HCLTech partnered on a collaborative journey to enable secure protection for PHI and PII data, resilient architecture and scalable compliance across AWS, GCP and on-prem platforms for a leading Fortune 500 healthcare company based in the US.
The Challenge
Achieving consistent PHI/PII protection and compliance across a Hybrid multicloud environment
Managing sensitive data in healthcare is rarely straightforward, especially across hybrid environments under intense regulatory scrutiny. Our client needed to protect PHI and PII across cloud and on-prem systems while maintaining high-performing, uninterrupted business operations. The core challenge was overcoming architectural, application and platform-specific constraints to achieve consistent, enterprise-wide data protection.
- Protecting sensitive healthcare data across AWS, Google BigQuery and legacy on-prem platforms, each with distinct integration and operational complexities.
- Working within application constraints such as pre-encrypted data objects, while preserving user context to enforce strict role-based access controls.
- Managing cloud security fundamentals at scale, including certificate management, IAM, binding roles/privileges to policies and consistent audit log formatting.
- Implementing centralized logging and monitoring without compromising performance, redundancy, or disaster recovery readiness.
The Objective
Building enterprise-grade data protection without disrupting operations or compliance
We set a clear goal: deliver dynamic, enterprise-grade data protection that ensures uninterrupted operations and strict regulatory compliance.
- Implement masking and tokenization that function consistently across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Strengthen HIPAA compliance without introducing latency or disrupting critical business processes.
- Design a resilient architecture with centralized, always-on policy enforcement.
- Establish a scalable foundation to support future security enhancements and evolving requirements.
The Solution
Implementing a unified data protection framework across hybrid cloud and on-prem
HCLTech combined deep engineering expertise with a hybrid-cloud approach to implement a comprehensive data protection framework, bringing together Protegrity’s capabilities and the flexibility needed to operate seamlessly across environments.
- Architected robust, high-availability deployments spanning on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
- Enabled dynamic protection using data security gateways, REST APIs and BigQuery user-defined functions (UDFs).
- Protected sensitive data with masking and tokenization, governed through centralized, unified policies.
- Developed custom integrations to meet nuanced application requirements while preserving end-user context end-to-end.
The Impact
Enterprise-wide protection with built-in resilience and audit readiness
The program delivered a secure, compliant data protection backbone that not only meets current requirements but also enables stronger resilience, governance and long-term security modernization. The client now benefits from unified masking and tokenization across their environment, improved operational continuity and an architecture designed to evolve with future needs.
- Architected robust, high-availability deployments spanning on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
- Established end-to-end protection for sensitive healthcare data across the hybrid estate.
- Improved operational resilience through streamlined failover and intelligent traffic management.
- Enabled centralized visibility to support compliance reporting and audit readiness.
- Delivered a future-ready architecture that supports continuous security enhancement and modernization.
