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Cybersecurity Services for Alphanumeric Systems

Founded in 1979, Alphanumeric Systems is a woman-owned Raleigh, North Carolina firm delivering medical communications, pharmacovigilance, contact centre and technical services to life sciences and healthcare organisations.

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TypeMid-Market VAR
HQRaleigh, North Carolina
Focuscontact centre services, medical communications, pharmacovigilance, regulatory support, technical services, professional staffing, patient engagement, life sciences
SizeMid-Market
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CWS is not affiliated with Alphanumeric Systems. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.

Company Profile

Alphanumeric Systems at a glance

Founded
1979
Operates in
Raleigh, North Carolina (headquarters)
Verticals
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare providers, life sciences
Ownership
Privately held and woman owned. Karen Braswell is owner and chairwoman of the board

Compiled from public sources: https://www.alphanumeric.com/en/about-us, https://www.alphanumeric.com/technical-services, https://www.alphanumeric.com.

Industry Context

The Challenge for Mid-Market Resellers

Alphanumeric Systems opened in Raleigh in 1979 and now sells pharmacovigilance, medical communications, regulatory support and patient engagement services to pharmaceutical sponsors. The older technical services line survives alongside it, covering network and telephony engineering, hardware procurement and installation, end user support, laboratory support and professional staffing. Karen Braswell owns the business and chairs the board. What the public material never describes anywhere is a security practice

Running a medical information contact centre means holding adverse event reports and patient identifiable records on behalf of sponsors who answer to drug regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. That makes Alphanumeric a third party in a chain where the vendor risk assessment now arrives before the contract does. Sponsors want evidence rather than assurance, meaning a recognised attestation, a documented incident response process, and proof that the telephony and laboratory environments this team supports are segmented and monitored. None of it appears in what the company publishes. A firm that spent 45 years earning trust in Raleigh can still lose a renewal to a questionnaire nobody inside is positioned to answer

The answer CWS supplies does not require Alphanumeric to build a security team it would then use intermittently. Engagements run under the Alphanumeric name, against one delivery standard, and reach wherever the client base does across the United States and Canada, with French language delivery where Quebec or Canadian federal work calls for it. Scoping, quoting and project tracking sit in Corova, so a readiness assessment built for one sponsor can be repeated for the next without rebuilding the paperwork from scratch

Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for Alphanumeric Systems

The move into life sciences raised the compliance stakes without changing the shape of the company. Alphanumeric now sits inside pharmaceutical supply chains where a failed vendor assessment ends a relationship faster than a bad quarter does. Renting the security bench costs considerably less than losing one sponsor

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