Business Innovator Awards 2017

, grow even further and support a wider range of clients as the firm looks towards a bright and exciting future, as Julian concludes. “In January 2017, the UK Government sponsored a project to demonstrate how our Information Shield product could be used to deliver secure big data processing services in the cloud. These secure big data services are required to allow authorised users to request validated access to Special Personally Identifiable Information (SPII) from multiple information suppliers, subject to rigorously controlled restrictions on the requests that may be satisfied by the service.” The project was run in collaboration with the WMG Cyber Security Centre at the University of Warwick, who evaluated the security patterns employed within the demonstration. UK Government Certified penetration testing was used to verify the security controls implemented within the demonstration, in preparation for production service launch. “We are now implementing the production version of this cloud service, and are working with pharmaceutical and healthcare customers to develop non- government applications of this service. We are particularly excited by the potential of this service to transform clinical research by allowing individuals to subscribe to scientific analysis of their healthcare data without allowing the research programmes to access their data directly. Researchers simply define the analysis that they want to run on our health records, get the analysis independently reviewed to ensure that it does not inadvertently disclose confidential information, and publish their request for analysis to individuals in their target demographic. The individuals simply decide whether they want to support the research and whether they are satisfied with the independent reports on the proposed analysis and the tests that will be used to protect their confidential information. The processing itself occurs within security hardened facilities, which are specifically designed to manage secure processing of encrypted data according to contractually agreed conditions. The individual can even view the results before allowing the researchers to access them.” “Ultimately, Thinkingsafe believe the ability to securely share information between people across the supply chain and securely integrate with third party equipment, which in most cases was never designed to protect confidential information from the high level threats seen by our customers today, combined with the unique capabilities of encrypted big data processing, has potential to transform the way we all do business in the future.” Contact: Julian Dean Contact Email: julian.dean@think- ingsafe.com Address: Orchard Building, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK Phone: 0844 842 8500 Web Address: thinkingsafe.com Thinking Safe