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Get ahead in the tech landscape: Windows 10's support concludes in 2025. Contemplating a shift to Windows 11? Uncover solutions and answers in our blog. Let Derive Technologies lead your effortless transition.

Navigating the Windows Evolution: From 10 End-of-Support to 11 Migration Guide

Get ahead in the tech landscape: Windows 10's support concludes in 2025. Contemplating a shift to Windows 11? Uncover solutions and answers in our blog. Let Derive Technologies lead your effortless transition.

Discover how Derive Technologies as your IT partner can streamline your migration process by involving key stakeholders and utilizing technology assessments.

Why Assessments Are Crucial Before Any Major IT Transition

As technology evolves, organizations often find themselves needing to transition from older systems to newer ones, such as the recent shift from Windows 10 to Windows 11.&nbsp;While these transitions promise increased efficiency, enhanced security, and improved functionality, they come with their own set of challenges, especially before any migration can even begin.&nbsp;To ensure a seamless and cost-effective transition, IT assessments are absolutely crucial. In this blog post, you&rsquo;ll discover how including key stakeholders and utilizing technology assessments can streamline your migration process and IT solutions to ensure a fully aligned, strategic, and personalized migration plan that works uniquely for your business.
<h5>Why is Assessment Crucial?</h5>
Assessments, in the context of IT transitions, are the multi-layered process of thoroughly evaluating your existing technology stack and requirements before embarking on a significant migration. The importance of this step cannot be overstated, which is why we&rsquo;ve broken down all of the major phases and steps that need to be conducted from the outset.&nbsp;As an example, we&rsquo;ll be using the ongoing migration process many companies are facing as they look to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11:
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<li>Identify Key Stakeholders: Before diving into the technicalities, it's vital to identify who will be managing the migration. This ensures accountability and successful oversight throughout the process, whether it's the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or the IT department head. Ensuring alignment from day 1 will mitigate any risks or confusion along the way.</li>
<li>Device Audit: Conducting an inventory check of all devices within your organization is the next critical step. This includes desktops, laptops, tablets, and other devices running Windows 10. By doing so, you gain a comprehensive understanding of your hardware assets.</li>
<li>Compatibility Test: Assess which devices can be upgraded to Windows 11. Consider factors such as device age, chipset, and compatibility with the TPM security module. This evaluation helps you determine which devices are ready for the transition and which ones may require upgrades or replacements.</li>
<li>Budget Implications: Based on the compatibility test, you can calculate the potential costs involved. Knowing how many new devices are needed and if any require minor upgrades ensures financial transparency throughout the migration process.</li>
<li>Software Audit: Make a list of all the software applications currently in use within your organization, ranging from significant software suites to specialized tools. Assess their compatibility with the new Windows 11 operating system.</li>
<li>Plan For Upgrades: For software that isn't compatible, you'll need to either find alternatives or upgrade to versions compatible with Windows 11.</li>
<li>Security Considerations: Upgrading to a new OS like Windows 11 also presents an opportunity to address lingering endpoint security concerns. As you audit devices and software, consider their security implications to ensure a more secure environment post-migration.</li>
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<h5>The Role of Assessments in IT Transitions</h5>
Assessments ensure that your IT transition is smooth, efficient, and cost-effective by providing you with a crystal clear roadmap for the migration that minimizes disruption and provides a clear understanding of your organization's existing IT infrastructure and requirements.&nbsp;Involving key stakeholders, such as the CTO or IT department head, in the assessment process is vital for several reasons. They are responsible for managing and overseeing the entire transition, ensuring that all steps are followed and that the migration is successful. Their involvement guarantees a unified vision and strategy for the transition.&nbsp;Utilizing tools and software solutions can help automate data collection, compatibility checks, and budget calculations, making assessments more accurate and efficient. Employing our advanced and AI-enabled platforms fosters a data-driven approach to ensure decisions are based on concrete information.
<h5>Successful Assessments With Derive Technologies</h5>
At Derive Technologies, we understand the significance of thorough assessments before any major IT transition. That&rsquo;s how we&rsquo;ve earned our proven and long-standing track record of helping businesses achieve successful migrations with comprehensive assessments.&nbsp;Here are a couple of examples from our previous clients:
A mid-sized manufacturing company needed to transition to a new ERP system. We conducted an assessment that identified compatibility issues with their existing hardware and software. By addressing these concerns in advance, we minimized downtime during the transition and saved the client significant money.
A financial institution required a transition to a more secure operating system. Through our assessment, we identified several security vulnerabilities in their existing infrastructure. By incorporating security measures into their migration plan, we ensured a more secure environment post-transition.
<h5>Navigating The Future of IT With Confidence</h5>
To summarize, assessments are the cornerstone of any successful IT transition. They provide the roadmap to navigate the complexities of migrating to new technologies, ensure cost-effectiveness, and improve overall efficiency for everyone in your organization.&nbsp;Derive Technologies is committed to helping businesses through this crucial phase by conducting assessments that pave the way for seamless and secure transitions. With our expertise, you can embrace the future of IT-integrated solutions with confidence.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">Contact us today</a> to receive personalized guidance for any of your business IT solutions.

Meta Prepare for Microsoft's Windows 10 End of Support with Derive Technologies. Keep reading to know how to safeguard your digital infrastructure, modernize your workplace, and upgrade server workloads.

