Data integrity is an ever-increasing concern in life sciences, with medical device manufacturers feeling much of the conformity backlash. There continues to be heightened regulatory focus on diverse cybersecurity topics, including data integrity.
Let’s start this piece with a question for ourselves: do we still need password expiration as a security measure? In today’s life science industry, especially the pharmaceutical sector, a number of compliance reasons, guidelines, and agency regulations are responsible for an organization’s requirement to have their employees change their passwords every so often. It is now fair to say that we arrived at a point in time where most of the reasons behind the password expiration policy seem obsolete.