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Protect sensitive information
at the point of access.

Patient records, participant data, and research results require clear application boundaries. Galen helps healthcare and biotech teams examine who can reach that information and catch changes that expose it more broadly.

Available now: Galen Policy Beta and Managed Galen Security Audits. Self-service Galen Security is coming soon.

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Deterministic analysis. Inspectable evidence. Your team’s decisions.

ILLUSTRATIVE BOUNDARYA research reporting endpoint
ACTORStudy collaborator
OPERATIONRead a study summary
PROTECTED RESOURCE

Participant contact details

INTENDED BOUNDARY

Summary responses exclude participant contact fields.

The issue to investigate

A shared serializer adds contact details to the collaborator’s summary response.

The response exposes private fields beyond the approved summary boundary.

Conceptual example, not live Galen output. Recheck the actual implementation after a correction.

WHAT IS AT STAKE

The same record can require different access for different people.

Patients, care teams, researchers, sponsors, support staff, and service accounts do not need the same information. A user’s sign-in status alone cannot establish permission to read a patient record, export participant details, or view confidential research fields.

A new portal, reporting feature, or AI-assisted workflow can change those boundaries without changing the visible user experience. Galen examines the code paths and controls behind sensitive data operations, helping your team investigate the access decision where the information is actually read or returned.

Privacy
Examine private fields and record-level access.
Collaboration
Separate institutional, study, and role boundaries.
Research value
Limit exposure of confidential results and materials.

PUT GALEN TO WORK

Check the change.
Understand the wider risk.

GO DEEPER WITH AN AUDIT

Review the application paths behind sensitive data flows.

Galen Security supports deeper code and API review around sensitive reads, writes, and responses. Findings carry the relevant path and control evidence, helping your team understand which actor can reach which information and why the implementation permits it.

A Managed Security Audit can focus the engagement on an agreed portal, research application, or integration. Confirm the scope and data-handling arrangements before sharing review materials. The resulting technical evidence supports your security process; clinical validation and regulatory compliance remain separate responsibilities.

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CHECK WHILE YOU BUILD

Preserve approved data access as workflows evolve.

Galen Policy helps developers review supported security findings and changes to the application’s access behavior. Review the recovered rules with the responsible data and application owners, correct unsafe assumptions, and approve the intended baseline.

Later checks can surface a new grant, removed guard, or widened field exposure. That gives a developer or coding agent a focused correction task when a new export, role, or serializer changes the privacy boundary.

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WHERE TO FOCUS

Review the boundary, not just the screen.

Boundary or decisionWhat needs attentionEvidence to inspect
Patient and participant accessChanging a record ID reaches another person’s information.The caller, record lookup, and ownership or institutional restriction.
Study and sponsor separationA shared route admits the wrong collaborator to a study’s data.The study selection and role or scope controls in code.
Reports and research outputsA summary includes private identity fields or confidential results.The fields returned and the approved exposure boundary.

A PRACTICAL STARTING POINT

Begin with a clearly defined data boundary.

  1. 01

    Identify the protected information.

    Name the records, fields, roles, and workflows in scope.

  2. 02

    Inspect the implementation.

    Use Policy during changes and Security for deeper path and control review.

  3. 03

    Retain the correction evidence.

    Record the reviewed version, decision, changed path, and validation outcome.

BUILD WITH BETTER EVIDENCE

Make sensitive-data access easier to inspect.

Discuss an application audit with Telhawk and use Galen Policy to help keep approved boundaries intact during development.

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