What Microsoft's Windows 10 End-of-Support Means For Enterprises

End-of-support from major technology providers like Microsoft can bring complex and urgent challenges, especially when businesses rely heavily on cloud-based infrastructure, platforms, and applications to stay competitive. That&rsquo;s why Derive Technologies, your trusted partner for IT integrated solutions and digital infrastructure, dives deep into the implications and consequences of Microsoft's October 2025 deadline for Windows 10 to help you make informed decisions about your IT environment.
<h5>Understanding Microsoft End of Support</h5>
What happens when Windows 10 support ends? When a Microsoft product reaches its 'extended support end date,' it signals the end of patches, security updates, and official support from Microsoft. Without an additional purchase, any businesses using products that have reached this stage face greater vulnerability and increased risk to their security and compliance posture.&nbsp;These risks can have dramatic effects on productivity and the health of your organization and will only escalate over time. That&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s so crucial that businesses take proactive steps right now.
<h5>Why Microsoft Ends Support</h5>
Microsoft's decision to end support for older products is based on a commitment to advancing newer and better technologies that provide enhanced user interfaces, security capabilities, and more. While their innovation helps drive the industry forward and provide a more modernized, future-ready solution, it also means that businesses need to remain vigilant in managing their technology infrastructure.
<h5>End of Support: Windows Server 2012 And 2012 R2</h5>
Microsoft announced the end of support for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 on October 10, 2023. If you need to dig deeper into the support milestones for your Microsoft products, you can visit this helpful <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/">Microsoft Support Lifecycle</a> webpage for more personalized information.
<h5>Modernizing Your Workplace</h5>
Ensuring your workplace and IT infrastructure are as up-to-date as possible is no longer a luxury; it&rsquo;s a necessity in order to maintain the strongest defenses against cyberattacks and keep your operations more efficient and productive. Upgrading your workloads to the latest Windows Desktop, Server, or Application versions can go miles in keeping your business seamless and protected. The most important aspect is migrating to an in-support operating system for older desktop devices to enable continuous updates and improved security features. However, if technical constraints prevent modernization, you still have two core options: relocating your workloads to Azure or moving your applications and data to a new, up-to-date server.&nbsp;Doing nothing is technically also an option, but it comes with dramatically heightened cybersecurity risks and limited support if your systems or applications fail.
<h5>Advice For Pre-Windows 10 End-User Compute Workloads</h5>
If you are running Windows 8 or an older version of Windows 10, we strongly advise migrating to the latest Windows 11 build, and frankly, as quickly as possible. Windows 11 offers enhanced security, productivity, and management capabilities, and a migration timeline for most businesses ranges from a few months to a year. Time is of the essence!&nbsp;If upgrading to Windows 11 is not feasible, consider migrating your older Windows workloads to Azure through Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365.
<h5>Advice For Server Workloads: Windows Server, SQL Server, And Exchange Server</h5>
Every business is unique; unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all migration strategy. The decision to migrate to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments for your application workloads or migrate to Microsoft Azure for Extended Security Updates for three years depends on a number of variables that require deep assessment. Upgrading your office or data center servers to the latest Windows Server version is also an option, although it involves considerable costs and responsibilities. We recommend upgrading workloads and migrating them directly to Azure.
<h5>Explore Derive Technologies Managed Cloud Services</h5>
Derive Technologies has a track record of helping numerous organizations modernize and transition to the cloud. Our managed cloud services portfolio includes Azure Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud solutions, meaning there&rsquo;s a customizable solution for any and every organization. If you need guidance or support, don't hesitate to<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact"> contact us today for expert Windows migration assistance</a>.
<h5>Derive Technologies: Your Partner in Windows 11 and Future Transition</h5>
Will Microsoft really stop supporting Windows 10? Yes. Windows 11 is moving to a single yearly update cycle, with support maintained for the current and previous two feature updates before retirement.
How long will Windows 10 be supported enterprise? Keep in mind that Windows 10's end of life is scheduled for October 14, 2025. Derive Technologies is actively working with organizations to facilitate the transition to Windows 11 well in advance of this deadline.
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">Contact us today for expert guidance</a> tailored to your business's unique objectives and requirements, and let us empower your digital transformation journey.
<h5>Bonus: Microsoft End of Support: Help and Resources</h5>
To assist you in understanding and navigating Microsoft's end of support process, we have compiled a list of helpful resources:
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/">Microsoft Lifecycle FAQ &ndash; Windows products</a> <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness">Microsoft Windows for Business</a> <a href="/blogs/eyJpdiI6ImNlM0UydlZPUEJ2S3VTTkM5RWhOL1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZFpTWlZMVGRpeXFCNE40a2hLbHZDQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjOWVhMDY3OGFkZGM4YTZiOTlmYTk4MTNkZTYyM2JjM2I2NjM5OTcyNjU5OTg4NWM4MzIzNDdjYTIzNTVmNSIsInRhZyI6IiJ9/Microsoft%20announcement on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reaching end of support">Microsoft announcement on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reaching end of support</a> <a href="/blogs/eyJpdiI6ImNlM0UydlZPUEJ2S3VTTkM5RWhOL1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZFpTWlZMVGRpeXFCNE40a2hLbHZDQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjOWVhMDY3OGFkZGM4YTZiOTlmYTk4MTNkZTYyM2JjM2I2NjM5OTcyNjU5OTg4NWM4MzIzNDdjYTIzNTVmNSIsInRhZyI6IiJ9/Microsoft&rsquo;s%20Service Pack Lifecycle Policy">Microsoft&rsquo;s Service Pack Lifecycle Policy</a> <a href="/blogs/eyJpdiI6ImNlM0UydlZPUEJ2S3VTTkM5RWhOL1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZFpTWlZMVGRpeXFCNE40a2hLbHZDQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjOWVhMDY3OGFkZGM4YTZiOTlmYTk4MTNkZTYyM2JjM2I2NjM5OTcyNjU5OTg4NWM4MzIzNDdjYTIzNTVmNSIsInRhZyI6IiJ9/Microsoft%20Search by product name or time range for lifecycle information">Microsoft Search by product name or time range for lifecycle information</a> <a href="/blogs/eyJpdiI6ImNlM0UydlZPUEJ2S3VTTkM5RWhOL1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZFpTWlZMVGRpeXFCNE40a2hLbHZDQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjOWVhMDY3OGFkZGM4YTZiOTlmYTk4MTNkZTYyM2JjM2I2NjM5OTcyNjU5OTg4NWM4MzIzNDdjYTIzNTVmNSIsInRhZyI6IiJ9/Microsoft%20Azure Windows Virtual Desktop">Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop</a> <a href="/blogs/eyJpdiI6ImNlM0UydlZPUEJ2S3VTTkM5RWhOL1E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZFpTWlZMVGRpeXFCNE40a2hLbHZDQT09IiwibWFjIjoiNWVjOWVhMDY3OGFkZGM4YTZiOTlmYTk4MTNkZTYyM2JjM2I2NjM5OTcyNjU5OTg4NWM4MzIzNDdjYTIzNTVmNSIsInRhZyI6IiJ9/Microsoft%20Azure SQL Database">Microsoft Azure SQL Database</a> <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/updates-and-compliance/security-updates-in-windows">Microsoft overview of Security Updates for Windows Server</a>
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The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from Windows 10 to Windows 11 with Derive Technologies

In the fast-paced world of enterprise technology, staying up-to-date with hardware and software updates isn&rsquo;t just a luxury; it becomes a serious necessity at a certain point. Microsoft recently made a <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro">significant announcement</a> that will impact millions of users worldwide &ndash; the end of support for Windows 10 by October 14, 2025. This development raises a bevy of questions and concerns, especially for businesses relying on Windows 10 for daily operations and haven&rsquo;t started planning a company-wide upgrade.&nbsp;If you&rsquo;re simply wondering, &ldquo;Can I migrate Windows 10 to Windows 11?&rdquo; the answer is yes, but there is a time-consuming amount of fine print and pre-planning that needs to be conducted ahead of time. That&rsquo;s why it's absolutely essential to plan and execute the transition carefully to ensure the smoothest possible process with limited downtime and no interruption to your day-to-day.&nbsp;In this blog post, we'll explore the implications of this major migration and how Derive Technologies can be your trusted partner in navigating this significant change.
<h5>The Importance of Staying Updated with OS Versions</h5>
Windows 10 has been a reliable and robust operating system for many users and organizations for many years of prolific adoption. However, technology never stands still, and Microsoft is keen to continue to push the boundaries of its more future-ready software with Windows 11. It&rsquo;s the inevitable evolution of the Windows ecosystem, bringing in new features, enhanced security, and improved performance to your business&rsquo;s digital infrastructure.&nbsp;Why is it crucial to stay updated with operating systems?&nbsp;For starters, an updated OS ensures you have access to the latest security patches and updates, protecting your system from vulnerabilities and potential threats that bad actors continue to exploit. Moreover, all of the enhancements and improvements that come with Windows 11 may very likely lead to improved productivity, better compatibility with newer hardware and applications, and an enhanced user experience for every member of your business.
<h5>Why Companies Need to Start Planning Now</h5>
The deadline for the end of Windows 10 support is approaching, with Microsoft targeting October 2025. While it may seem like that&rsquo;s a long way away and plenty of time to transition, the process is almost always more time-consuming and complex than business leaders expect, depending on their organization's size and requirements.&nbsp;It's always early enough to start planning!&nbsp;The advantages of being proactive with your migration planning are vast. By initiating an upgrade now, you can:&nbsp;&nbsp;
Avoid the Last-Minute Rush: Not allowing your business an ample timeline leads to a rushed and inefficient migration process. Planning allows you to make informed decisions and execute them seamlessly, without impacting daily operations. &nbsp;
Minimize Disruption: A proactive approach allows you to identify and address potential roadblocks before they become major issues. It also ensures your employees experience minimal interruption.&nbsp;
Budget Appropriately: Knowing the scope of the migration in advance helps you allocate resources more efficiently, preventing unexpected costs down the line.&nbsp;
Enhance Security: An up-to-date operating system makes your organization less susceptible to security breaches, ensuring data integrity and customer trust.&nbsp;
How do I transfer software from Windows 10 to Windows 11? Transferring software from Windows 10 to Windows 11 may involve reinstalling compatible applications on your new OS. <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">Derive Technologies</a> can assist in evaluating software compatibility and recommending the best approach for your organization.
<h5>Auditing Your Full Stack</h5>
When planning a migration, especially one as significant as moving from Windows 10 to Windows 11, a comprehensive audit of your entire tech stack is a crucial first step in ensuring the transition is smooth, efficient, and cost-effective.&nbsp;Here&rsquo;s a high-level outline of everything this deep dive requires:
Identify Key Stakeholders
Before diving into the technicalities, identify who will be managing the migration. Typically, this would be the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or the IT department head. Whoever it is, their responsibility will be to directly manage and oversee the entire process, ensuring that all steps are followed and that the migration is successful.
Device Audit
Inventory Check: Start by taking stock of all the devices in your organization. If you have a large number of devices, say 5000, it's essential to know exactly what you're working with, from desktops and laptops to tablets and any other device running Windows 10.
Compatibility Test: Once you have a clear inventory, check which of these devices can be upgraded to Windows 11. Consider the age of the device, the chipset, and whether it has the TPM security module built into the motherboard. This test will give you a clear picture of which devices are ready for Windows 11 and which ones might need upgrades or replacements.&nbsp;Budget Implications: Based on the compatibility test, you can now calculate the potential costs involved. How many new devices will you need? Are there any that just require minor upgrades? Having a clear budget will ensure there are no financial surprises down the line.
Software Audit
List All Software: Make a list of all the software applications currently in use in your organization. This includes everything from major software suites to smaller, specialized tools.
Check Compatibility: Just like with devices, not all software will be compatible with Windows 11. Check the requirements of each software application and see if they're compatible with the new OS.
Plan for Upgrades: For software that isn't compatible, you'll need to either find alternatives or upgrade to a version that is compatible with Windows 11.
Security Considerations
Commitment to Upgrading: By deciding to upgrade to Windows 11, you're committing to a more secure OS. However, this is also an excellent opportunity to address any lingering endpoint security concerns.
Incorporate Security in the Audit: As you audit devices and software, also consider their security implications. Are there any devices that have had security issues in the past? Are there any software applications that are known to be vulnerable? Addressing these concerns now will ensure a more secure environment post-migration.
<h5>Understanding the Technical Aspects</h5>
A successful transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 involves a deep analysis and consideration of every computing aspect of your business, including:&nbsp;
Hardware Requirements: Windows 11 comes with specific hardware requirements that ensure a smooth upgrade. Some older devices may not be compatible with Windows 11 and might require replacement or upgrades. Better to find out sooner rather than later.&nbsp;
Software Considerations: In addition to hardware, software compatibility is a crucial factor. Your existing applications, platforms, and computing tools need to be compatible with Windows 11 to ensure successful migrations and uninterrupted productivity.&nbsp;
License Requirements: For those who have already upgraded some departments or branches or their business, Can you transfer Windows 11 to a new computer? Transferring Windows 11 to a new computer is possible, but it requires specific licensing and activation procedures that Derive Technologies can help manage for you.
<h5>Leveraging AI and Analytics for a Smooth Transition</h5>
A modern approach to OS migration involves leveraging artificial intelligence and analytics to streamline the process, maintain timelines, and keep your business objectives well on track. Derive Technologies offers you the ability to:&nbsp;
Monitor and Optimize: Gain real-time insights into individual machine usage, allowing you to optimize resources, identify necessary upgrades, and more accurately prepare for a migration.&nbsp;
Predictive Analytics: Predict hardware failures, such as battery replacements, before they occur, preventing unexpected downtime.&nbsp;
Derive Technologies offers <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">comprehensive IT integrated solutions</a> and computer services to make this transition as smooth as possible.
<h5>Derive Technologies: Your Partner in Windows 11 Migration</h5>
The transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is inevitable, and the clock is ticking. By starting your planning process now and partnering with Derive Technologies, you can ensure a smooth and efficient migration for you and every member of your business.&nbsp;Be sure to make the switch before it&rsquo;s crunch time. As you prepare for this exciting new chapter in your organization's IT infrastructure, remember that Derive Technologies is here to support you every step of the way.&nbsp;To learn more about how these IT solutions and IT consulting services can benefit your business, <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">CONTACT US TODAY</a>.
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Navigating Hybrid Multi-Cloud Challenges in Datacenter Management with Derive Technologies.

