Secure Infrastructure for Health Data — ISO27001 Compliant

Health Data is a Special Case — Both Technically and Regulatorily

Processing health data fundamentally differs from traditional corporate IT. It involves not just personal data, but highly sensitive information as defined by Article 9 of the GDPR. Diagnoses, lab results, therapy progress, medication plans, imaging data, and treatment documentation are extremely sensitive. A technical error, security incident, or inadequately secured operational process not only jeopardizes business processes but also the integrity of individuals.

The requirements for infrastructure that operates such systems far exceed those of traditional web or SaaS platforms. This is where operational sovereignty distinguishes itself from mere software projects.

Security Begins in Operations — Not in Code

Most discussions revolve around encryption, pseudonymization, encryption in transit, and secure authentication. All correct. But without stable, well-controlled, auditable, and regulated infrastructure operations, all of this remains mere cosmetics.

Even perfectly encrypted data is of little help if:

• Access controls at the system level are not traceable
• Administrative processes are not documented and controlled
• Key management is not properly segmented
• Backup and recovery concepts are not regularly tested
• Deployment processes are not fully auditable

In medical IT, it’s about more than just availability. It’s about complete transparency over all system states, permissions, maintenance activities, and incidents. Nothing can be “approximately right” here.

What ISO27001 Really Means in the Context of Health Data

ISO27001 is more than a certificate for bid documents. It defines the technical and organizational foundation on which secure systems are operated.

Health Data Cannot Tolerate Black Box Infrastructure

As soon as infrastructure components lie outside one’s control, significant risks arise in this area. Platform providers with globally distributed control planes, shared responsibility models without full access to audit logs, or key management systems centrally operated by third parties are in direct conflict with the demand for complete traceability of data processing.

Those operating systems for health data need no platform promises, but technical reality: control, transparency, and complete documentation of operational processes.

Conclusion

In medical IT, operations determine security. Not the marketing brochure, not the whitepaper. But the clean technical mapping of all processes — from deployment to recovery. ISO27001 provides the foundation for processing health data on an infrastructure that is also sustainably viable from a regulatory standpoint.

This is precisely what we have aligned our Enterprise Cloud with. Our ISO27001-certified operations guarantee the secure processing of sensitive data.