It’s hard to imagine being in business these days without a website.
Web design trends change quickly, and if you’re not staying on top of critical changes, it may be costing you more than you think.
While a great website can attract new clients, as it becomes outdated, it can deter people from trusting you, including existing patients.
One laptop is stolen every 53 seconds. Seventy million smartphones are lost each year, with only 7 percent recovered.
The statistics are scary, yet most of us hang to the “not us” belief as we go about our busy days.
We read the stories. We know we should take security more seriously.
2020 was a year of rapid growth for telehealth. Desire for the technology happened so fast, many healthcare organizations jumped on board with various video conferencing and messaging apps without really thinking about the consequences. And that left vulnerabilities.
It’s easy to do. You’re bored. You head over to the app store and browse. You find something that looks interesting, download it, and start using it.
Rinse. Repeat. Until your phone is filled with a variety of applications you may or may not use.
Privilege. It’s defined as: a special right or advantage granted or available only to a particular individual or group.
In an information technology context, privilege is the authority granted to an account or process within a system or network. Privilege provides the necessary authorization to override, bypass, or otherwise move past security constraints to gain access to accounts or systems.
Have you ever logged in when you arrive at the office, clicked to get work done, and sat there waiting while everything loads? You wait, and wait some more. You open a new browser window. Maybe reboot to try and speed things up. You have work to do, and this is slowing you down.
Imagine someone setting up a profile in your database with the intent to fraud the system. Think it couldn’t happen to you? Think again.
Synthetic identities are created to look like real clients, but are fabricated by criminals looking for an entry into the system.
A mobile device management (MDM) policy helps establish rules for using and securing mobile devices within your business environment. If you leave this to chance, you open yourself up to a variety of cybercriminal behaviors.
According to Verizon’s Mobile Security Index 2021, 40 percent of respondents stated mobile devices are their biggest IT security threat.
Need to check your bank account? Login using a password.
Have to catch up on work? Login to the network with a password.
Ready to join your workout class via Zoom? Tap in your password there too.
Passwords are a big part of our lives, and have been for years.
How fast can technology change an industry? We’ve witnessed it first hand this past year.
In 2019, just two percent of acute care and long-term post-acute care providers used IT-driven strategies for patient care.
Compare that to the end of 2020, when 95 percent of all reporting health centers had segued into using IT in some capacity.