Navigating Hybrid Multi-Cloud Challenges in Datacenter Management

Can AI enhance analytics in business? In short: absolutely. In the fast-paced world of technology solutions, staying ahead of the curve is not just an option &mdash; it's an absolute necessity in order to retain a competitive edge. Companies that are able to proactively leverage emerging technologies can gain a significant advantage by streamlining processes and providing better customer experiences. At Derive Technologies, we understand the exciting potential of cutting-edge solutions &mdash; specifically, how AI improves business performance, the benefits of combining AI and IoT, and AI&rsquo;s impact across various industries. Let's delve into some of the emerging technologies that Derive, in conjunction with our partners, is implementing and explore how they are already making a difference.
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<h5>Healthcare - Patient Fall Prevention</h5>
Patient falls in healthcare facilities are a serious concern, both in terms of the individual patient&rsquo;s safety as well as financial repercussions for the hospitals themselves. Derive Technologies' partner, Artisight, addresses this issue head-on with their Patient Fall Prevention solution. This innovative service employs AI-enhanced technology to detect movements associated with falls before they occur.&nbsp;How? <a href="https://www.artisight.com/">ArtiSight</a> leverages existing camera setups and implements AI applications capable of analyzing a person&rsquo;s gait to predict falls before they happen, as well as their body temperature to predict and identify medical conditions that put them at higher risk for falls.&nbsp;In a hospital chain in the US, this technology successfully decreased patient falls by 78% and led to a 16% sustained productivity gain for healthcare workers. Through a mobile telecart system, healthcare staff was able to remotely monitor multiple patients at risk for falls, simultaneously improving their operations and level of patient care.
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Pre-bundled options catering to hospitals of different sizes ● Seamless interoperability with leading electronic health record (EHR) systems ● Early detection of potential falls, enhancing patient safety ● Improved hospital operations and financial performance ● Streamlined monitoring of patients with the ability to observe up to 12 patients on a single screen
<h5>Manufacturing - Intelligent Worker Safety</h5>
Workplace safety is a top priority for every business, but even more so in the manufacturing sector. Derive Technologies' showcase solution, powered by <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/">NVIDIA</a>'s Accelerated Computing Solutions (ACS), provides intelligent answers for worker safety needs that automate and streamline safety practices.&nbsp;By utilizing video data, AI, and access control, Derive&rsquo;s Nvidia-based solution ensures personnel adhere to personal protective equipment (PPE) guidelines and unauthorized individuals are prevented from accessing hazardous areas. In addition, it can deliver advanced behavior analytics that identify risky actions and potential hazards, facilitate post-incident investigations, and promote a healthier culture of workplace safety.
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Prevention of unsafe practices and unauthorized access ● Early detection of fire, smoke, and other hazards ● Real-time analytics for fall detection and improper usage of safety equipment ● Seamless integration with access control, cybersecurity framework systems
<h5>Airports - Enhance Security and Customer Experience</h5>
Perhaps more than anywhere else, airports are embracing computer vision and AI to bolster security and improve the customer experience. Derive Technologies' partner, <a href="https://es.axxonsoft.com/">Axxonsoft</a>, offers the Intelligent Airports solution that employs advanced AI models to detect potential threats and suspicious activities.&nbsp;This groundbreaking solution identifies anomalies and provides real-time insights to security personnel by analyzing body language, clothing, luggage, and more.&nbsp;Axxonsoft's AI-powered analytics help perform real-time security tasks, including facial recognition, license plate scanning, early fire detection, and potentially hazardous or dangerous object tracking.&nbsp;If a known criminal, a wanted person, or a flagged vehicle enters airport premises, for example, Axxonsoft&rsquo;s software can immediately alert the police or airport security. It can also notify personnel of early signs of fire hazards with enhanced fire and smoke detection in open spaces like the runway or areas with high ceilings like terminal halls or hangars. To go even further, it can also detect intrusions into restricted areas from any unauthorized parties.&nbsp;As a result, the heightened, technology-supported vigilance improves emergency response times and safeguards airport premises by tracking individuals' movements, vehicles, and items.
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Recognizing early signs of potentially dangerous situations through the monitoring of specific human postures and facial recognition ● Display of crowd density heatmaps to enhance customer experience through efficient queue management. ● Advanced monitoring tools that include interactive 3D maps, combined panoramic views from up to three camera feeds, sophisticated object tracking across multiple cameras, video walls, and more to reduce security risks ● Enhanced customer experience through efficient queue management ● Improved baggage handling and monitoring
<h5>Retail - Processes and Data Analysis Optimization&nbsp;</h5>
In the retail sector, optimizing processes and understanding customer behavior are crucial for success. Derive Technologies' partnership with <a href="https://es.axxonsoft.com/">Axxonsoft</a> will allow us to deliver their Intelligent Retail solution, which enables to collect and analyze visual data from stores and warehouses by harnessing the power of video analytics and AI. Intelligent Retail offers pre-built AI models for various applications, including point-of-sale (POS) supervision, queue management, and age and gender estimation. Rapid deployment capability is another benefit that enables fast improvements in retail operations.&nbsp;As the world&rsquo;s largest retailer, it&rsquo;s no surprise that Walmart uses AI technologies for optimizing every aspect of their company and stores, from forecasting sales demand to predicting consumer behavior. By analyzing customer data and individual shopper behavior in real-time, Walmart uses computer vision technology to monitor checkouts, which has dramatically reduced losses due to theft, scanning errors, fraud, and other causes. Their AI-enabled cameras track and analyze activities at both self-checkout registers and those manned by cashiers. When a potential issue arises, such as an item moving past a checkout scanner without getting scanned, the technology notifies checkout attendants so they can intervene.&nbsp;
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Estimation of age and gender of customers for demographic purposes ● Real-time queue management that enables more accurate personnel management in both short-term and long-term capacities ● POS supervision with receipt text overlay to prevent fraud, theft, and other problems. ● Intelligent video surveillance to ensure total control over all transactions and activities from entry points to cashiers and store aisles ● Comprehensive online reporting capabilities
<h5>Smart Spaces - Stadiums</h5>
Sporting and cultural events draw some of the largest crowds in the world, and with those crowds comes the need for highly advanced security measures. Derive Technologies' solution for smart stadiums employs AI-enabled video analytics to automate perimeter protection, crowd analytics, and other security elements, providing a safe and cohesive event experience that detects anomalies and unauthorized access. The solution's simple deployment and integration with <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/">NVIDIA</a>'s ACS servers make it an incredibly valuable asset for stadium security management.&nbsp;
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Demographic insights for crowd management and targeted retail services ● Heat mapping to monitor crowd density and dwell times ● Real-time queue management to estimate wait times, detect any potential public health hazards, and facilitate more efficient personnel management and staffing ● Seamless online reporting and rapid deployment
<h5>Transportation - Safety and Efficiency on Roadways</h5>
The transportation industry is rapidly evolving with the help of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/developers/vision-ai">Vision AI</a>. Derive Technologies' partner-enabled solution allows cities and municipalities to enhance safety and efficiency on roadways. By applying AI-enabled video analytics to existing camera networks, this groundbreaking solution is able to identify potential threats (including unsafe motor vehicle operation and wrong-way driver detection), optimize traffic flows, and bolster adherence to safety regulations. Smart lighting management and parking optimization represent additional applications. These advanced analytical tools collectively allow traffic management systems to anticipate congestion before it occurs and take proactive measures to reduce it. This predictive capability can help greatly optimize traffic signal timings, reduce waiting times at intersections, and improve overall traffic flow.&nbsp;
Key advantages of this solution include:
● Real-time monitoring of critical city infrastructure ● Enhanced security through license plate recognition and threat identification (such as erratic vehicles and wrong-way detection) ● Improved traffic flow and enforcement of moving violations by analyzing traffic patterns and unsafe vehicle operation Seamless online reporting and rapid deployment
<h5>Derive Technologies: Driving Business Innovation</h5>
Nowadays, high-growth technologies are central to your customers&rsquo; business innovations. In our world, data is at the heart of creating new opportunities for growth and differentiation.&nbsp;The collaboration between <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/">Derive Technologies</a> and its <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/partners">partners</a> reshapes industries through data analytics, IoT, and AI. These emerging technologies are not just buzzwords but actively transforming healthcare organizations, manufacturing businesses, airports, retail institutions, stadiums, and the transportation sector, to name but a few.&nbsp;Derive Technologies is at the forefront of the tech revolution by providing advanced <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">IT integrated solutions</a> that enhance safety, efficiency, and customer experiences. To learn more about how these solutions can benefit your business, <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">CONTACT US TODAY</a>.
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Accelerate Business with Data Analytics, IoT and AI: Emerging Technologies Transforming Industries

