Industries & sectors – Protecting sensitive health data

Patient data: backed up and verifiable

A system failure on Monday morning with a full waiting room is no reason to panic with the right backup – just a restore.

Why centron

What a backup for health data must deliver

Patient data is among the most sensitive information there is – backing it up is an obligation, not a precaution.

Stored immutably

Backups are stored immutably via the object lock function of S3 Object Storage: within the retention period they cannot be overwritten or deleted – not even with stolen credentials.

Automated, not manual

Backups run to schedule without anyone having to remember. Failed runs report themselves instead of failing silently.

Documented for audits

Certificates with scope, documentation of technical and organisational measures and the data processing agreement are available in the Trust Center – the basis for your processing register.

Restores are testable

A backup is only as good as the last successful restore. Test restores can be scheduled instead of becoming an experiment in an emergency.

From risk analysis to operations

Retain, delete, restore

The GDPR requires both: keeping data available as long as retention obligations demand, and deleting it afterwards. Both belong in the backup strategy, not in a handwritten note. Retention rules in the object storage let periods expire automatically – and anything inside the period is protected against modification. Which periods apply to your institution is your decision; you get the technical implementation.

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View evidence in the Trust Center
  • Object lock – immutable for the retention period
  • Periods – retention and deletion as you define them
  • Separated – independent of the production system
  • Germany – processing without third-country transfer
Recommended modules

The right centron products

Clinics and medical institutions typically implement IT security with these modules – combinable and extensible at any time.

S3 Object Storage
From
5,00 € / month
Object lock
  • Immutable backups
  • 0,02 € per GB
  • Outbound traffic free
cBacks Backup
Price
on request
Automated backup
  • Scheduled, not manual
  • Retention as defined
  • Restores are testable
cProtect
From
0,03 € / month
Recovery in seconds
  • 15-minute replication
  • Failover in seconds
  • Separate fire compartment
In brief

How do you back up patient data in a GDPR-compliant way?

GDPR-compliant backup of patient data requires automated runs, immutable storage and documented retention and deletion periods. The core building block is S3 Object Storage from 5,00 € per month with object lock, complemented by cBacks for automation and cProtect for fast recovery. The infrastructure runs in our own German data centres, certified to ISO 27001 based on IT-Grundschutz (BSI certificate BSI-IGZ-0773) and with an unqualified BSI C5:2020 Type 1 attestation. New accounts receive €200 in starting credit.

Modules and prices
ModulePrice
S3 Object Storagefrom 5,00 € / month
cBacks Backupon request
cProtectfrom 0,03 € / month
Industries & sectors FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long must patient data be retained?

The periods follow from the treatment context and professional regulations – usually ten years, in certain cases considerably longer. Which period applies to your institution is for you or your legal advisors to decide. Technically we implement it through retention rules in the object storage: inside the period the backup is protected, afterwards it expires automatically.

Does a backup protect against ransomware?

Only if it sits beyond the attackers reach. Ransomware typically encrypts everything reachable from the infected system – including attached backups. That is why centron keeps backups in a separated environment and immutable via object lock: within the retention period they cannot be overwritten, not even with stolen credentials.

Where are the backups stored?

Exclusively in German data centres, with no transfer to third countries. The deployment location for cloud workloads is our own data centre in Hallstadt near Bamberg. The corresponding evidence – certificates with scope, technical measures and the data processing agreement – is available in the Trust Center.
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