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.
CWS is not affiliated with Alphanumeric Systems. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.
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.
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
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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