Pharmaceutical Industry Security Assessment
Comprehensive security assessment designed specifically for pharmaceutical organizations, addressing the unique security challenges of drug development, clinical trials, manufacturing, and distribution. Our specialized assessment examines intellectual property protection, research data security, regulatory compliance, and supply chain integrity to secure your most valuable assets and ensure compliance with industry regulations.
In scope
- IP protection controls assessment
- Clinical trial data security
- Lab environment security evaluation
- Manufacturing system security
- FDA compliance assessment
- Supply chain integrity verification
- Research collaboration security
- Drug safety systems review
- Third-party research partner assessment
- Patient data protection review
You receive
- Pharmaceutical security assessment report
- Regulatory compliance gap analysis
- IP protection framework
- Research data security roadmap
- Manufacturing security enhancement plan
- Clinical trial security procedures
- Supply chain security recommendations
- Remediation priority matrix
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Pharmaceutical Security Assessment
$45K
Research and compliance focus: up to 250 employees, 1 site and up to 5 research partners. Covers IP protection controls, research and clinical trial data security, patient data protection and a regulatory gap analysis. Interviews and document review.
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 1
- vendors
- 5
- IP protection controls assessment
- Research and clinical trial data security review
- Patient data protection review
- Regulatory compliance gap analysis
- Assessment report with remediation priority matrix
- — Manufacturing and lab system security evaluation
- — Supply chain integrity verification
- — Security architecture design
- — Penetration testing
Comprehensive Pharmaceutical Security Program
$75K
Up to 1,000 employees, up to 3 sites and up to 10 research partners. Adds lab environment and manufacturing system security, drug safety systems, research collaboration security and supply chain integrity, with clinical trial security procedures.
- employees
- 1000
- Sites
- 3
- vendors
- 10
- Everything in the research and compliance tier
- Lab and manufacturing system security evaluation
- Supply chain integrity verification
- Third-party research partner assessments (up to 10)
- Clinical trial security procedures and manufacturing enhancement plan
- — Multi-country operations assessment
- — Target security architecture design
- — Integrated compliance framework across regulations
- — Penetration testing of plant or lab networks
Enterprise Pharmaceutical Security Framework
$120K
Up to 2,500 employees, up to 10 sites across countries and up to 25 research partners. Adds a global operations assessment, a target security architecture for research, clinical and manufacturing environments, and one integrated compliance framework.
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 10
- vendors
- 25
- Everything in the comprehensive tier
- Global, multi-site operations assessment
- Target security architecture document
- Integrated compliance framework mapping all applicable requirements
- Executive and board-level briefing
- — Implementation of the architecture
- — Penetration testing and red teaming
- — Ongoing compliance monitoring
- — Organizations above 2,500 employees (scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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