Explore the complexities of hybrid multi-cloud environments for datacenter managers, from assessing cloud requirements to managing data integrity and security. Learn how Derive Technologies addresses top concerns with expert insights.

Today's datacenter managers are tasked with providing the underlying computational, networking, and storage infrastructure necessary to support a wide array of business services and applications for internal and external users. All of this must be provided in a highly secure and reliable manner.
Computing resources are no longer defined by the capabilities provided solely by on-premise datacenters; they also encompass public cloud services provided by well-known organizations like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. (Note: A &ldquo;private&rdquo; cloud, as its name suggests, is a cloud computing environment devoted to the sole use of a single organization. They are most commonly deployed among today&rsquo;s large enterprise organizations but are also found in smaller entities.)
Datacenter managers are adopting innovative approaches to combine the best attributes of traditional datacenters plus the undeniable fast deployment and almost unlimited scalability benefits associated with cloud computing services. The best known is the hybrid multi-cloud platform, which is a combination of on-premises, private, and public cloud environments.
Hybrid multi-clouds enable organizations to distribute computing workloads across any number of multiple cloud services, while also allocating selected data and applications to their own datacenter facilities. This way, they can take advantage of the unique features and benefits of different cloud services while reserving on-premise resources for sensitive data or workloads that demand exceptionally low latency.
Implementing a robust and cost-efficient hybrid multi-cloud strategy presents a range of challenges for datacenter managers. Here to engage in Q&amp;A regarding these issues is Derive Technologies&rsquo; Heman Yung, Practice Lead in Datacenter and Hybrid Cloud. Heman has architected and implemented various datacenter solutions ranging from virtualization, compute and storage platform configurations, hyperconverged implementations, and backup and recovery solutions, including disaster recovery.
<h5>Needs Assessments</h5>
<h5>Q: No two companies are alike, and obviously, their computing needs and requirements vary enormously. How does Derive Technologies go about helping companies make intelligent assessments of their cloud computing requirements, and assemble a coherent hybrid multi-cloud strategy?</h5>
We work closely with our clients to understand both their business needs and the operational challenges they may currently be facing. With knowledge of a client&rsquo;s pain points, we help guide them towards one or more solutions best suited to address them. Derive helps our customers to understand the journey to hybrid and multi-cloud, and its inherent operational implications&mdash;as well as take that journey with them. With cloud services, the IT spend shifts from CapEx to OpEx, and understanding the financial costs required to transition and to maintain such services is paramount. Derive offers a cloud migration assessment where we evaluate the client&rsquo;s existing workloads, model those workloads to fit appropriate instances, and forecast those operational costs.
In terms of understanding our clients&rsquo; technical needs, we evaluate the existing infrastructure to determine their cloud integration readiness. For workloads and applications, Derive helps evaluate supportability in the cloud, performance needs, latency requirements, as well as application adjacency and dependencies. Derive provides requirements and recommendations to effectively integrate cloud service providers into a client&rsquo;s environment by extending on-premise networks into cloud providers. We analyze and determine optimal positioning for applications to ensure the transition and end-user experience is seamless. Derive Technologies&rsquo; wide diversity of IT infrastructure subject matter experts in many key areas helps clients adopt a successful and robust hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategy.
<h5>Data Management</h5>
<h5>Q: Managing data across multiple cloud platforms and a local datacenter is obviously complex. And ensuring data integrity and availability is crucial and challenging. Please shed some light on this topic.</h5>
Happy to do so. One of the main concerns for organizational administrators is the added complexity along with additional layers of management from an operations and maintenance perspective. We keep this concern top-of-mind when designing any solution for our customers. We want to make it easier&mdash;not harder&mdash;for our fellow IT technologists and admins. Today, there are several offerings that provide that &ldquo;single pane of glass&rdquo; for managing your multi-cloud environments, from on-premise infrastructure to public cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
Application mobility has also improved tremendously. No longer does it take days to migrate workloads between datacenters. Now, it can be accomplished within minutes. AI, machine learning, and analytics tools are also used in guiding us in making better decisions, such as automated provisioning of workloads to meet performance, capacity, and application SLA requirements.
<h5>Security and Compliance</h5>
<h5>Q: What are some concerns to keep top of mind?</h5>
This is a very complex and wide-ranging topic, and will require another in-depth article to discuss this topic adequately. But in general, protecting sensitive data and meeting regulatory compliance becomes increasingly complex in a multi-cloud environment. Each cloud provider and the on-premises datacenter may well have quite different security protocols, making overall security management much more challenging. At Derive, several of our several of our IT security architects are focused on ensuring these issues are properly &ldquo;baked in&rdquo; to all of our implemented solutions.
<h5>Overarching Concerns </h5>
<h5>Q: What are the top concerns datacenter managers confront when implementing a hybrid multi-cloud solution?</h5>
Here&rsquo;s my top five list&hellip;
<ol>
<li>Interoperability &ndash; achieving seamless integration between different cloud platforms and the on-premises datacenter is a major challenge. Despite some substantial progress on several fronts, the lack of standardization between different cloud providers can result in compatibility issues.</li>
<li>Cost Management &ndash; while hybrid multi-cloud environments can be cost-effective, they can also lead to major cost overruns if not managed carefully. Keeping track of different cloud service pricing models, managing resources efficiently, and avoiding unnecessary costs can be quite challenging.</li>
<li>Performance Optimization &ndash; optimizing the performance of applications that run across multiple cloud environments can be tricky and time-consuming. Excessive network latencies and data transfer costs can substantially impact the performance and cost of applications.</li>
<li>Skill Gaps &ndash; implementing a hybrid multi-cloud strategy often requires specialized skills and knowledge, which your current IT team might not possess. Training staff or hiring new talent to manage hybrid multi-cloud environments can be a significant challenge.</li>
<li>Vendor Lock-in &ndash; despite one of the purposes of a multi-cloud strategy being to avoid vendor lock-in, it's still easy to become overly dependent on a particular provider's tools and services, leading to potential issues if you need to transition away.</li>
</ol>
<h5>In Summary</h5>
All the challenges mentioned in this article can be solved with careful planning, regular monitoring, adequate staff training, and specialized software tools designed for managing hybrid multi-cloud environments. It's also important to work closely with cloud service providers and potentially enlist the help of consultants or managed service providers.

