Agencja Unii Europejskiej ds. Cyberbezpieczeństwa, Wdrażanie technik pseudonimizacji

MARCH 2022

DEPLOYING PSEUDONYMISATION TECHNIQUES

The case of the Health Sector

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

As the healthcare domain is attempting to make the most of the evolving technical landscape and adapt the provision of services to fulfil the growing needs of patients in a timely manner, additional cybersecurity and data protection challenges come into play. The integration of new technologies in already complex IT infrastructures opens up new challenges regarding data protection and cybersecurity.

This is due to the growing need to exchange and share the health related information of individuals among different stakeholders. It is therefore essential for the entities processing personal data, on the one hand, to collect and further process only data that are necessary for their purposes and, on the other hand, to employ proper organisational and technical measures for the protection of such personal data.

Pseudonymisation is increasingly becoming a key security technique for providing a means...