Cybersecurity guidance for small businesses and healthcare practices, covering compliance risks, data protection, and real-world security threats.
If you run a small medical or dental practice, you have probably gotten a few emails lately warning you that major new HIPAA rules are coming and you need to act right now. Some of that is true. A lot of it is the same fear pitch every IT and compliance vendor sends when they […]
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When someone leaves a medical practice, the schedule gets covered and the role gets backfilled. Their access to your systems is usually the one thing that stays exactly where it was. It’s not a dramatic problem. Nothing breaks the day someone walks out the door. There’s no alert and no error message. That’s exactly why
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Shared logins healthcare offices still use are one of those things almost everyone knows aren’t ideal, and yet they still exist everywhere. This isn’t usually because anyone is careless or ignoring best practices. In most cases, shared accounts show up for very practical reasons: speed, staffing changes, legacy systems, or workflows that were set up
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Medical Practice Backups: Why “We Have Backups” Isn’t Enough Ask a medical practice whether their medical practice backups are in place and you’ll almost always get the same answer: “Yes, we have backups.” This is especially common when medical practice backups are set up once and never tested again.. What’s far less common is a
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Most HIPAA Violations Medical Practices Don’t Realize Are Violations Most HIPAA violations medical practices face don’t come from negligence or bad intent. They come from assumptions. “We’re careful.” “We trust our staff.” “We use secure systems.” “We’ve never had a problem.” Unfortunately, HIPAA enforcement doesn’t care about intent. It cares about risk exposure, safeguards, and
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Healthcare IT support on Long Island has entered a critical phase for small healthcare practices. Independent healthcare practices on Long Island are under more IT, cybersecurity, and regulatory pressure than ever before, and most don’t realize how exposed they really are. Insurance requirements are tightening, cyber threats are increasing, and “good enough” IT setups are
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Most small businesses don’t realize that their employees’ Microsoft 365 passwords may already be circulating on the dark web. And no, this doesn’t require your business to be “hacked.” Credentials often get exposed through password reuse, old breaches, or employees signing up for third-party apps with their work email. Once a single password is leaked,
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