Critical Issues for Datacenter Managers – Hybrid Multi-cloud Environments

Discover the advantages and drawbacks of hybrid multi-cloud platforms. Learn how to select the right solution with key criteria for datacenter managers in this comprehensive guide.

Mastering Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platforms: Pros, Cons, and Selection Criteria

Derive's Datacenter Practice Lead, Heman Yung, discusses important aspects of hybrid multi-cloud platforms&mdash;strengths as well as potential challenges.
<h5>Q: What is a hybrid multi-cloud platform?</h5>
A hybrid multi-cloud platform is a combination of on-premises, private, and public cloud environments. It allows organizations to distribute their workloads across multiple cloud services, while also keeping some data and applications in their own datacenters. This way, they can take advantage of the unique features and benefits of different cloud services.
<h5>Q: What are the benefits of adopting a hybrid multi-cloud platform?</h5>
Benefits include:
<ol>
<li>Flexibility and Scalability &ndash; different cloud services can offer unique features and capabilities, allowing businesses to use the best tool for each task. Plus, the scalability of the cloud means businesses can easily expand or reduce their resources as needed.</li>
<li>Cost-Efficiency &ndash; businesses can choose the most cost-effective cloud service for each application or workload, potentially saving money. Some tasks might be cheaper to run on-premises or in a private cloud, while others may be more cost-effective in a public cloud.</li>
<li>Redundancy and Disaster Recovery &ndash; having data and applications distributed across multiple locations can improve redundancy and disaster recovery. If one service goes down, workloads can be quickly moved to another.</li>
<li>Regulatory Compliance &ndash; for companies operating in regulated industries, hybrid multi-cloud allows sensitive data to be kept on-premises or in a private cloud to meet compliance requirements, while other data can be stored in the public cloud.</li>
</ol>
<h5>Q: What are the drawbacks of a hybrid multi-cloud platform?</h5>
Despite its advantages, there are also some potential drawbacks to a hybrid multi-cloud approach:
<ol>
<li>Complexity &ndash; managing and orchestrating across multiple cloud environments can be complex and may require significant technical expertise.</li>
<li>Cost Overruns &ndash; if not managed properly, costs can quickly spiral out of control in a multi-cloud environment.</li>
<li>Data Security &ndash; while distributing data across multiple locations can improve redundancy, it can also increase the surface area for potential attacks.</li>
<li>Interoperability &ndash; ensuring different cloud environments can communicate and work together effectively can be challenging.</li>
</ol>
<h5>Q: What selection criteria might a datacenter manager use when choosing a hybrid multi-cloud platform product?</h5>
A datacenter manager might consider several factors:
<ol>
<li>Interoperability and Integration &ndash; the platform should be able to integrate effectively with the organization's existing systems and should be compatible with various public and private cloud services.</li>
<li>Security and Compliance &ndash; robust security features should be available to help the organization meet any regulatory compliance requirements.</li>
<li>Cost &ndash; the solution should fit within the organization's budget and offer tools to monitor and manage cloud spending.</li>
<li>Management and Orchestration &ndash; proper tools for managing and orchestrating workloads across different cloud environments should be standard.</li>
<li>Support and Training &ndash; good vendor support and training are crucial, particularly for organizations new to hybrid multi-cloud.</li>
<li>Scalability - the platform should be able to scale as the organization grows and needs evolve.</li>
</ol>
In conclusion, hybrid multi-cloud platforms offer a range of benefits, but they also come with challenges. By carefully evaluating the pros and cons and considering key selection criteria, datacenter managers can make informed decisions that will best serve their organizations' needs.

Understanding Pros and Cons of Hybrid Multi-Cloud Platforms 101

Companies need to protect themselves against internal cybersecurity threats using security awareness training and automated access control tools.

Guarding Against Internal IT Security Threats: Prevention Strategies

When companies think about preventing IT security threats, they automatically visualize hackers shrouded in hoodies writing malware code. However, organizations should keep in mind their own employees.&nbsp;
While some insider threats originate from bad intent, as in the case of a disgruntled employee, in many cases, insider threats are caused by employee negligence or lack of security awareness. Often, the offending employee makes a mistake that causes a breach, data loss, or equipment failure.&nbsp;
When developing IT security strategies, organizations must plan how to mitigate internal security risk. Having the right tools and processes in place to prevent inside threats will strengthen a company&rsquo;s overall security posture.&nbsp;
<h2>Security Awareness&nbsp;</h2>
For the most part, employees are not security experts, so they make mistakes. That&rsquo;s why ransomware has been so successful. Employees fail to recognize phishing emails, so they click on attachments, launching malware into the company&rsquo;s systems.&nbsp;
Security awareness training helps employees learn to recognize the hallmarks of phishing emails, such as spelling and grammatical errors, and gives them tips on how to handle suspicious emails safely.&nbsp;
<h2>Access Control&nbsp;</h2>
Lack of identity and access control at your business creates insider risk by allowing employees to access data and applications that are not appropriate for their job level or function. When employees can access information they don&rsquo;t need, it increases the chance of sensitive information getting lost, compromised, or distributed improperly.&nbsp;
Issues with access control also generate insider risk by making it easier for bad actors to access employee accounts. Password protection for employees is one option. Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) can help by getting more sets of eyes on access attempts.&nbsp;
However, using MFA can be a pain for employees who don&rsquo;t want to jump through so many hoops to do their jobs. Hackers can also get around two-factor authentication by counting keystrokes.&nbsp;
All is not lost, however.&nbsp;
<h2>Security Automation&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2>
Security automation software can overcome the limitations of other access control technologies. For example, Check Point offers security software that automates the screening of access attempts and provides email security by sending alerts when phishing attempts are detected.&nbsp;
Check Point&rsquo;s automated screening tools have a high success rate of intercepting unauthorized access attempts. Recently, it was named a Leader in <a href="https://pages.checkpoint.com/forrester-wave-for-enterprise-firewalls-2022.html#:~:text=We%20are%20excited%20to%20announce%20that%20Check%20Point,policy%20creation%20can%20greatly%20simplify%20good%20security%20policy.">The Forrester Wave&trade;: Enterprise Firewalls, Q4 2022</a> and recognized for &ldquo;excelling in overall security performance with superior malware analysis and intrusion prevention systems.&rdquo; Forrester emphasized that &ldquo;Settings for policy creation can greatly simplify good security policy.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Avoiding the Consequences of Insider Threats&nbsp;
If your organization hasn&rsquo;t found effective ways to prevent insider risk, you can&rsquo;t afford to wait. An internal threat could interrupt your business continuity, dealing a devastating blow to your company&rsquo;s operations and reputation.&nbsp;
Derive Technologies can help you plan for preventing insider threats by conducting a free security assessment. During the assessment, one of our &nbsp; security analysts checks for vulnerabilities, such as inadequate access controls. After the assessment, we can provide your company with corrective recommendations, including holding training sessions to improve employee security awareness.&nbsp;
As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, Derive Technologies can provide your company with the leading network security solutions you need to prevent insider threats. We also partner with Check Point, a top provider of security software for the automated detection of unauthorized access attempts. (Derive itself uses Check Point technology solutions.)&nbsp;
By combining industry-leading partners like Check Point with its own technology expertise, Derive Technologies has established a successful security practice that helps our customers prevent both internal and external threats. &nbsp;

How to Prevent Internal IT Security Threats

Emerging AI technology generates cybersecurity risks for companies by enabling hackers to write malware code and convincing phishing emails.

