Sector Briefing

KEEP PATIENT RECORDS SAFE AND THE DOORS OPEN

Healthcare is the most-attacked industry in the country, and a clinic that cannot reach its EHR cannot see patients. When patient records are exposed, the fallout goes past the outage: HIPAA reporting duties, an OCR investigation, and patient trust that is slow to win back. We deliver HIPAA-aligned security and reliable IT sized for an independent practice, not a hospital's budget.

Threat Profile

WHERE HEALTHCARE GETS HIT

01

Ransomware on Patient Records & EHR

Attackers lock up your records, steal a copy, and demand payment twice over: once to give access back, once to keep patient data off the internet. Every hour you are locked out of the EHR is lost revenue, and you still owe patients a breach notice.

02

Patient-Data Breach & HIPAA Penalties

A misaddressed email, a stolen laptop, or one staffer with too much access can expose protected health information. Under the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules, that means reporting, possible fines, and a hit to your reputation.

03

EHR & Practice Downtime

Scheduling, charting, billing, and e-prescribing only work when the systems are up. An unpatched server, a backup that never ran, or a ransomware hit can stop patient care and cash flow at the same moment.

04

Risk From Billing & IT Vendors

Your billing company, IT vendor, and cloud apps all touch patient data. Without signed business associate agreements and checked controls, their weakest link becomes your reportable breach.

Our Approach

DEFENSE IN DEPTH

We never rely on a single control. We layer protection around your business, so one failure never becomes a breach.

Defense in depth: layered protection wrapping the business — email and perimeter, identity and access, devices and endpoints, cloud and data.
Email & PerimeterFiltering · anti-phishing
Identity & AccessMFA · conditional access
Devices & Endpoints24/7 managed detection
Cloud & DataHardening · immutable backups
Your business & data
Compliance & Standards

WHAT YOU'RE HELD TO

The frameworks, regulations, and contractual demands that shape security in your sector, and that we build your program to satisfy.

HIPAA Security Rule
HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
HITECH Act
NIST CSF 2.0
Cyber Insurance Requirements
How We Engage

OUR PLAYBOOK

01

HIPAA Security Risk Assessment

The documented Security Rule risk analysis HIPAA requires and auditors ask to see, showing where patient data lives, how it could be exposed, and a fix list ranked by what matters most.

02

Backups That Survive Ransomware

Tested, off-site backups of your EHR and practice systems that attackers cannot alter or delete, with clear recovery targets, so a hit costs you hours, not days of closed doors.

03

Managed IT That Keeps the Practice Running

Patching, encryption, email security, and threat protection across every workstation and device, keeping charting, scheduling, and billing online and patient data locked down.

Field-Proven

Our work follows NIST CSF 2.0 and maps straight to the HIPAA Security Rule, led by a Certified Ethical Hacker — so the money you spend on security produces the exact documentation regulators and cyber insurers ask for.

Start With a Free 30-Minute Conversation

NO PRESSURE.
JUST A PLAN.

Cybersecurity gap, IT problem, or just not sure where to begin? We'll listen first, recommend second, and only propose what actually serves you.

connor@tremodi.com