Protected health information (PHI) is now worth more on the black market than credit card data, making healthcare organizations a prime cybercrime target. From a security perspective, data in transit is data at risk. Healthcare IT teams must review their exposure to attack through the tools, technologies and processes they employ to externally share protected data. This white paper addresses seven security controls that are key to assuring HIPAA compliance in these external data sharing processes and how they translate to improvements you should integrate into your processes and tools.