Rising Threats: How Emerging AI Amplifies Cybersecurity Risk

Almost as soon as generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as ChatGPT, came on the scene, the public began to imagine dystopian scenarios. Critics of emerging AI warned of ChatGPT&rsquo;s ability to create deep fakes. The comedian <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sarah-silverman-and-novelists-sue-chatgpt-maker-openai-for-ingesting-their-books/ar-AA1dMzlM">Sarah Silverman</a> sued Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT, for using her memoir to train the bot without her permission.&nbsp;
Even AI creators have implored the U.S. government to create regulations to prevent the technology from being abused. At a recent <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/un-security-council-debates-risks-benefits-of-ai-responsibility-to-future-generations/ar-AA1e2yJa">United Nations Security Council Meeting</a>, the U.N. Secretary General warned that &ldquo;Generative AI has enormous potential for good and evil at scale." The U.N. is concerned that cyberterrorists or enemy nation-states might weaponize AI.&nbsp;
But how can emerging AI technology increase cybersecurity risk for companies?&nbsp;
<h2>Generating Malware&nbsp;</h2>
Recently, bad actors have been quick to leverage AI technology to find vulnerabilities and develop tools, as well as stage malware attacks and breaches of company networks. Cybercriminals who lack coding expertise have turned to chatbots for help in developing malware. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT 4.0, can be used to generate malware code without the need for specialized knowledge or an investment in malware-as-a-service on the Dark Web.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Hackers can give ChatGPT broad malware parameters to use in creating the necessary code to stage a malware attack. Some cybercriminals have used ChatGPT to create a black-market platform for buying and selling malware and other tools to be used for cybercrime.&nbsp;
<h2>Enhancing Phishing Emails&nbsp;</h2>
For a while now, cybercriminals have been using social engineering techniques to draft phishing emails that convincingly imitate co-workers and authority figures. These phishing emails convince employees to click on website links and attachments that are infected with malware or even send gift cards and money to hackers.&nbsp;
Now, generative AI can be used to create convincing phishing emails. Generative AI is trained to imitate writing styles, so it can easily craft an email in the voice of someone who is known to the targeted employee, such as a supervisor or fellow employee.&nbsp;
<h2>Scouting for Vulnerabilities&nbsp;</h2>
AI technology can be used to find security vulnerabilities within a company&rsquo;s systems. All hackers need to do is give ChatGPT prompts for discovering low-hanging fruit to use in staging a breach.&nbsp;
Chatbots can be used to uncover software vulnerabilities, such as unpatched applications and bugs in new software for staging zero-day exploits, which refer to computer-software vulnerabilities previously unknown to those who should be concerned about their mitigation, such as the vendor of the target software. &nbsp;Additionally, cybercriminals can use AI to search for and uncover vulnerabilities in a company&rsquo;s network.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}">&nbsp;
<h2>Keep Up with Emerging AI Threats&nbsp;</h2>
As AI evolves, becoming more advanced and pervasive in our culture, companies like yours may struggle to keep up with the security threats the technology presents. Every company is different, so your business needs to get a picture of your slice of the cyber threat landscape along with a sense of the gaps in your approach to fighting AI risk.&nbsp;
Derive Technologies can help you fight emerging risks by conducting a free security assessment. During the process, our analysts check&nbsp;for vulnerabilities, such as your company&rsquo;s chances of falling victim to a phishing attack.&nbsp;
As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we can provide your company with the leading network security solutions you need to defend against AI-generated threats. We also partner with Gradient Cyber, a leader in threat monitoring, and Check Point, a top security software provider.&nbsp;
With these leading partners, Derive Technologies helps our customers stay ahead of emerging AI threats. &nbsp;

How Emerging AI Creates Cybersecurity Risk

Embrace healthcare innovation with Derive Tech's insights. Discover telemedicine, EHRs, AI, IoMT, VR, AR, smart wearables, cloud computing, and 3D bioprinting.

Transformative Advances in Healthcare Technology: Insights from Derive Technologies

Technology as a whole continues to evolve&nbsp;rapidly and the healthcare arena is certainly no exception. In this blog we look at&nbsp;selected areas of&nbsp;advancements with commentary by&nbsp;Derive&rsquo;s VP of Business Development, Bill Rochford, and what the future may hold.&nbsp;
Telemedicine Platforms
Recent advances in telemedicine have made quality medical care more accessible and affordable than ever before, and mobile health (mHealth) platforms are extending healthcare capabilities and information beyond traditional settings such as hospitals, ERs, and clinics, and into homes, business offices, rural areas, and more. Many people now have the option of consulting with their healthcare providers remotely, enabling immediate intervention and avoiding unnecessary hospital visits.
Bill Rochford says, &ldquo;Telemedicine is here to stay due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. With lessons we learned during the pandemic era, Derive is concentrating on providing holistic technology solutions that significantly improve patient engagement and better health outcomes for healthcare organizations. We achieve this by combining collaboration tools, video conferencing solutions, and secure communication platforms that improve the sense of connection between patients and caregivers. We also provide fundamental planning and implementation support for building out the infrastructure that supports telehealth initiatives, including network and connectivity solutions.&rdquo;
Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
With crude versions of EHRs dating back to the 60s, only recently have EHR systems evolved to incorporate increasingly advanced IT functionalities, becoming indispensable tools for physicians, nursing staff, and a host of other professional roles associated with end-to-end patient care. EHRs are digital versions of patients' medical histories, enabling access to critical medical history and patient care information across different healthcare settings.
Derive Technologies works with leading hospitals and healthcare organizations to implement these complex and critical software systems (and the on-premise and cloud computing infrastructure that supports them) that underpin virtually all of today&rsquo;s medical recordkeeping and patient care tracking.
Recent EHR system enhancements focus on interoperability, facilitating the seamless sharing of data across different EHR systems and diverse user roles within a healthcare organization or hospital. These advancements greatly reduce the challenge of spanning tightly held information silos, enhancing collaboration among medical professionals and improving patient outcomes.
Cloud Computing
EHRs generate an urgent need for secure storage of&mdash;and access to&mdash;vast amounts of patient data. Today&rsquo;s hybrid multi-cloud technologies enable easy access to EHR data, medical imaging, and other crucial patient information, enhancing collaboration among healthcare professionals and improving care outcomes. Moreover, cloud technology plays a key role in supporting other health IT technologies like telemedicine and IoMT by providing scalable, cost-effective data storage solutions. Rochford notes that every healthcare organization is either actively researching or implementing this technology to address the explosion in data storage and retrieval demands. &ldquo;With our years of experience in designing multi-cloud architectures, we make sure our clients&rsquo; storage and performance needs are properly addressed while at the same time adherence to strict compliance requirements like HIPPA is maintained.&rdquo;
Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Rochford notes that over the last five years the advent of point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests has been a game-changer, with the future potential of further reducing healthcare costs and improving patient outcomes. &ldquo;POC diagnostic tests have enabled rapid and accurate disease detection at the patient's bedside, circumventing the need for time-consuming laboratory processes. Among this class of devices, we&rsquo;ve witnessed rapid commercial acceptance of miniaturized PCR devices for rapid infectious disease testing&mdash;along with portable handheld ultrasonic imaging units. They allow for timely diagnosis and immediate initiation of treatment, critical in acute care settings and resource-limited environments.&rdquo;
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) represent a hotbed of application development activity and are already enabling better patient care. Derive Technologies advises healthcare clientele on AI-powered applications that assist in areas such as medical image analysis (e.g., mammograms, CAT and MRI imaging, and ultrasound scanning), predictive analytics and analysis, plus data-driven clinical decision-support tools&mdash;the accuracy and efficacy of which, according to Rochford, continues to improve rapidly.
&ldquo;Specific examples of this technology,&rdquo; Rochford says, &ldquo;include the adoption of AI-based predictive models to forecast patient health risks, improve the speed and accuracy of disease detection, enhance preventive care, and ultimately help lower the longer-term cost-of-care to patients.&rdquo;
AI-driven predictive analytics help healthcare providers anticipate disease outbreaks, identify high-risk patients, and tailor personalized treatment plans. For example, Google's DeepMind AI can predict acute kidney injury in some cases up to 48 hours before it occurs.
In another example, AI-powered chatbots can provide basic healthcare information, answering patients' questions and freeing up medical staff for other tasks.
&ldquo;ML algorithms,&rdquo; says Rochford, &ldquo;are being put to work analyzing incoming data streams from wearable devices, providing real-time insights into individual patient&rsquo;s health statuses, and assisting medical professionals with tailoring customized treatment plans.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Moving forward,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;the challenge will be in better leveraging the powerful ability of AI and ML algorithms to analyze and manipulate huge amounts of medical data, and thereby improve medical diagnoses and treatment regimens, and assist scientists in the fields of genomics and the synthesis of new drugs and vaccines.&rdquo;
Smart Wearable Devices
As mentioned previously&hellip;what are smart wearable devices used for? Most&mdash;attached to a person&rsquo;s arm&mdash;measure familiar health indicators like heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep patterns. But the most recent advancements have taken these devices to a new level of functionality. For example, remote cardiac monitoring devices now allow for continuous, real-time monitoring of heart patients, alerting medical professionals when anomalous events occur. Similarly, smart insulin pens, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, and autonomous insulin pumps have revolutionized diabetes care, enabling better blood sugar control and personalized treatment. Derive Technologies advises healthcare professionals on selecting the most appropriate and cost-effective of these device options for their patients.
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) refers to an interconnected system of medical devices, healthcare IT software, and health systems and services. IoMT devices span wearable fitness trackers, remote patient monitoring tools, and smart implants, all of which can collect, analyze, and transmit health data. The real-time data generated and analyzed through IoMT can assist in preventive care, enable remote diagnoses, and provide personalized healthcare based on individual data.
Derive Technologies, with its 20-year-plus background in healthcare IT, is at the forefront of designing IoMT systems, which encompass a wide range of software and hardware technologies such as data analytics and other software described previously; network architecture design spanning Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and 5G technologies; and physical device rollouts and end-user training.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
&ldquo;Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are beginning to emerge as powerful tools for both patient treatment and medical training,&rdquo; comments Rochford. VR can be used in pain management, mental health therapy, and rehabilitation, offering immersive, controlled environments for therapy. Alternatively, increasingly sophisticated AR applications are allowing medical professionals to visualize, learn, and diagnose complex medical conditions, facilitating better understanding and planning of patient treatment. &ldquo;The next five years will see an explosion in the use of this class of software application, and we will be there every step of the way with our customers to guide them in effectively implementing VR and AR.&rdquo;
3D Bioprinting
Looking further into the future, within 10 years 3D bioprinting is likely to enter the clinical arena, opening up totally novel opportunities in patient point-of-care. This technology has the potential to create patient-specific organs and tissues, offering personalized treatment options and reducing the need for organ donors. While still in the early stages of R&amp;D and clinical application, the ability to create patient-specific 3D printed grafts for wound healing has already shown promising results. &ldquo;When the technology matures,&rdquo; Rochford asserts, &ldquo;Derive will be ready to serve our clients with solutions.&rdquo;

