Case Study: U.S. Healthcare Services Company achieves automated PHI/PI discovery and HIPAA-compliant AWS migration with PKWARE

Data Privacy and Protection at a U.S. Healthcare Services Company

Healthcare Services Company, a U.S. healthcare management services provider with more than 11,000 employees and roughly $7B in annual revenue, needed to modernize an on‑premises data lake to AWS while protecting PHI/PI across disparate structured, semi‑structured and unstructured stores and remaining HIPAA‑compliant. After finding their Delphix masking solution could not support cloud targets like Amazon EMR and S3, they sought a platform‑agnostic automated discovery and masking solution and engaged PKWARE.

PKWARE deployed its data discovery and protection solution — including automated discovery, element‑level masking/obfuscation and encryption, reporting and dashboards, and PKWARE IDPs — integrated with AWS (EC2, EMR, S3). PKWARE automated detection and protection at scale, enabled secure migration of sensitive PI/PHI to S3, met HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA requirements, eliminated much of the manual scanning work, and used out‑of‑the‑box scripts to streamline deployment and orchestration.