sensitive personal information securely for customer feedback. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR, PIPEDA, PDPA, HIPAA, CCPA, and others.

Secure File Sharing for Quality Assurance

Pharmaceutical companies often need to share sensitive quality assurance data. Insecure file sharing can lead to data breaches and loss of intellectual property. Kiteworks provides a secure file sharing platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to share sensitive quality assurance data securely and in compliance with GxP regulations. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and version control features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and protection of intellectual property.

Managed File Transfer for Data Migration

Pharmaceutical companies often need to transfer large files for data migration. Traditional file transfer methods can be slow, unreliable, and insecure. Kiteworks provides a managed file transfer solution that allows pharmaceutical companies to transfer large files quickly, reliably, and securely for data migration. The platform’s high-speed transfer, reliability, and security features ensure efficient and secure file transfer.

Secure Web Forms for Patient Consent

Pharmaceutical companies often need to collect sensitive personal information for patient consent. Insecure data collection can lead to data breaches and noncompliance with privacy regulations. Kiteworks provides secure web forms that allow pharmaceutical companies to collect sensitive personal information securely for patient consent. The platform’s encryption, access controls, and audit logging features ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR, PDPA, PIPEDA, HIPAA, DPA 2018, and others.

Pharma & Life Sciences FAQs

Pharmaceutical companies can use secure file sharing platforms like Kiteworks that provide end-to-end encryption, granular access controls, and comprehensive audit trails specifically designed for clinical trial collaboration. The Kiteworks Private Data Network ensures data confidentiality, integrity and availability while maintaining HIPAA compliance, GxP compliance, EHDS compliance, GDPR compliance, and other regulations. Features like version control protect critical intellectual property (IP) and personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI) during drug discovery and trial phases, while detailed audit logs provide the documentation required for regulatory submissions.

Biotech companies should utilize managed file transfer (MFT) solutions that can handle large genomic datasets securely and efficiently. Kiteworks’ secure MFT solution, part of the Kiteworks Private Data Network provides high-speed data transfers with enterprise-grade encryption, ensuring that sensitive genome sequencing data remains protected during transmission. The platform’s access controls allow precise permissions for different collaborators, while audit logs track all data access for HIPAA compliance, GxP compliance, EHDS compliance, GDPR compliance, and other data privacy regulations.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers can implement a unified secure collaboration platform like the Kiteworks Private Data Network that consolidates Kiteworks secure email, Kiteworks secure file sharing, secure virtual data rooms, and Kiteworks secure web forms under consistent security policies. This approach ensures that manufacturing process data shared with supply chain partners maintains GxP compliance while protecting trade secrets and other intellectual property (IP). Whatever platform you choose, be sure that it provides encryption for all communications, version control for manufacturing documentation, and comprehensive audit logs to demonstrate regulatory compliance during inspections.

Pharmaceutical companies conducting global clinical trials can utilize secure web forms that automatically encrypt patient recruitment information and adverse event data at the point of collection. These forms should be designed to comply with multiple international data privacy regulations simultaneously, including GDPR for European trials, PIPEDA for Canadian studies, and PDPA for Asia-Pacific research. The platform should provide role-based access controls for different trial stakeholders (investigators, monitors, data managers) and maintain comprehensive audit logs that support regulatory inspections. Automated data validation features help ensure data quality for clinical trial submissions while protecting patient privacy across all jurisdictions. Kiteworks Kiteworks secure web forms provide pharmaceutical companies these protections and support HIPAA compliance, EHDS compliance, GDPR compliance, and many others.

Pharmaceutical companies can leverage managed file transfer (MFT) solutions specifically designed for regulatory submissions that provide reliable, high-speed transfer capabilities for large datasets required by FDA, EMA, and other regulatory compliance bodies. The platform should offer automated workflows that ensure data integrity checks, maintain detailed audit logs for regulatory review, and provide real-time tracking of submission status. Integration with existing regulatory systems helps streamline the submission process while maintaining compliance with validation requirements. Kiteworks’ secure MFT, part of the Kiteworks Private Data Network, streamlines and secures large-scale file transfers, accessing data wherever it’s stored and eliminating manual processes, and maintaining rigorous security standards.