Transformative Advances in Healthcare Technology

Discover ten best practices that businesses can teach their employees to enhance mobile phone security while working remotely, focusing on the cybersecurity solutions provided by Derive Technologies…

Securing Mobile Devices for Remote Work: 10 Cybersecurity Tips for Businesses Prioritizing Protection

In today's digital landscape, remote work has increasingly become the norm for businesses in every industry. As more employees work from home, the security of their mobile devices, particularly phones, has become a critical concern for cybersecurity-conscious organizations.
Protecting data on personal phones is crucial &mdash; not only for the employees' privacy but also for safeguarding the company's sensitive information.<a> So, what are essential security steps employers and employees should take to protect their mobile devices?</a>
In this blog post we&rsquo;ll explore nine best practices that businesses can implement across their organizations and teach their employees to enhance mobile phone security while working remotely, with a specific focus on the cybersecurity IT integrated solutions provided by Derive Technologies.
<h3>#1 Implement Strong Passwords and Biometric Authentication</h3>
One of the biggest and easiest baseline practices is encouraging employees to use strong, unique passwords for their mobile devices. A strong password should include upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Also, having a password with 14 to 16 characters makes it more secure.
Experts agree that length is a critical element of password strength. The<a href="https://bitwarden.com/blog/3-tips-from-nist-to-keep-passwords-secure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)</a> states that enabling biometric authentication, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, adds a useful extra layer of security. Password managers also can go a long way in helping both businesses and individuals manage more complex&ndash;and secure&ndash;passwords.
<h3>#2 Keep Mobile Devices Updated</h3>
<a>How can I secure my mobile device for work?</a> Regularly updating mobile devices with the latest operating system and security patches is essential to reduce vulnerabilities. These patches almost always include up-to-date security fixes that keep your devices, as well as their data, better protected. Reminding employees to enable automatic updates, or prompt them to install updates once released, helps mitigate the risks associated with cyber threats while promoting the security of business data.
<h3>#3 Secure Network Connections</h3>
It&rsquo;s a good idea to advise employees to connect only to secure Wi-Fi networks and avoid using public or unsecured networks when accessing company data. Airports, coffee shops, and other unsecured public-access WiFi zones are among the most vulnerable and easily exploited networks.
When using any work device or accessing work data, make sure your employees are only using secure, private networks in their home or home offices. In the case where an employee must use a public WiFi (perhaps while traveling or working remotely outside of their home), utilizing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is strongly recommended to encrypt internet traffic and ensure data confidentiality.
<h3>#4 Enable Mobile Device Encryption</h3>
Encourage employees to enable encryption on their mobile devices to protect the stored data. Encryption ensures that even if a device is lost or stolen, the stored data remains secure and inaccessible to unauthorized individuals. Most devices make encryption easy and accessible within their hardware settings, making this a worthwhile security precaution.
<h3>#5 Use Trusted Mobile Security Software</h3>
<a>How do you protect your privacy when using your smartphone or other electronic devices?</a> Using reputable mobile security software is a crucial baseline effort to dramatically level-up device security. By installing and regularly updating reliable security solutions, employees can effectively detect and protect against malware, phishing attempts, and other security threats.
<h3>#6 Exercise Caution with App Downloads</h3>
Encourage employees to read app reviews, check permissions, and research the developer before installing any app on their mobile device, whether it be for work or personal use. Malicious apps can compromise data and invade privacy while messing with the mobile operating system software, potentially exploiting all of its data. Educating employees about the importance of downloading apps only from trusted sources &mdash; such as official app stores &mdash; is essential to avoid cybersecurity threats.
<h3>#7 Establish Mobile Phone Usage Policies</h3>
Derive Technologies encourages businesses to create clear and comprehensive mobile phone usage policies that outline security guidelines, acceptable use, data handling, and the reporting of security incidents. Regularly communicating and reinforcing these policies with employees is essential to maintain data safety and encourage strong cyber hygiene practices that they can take outside of work.
<h3>#8 Enable Remote Device Management</h3>
What is a useful security tool for a mobile device? Implementing a <a href="https://www.siliconindia.com/magazine_articles/derive-technologies-enterprise-mobility-made-secure-IGPJ728635770.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mobile device management (MDM)</a> solution that allows remote management of employees' mobile devices &mdash; or any other device connected to an organization's network &mdash; empowers organizations to enforce security policies, remotely wipe data in case of loss or theft, and track devices for better visibility and control. This may not be the most appropriate solution for every business depending on their industry or data sensitivity, but it&rsquo;s certainly a powerful means of maximizing mobile security.
<h3>#9 Implement Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)</h3>
Derive Technologies recommends implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) for accessing all corporate accounts and applications. 2FA adds an extra layer of verification, reducing the risk of unauthorized access even if a password is compromised. This is a practice that offers dramatic impact for minimal effort. Simply adding another authentication layer can deter a vast majority of low-level, or &ldquo;spray and pray,&rdquo; phishing attacks.
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<h3>#10 Educate Employees on Social Engineering Attacks</h3>
Social engineering attacks, such as phishing (email) and vishing (voice and text), are effective attack vectors for cybercriminals. Through comprehensive training, employees can learn how to identify and report phishing, vishing, and other social engineering exploit attempts. Scrutinizing emails, messages, and phone calls that request sensitive information or appear suspicious can help employees stay sharp and defensive. For example, closely examine email address strings that, on first glance, look legitimate but upon closer scrutiny reveal odd domain names or extensions.
<h3>Derive Technologies: Empowering Mobile Cybersecurity for Remote Work</h3>
By implementing most or all of the best practices mentioned above, organizations can empower employees to safeguard their mobile phones, thereby fortifying the security of company data.
Remember, cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and continuous education and awareness are vital to maintaining a secure remote work environment.
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Healthcare providers build a cybersecurity framework by adopting security solutions that help identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

Building a Robust Cybersecurity Framework for Healthcare Providers: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover

As the target of ransomware and other types of cyberattacks, healthcare organizations need to follow a cybersecurity framework that prevents breaches and the resulting loss of patient data. A Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a set of guidelines and written policies for data governance, risk assessment protocols, and procedures that serve to mitigate organizational cybersecurity risks.&nbsp;
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework recommends a cycle of identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover that can be achieved using the right security tools.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s an overview of the parts of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the solutions that can help your healthcare organization align with it.&nbsp;
<h2>Identify&nbsp;</h2>
Identifying assets that must be kept secure and the risks that threaten them is the first step in preventing an attack. If threats can be identified, they can be stopped before the patient information stored in electronic health records (EHRs) is stolen or compromised.&nbsp;
Achieving greater network visibility enables your healthcare organization to identify more risks. Information about the nature of a threat and its root cause can help prevent a similar attack from happening in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h2>Protect&nbsp;</h2>
Data protection is a crucial part of a cybersecurity framework. Your healthcare organization must be capable of protecting patient data, as well as the applications needed to analyze and process information.&nbsp;
A basic 3-2-1 backup rule involves:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="34" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Creating three backup copies of your critical data&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="34" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Storing backups in two different backup locations&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="34" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Using one location that is geographically separated from your production data&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Other tools that help with network and device protection are multi-factor authentication (MFA) for access control, next-generation firewall (NGFW), and network segmentation.&nbsp;
<h2>Detect&nbsp;</h2>
Before your healthcare organization can defend itself against an attack, you must detect threats. Suspicious and anomalous network traffic are usually signs of an impending attack.&nbsp;
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is the next generation of endpoint detection security that works across networks, cloud-hosted apps, and endpoints such as laptops, workstations, and tablets. XDR provides the extended visibility and analysis needed to detect threats.&nbsp;
<h2>Respond&nbsp;</h2>
Once your organization detects a threat, you must be capable of responding. Healthcare providers should have a plan in place for how to keep operations running after an attack.&nbsp;&nbsp;
A response plan involves investigating and containing an attack before it can spread. Carrying out a response prevents the threat from causing damage, such as stealing data or shutting down systems.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Incident response management can analyze an incident and automate a correct response. XDR combines detection and response security for a proactive approach to security.&nbsp;
<h2>Recover&nbsp;</h2>
Recovering from a cybersecurity attack requires the restoration of critical assets, such as network components and patient data.&nbsp;
Backup and disaster recovery will enable your organization to bounce back from a cyberattack. Ideally, backups should be stored off-site in case on-site backup files are deleted or destroyed.&nbsp;
Any backup and disaster recovery plan should be tested regularly and should meet Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) goals.&nbsp;
<h2>Building Your Cybersecurity Framework&nbsp;</h2>
Making your security strategy align with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework can be a big undertaking. Working with a technology partner that has experience with healthcare providers ensures you get the guidance you need to uncover gaps in your framework and find the right solutions to support them.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/healthcare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derive Technologies</a> has been serving many healthcare providers in the Tri-State area for over 20 years through our dedicated healthcare practice. We understand how to help your organization choose and implement the right security tools to realize a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;
As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we have the certified expertise needed to leverage leading network security solutions for your needs.&nbsp;

How Healthcare Organizations Can Create a Cybersecurity Framework

Any business worth their salt has read the cyber landscape of the last few years and shored up their digital defenses to protect against attacks. The practice of cybersecurity protection, however, is soon to transition from a best practice into a requirement after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed a comprehensive set of cybersecurity requirements that could have far-reaching implications for businesses across the financial sector.
These new rules encompass three key areas that we&rsquo;ll go into greater detail below: the Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule, Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (SCI) Amendments, and Regulation S-P Amendments. This blog provides a description of each key area, the potential impact on financial institutions, and potential enforcement risks businesses should be aware of when adopting these new policies.
The frequency and severity of cybersecurity attacks increases by the day. Although the SEC&rsquo;s proposed requirements may seem daunting, they&rsquo;re ultimately in the best interest of every institution. Afterall the cost of implementing and maintaining these changes will be dwarfed by the financial loss, not to mention the reputational damage, that results from a cyberattack.
Read more below to stay up-to-speed and thoughtfully prepare for these regulatory changes to ensure the security and stability of your everyday operations.
<h3>The Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule</h3>
The Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule is the meat and potatoes of the SEC&rsquo;s proposed requirements. It&rsquo;s ultimate goal is to establish a comprehensive cybersecurity framework for Market Entities and Covered Entities, including national securities exchanges and associations, registered and exempt clearing agencies, and SEC-registered entities that exceed certain thresholds such as broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment companies.
The Risk Management Rule includes detailed guidelines designed to establish, maintain, and enforce policies and procedures to proactively address cybersecurity risks. Every year businesses would be required to review and assess policies and procedures, update and incorporate any changes in cybersecurity risks, and prepare a detailed report of their cybersecurity infrastructure.
The recipe for this report is comprised of a long list of detailed ingredients including: 
<ul style="padding: 0 20px;">
<li>Periodic risk assessments</li>
<li>Controls to minimize user-related risks and prevent unauthorized access</li>
<li>Monitoring of information systems, including detailed oversight of any service providers</li>
<li>Measures to detect, mitigate, and remediate threats and vulnerabilities</li>
</ul>
One of the biggest points to note is that businesses would need to create detailed action plans that explain how their business is equipped to detect, respond to, and recover from any cybersecurity incidents, along with detailed documentation for each step.
The goal is to bolster proactive cybersecurity efforts to avoid attacks altogether. In the event, however, that an entity does unfortunately fall victim to an attack, the Risk Management Rule also outlines reactive measures. This includes specific guidelines for notification and reporting that would require written notice to the SEC within 48 hours of an attack that includes information about the incident, the business&rsquo; response, and a plan for recovery.
As far as public disclosures, the Rule would require affected entities to fill our a specific form that covers cybersecurity risks, as well as any significant cybersecurity incidents that have occurred during the current or previous calendar years. Lastly, record-keeping has been more deeply defined and requires that businesses should preserve all records related to cybersecurity compliance.
<h3>Regulation SCI and Regulation S-P Amendments</h3>
In addition to all of the new requirements detailed in the Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule, the SEC has also proposed amendments to two existing regulations in an effort to expand their scope: Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (aka Reg SCI) and Regulation S-P.
Regulation SCI currently focuses on self-regulatory organizations, large alternative trading systems, plan processors, and certain clearing agencies. The proposed amendments intend to extend the rule to include registered broker-dealers that exceed specific asset or activity thresholds, registered security-based swap data repositories, and exempt clearing agencies.
In line with the Risk Management Rule outlined above, the Reg-SCI amendments would introduce new requirements that seek to further bolster cybersecurity defenses, like oversight of third-party providers, expanded business continuity plans, comprehensive disaster recovery plans, detailed measures for preventing unauthorized access, increased frequency of penetration testing, and additional reporting requirements to the Commission.
On the other hand, the SEC&rsquo;s proposed amendments to Regulation S-P (also known as the &ldquo;Safeguards Rule&rdquo;), requires brokers, dealers, investment companies, and investment advisers to adopt written policies and procedures to safeguard customer records and information. They also introduce new requirements such as an incident response program that detects, responds to, and recovers from unauthorized access or use of customer information.
In the event of a data breach involving sensitive customer information, affected entities would be required to notify their affected customers. The scope of information covered by the Safeguards Rule would also be expanded to include all customer information, and the rule would be extended to transfer agents registered with the SEC or another appropriate regulatory agency. Finally, covered institutions would need to maintain written records that document their compliance with the safeguards and disposal rules.
These proposed amendments to existing regulations, as well as the introduction of the Cybersecurity Risk Management Rule, indicate a significant expansion in the SEC's management of cybersecurity and system integrity.
<h3>Impact of the SEC&rsquo;s Proposed Rules</h3>
If these amendments go into effect, they would represent a significant expansion of the SEC&rsquo;s oversight the cybersecurity and system integrity of regulated entities.
Existing regulations tend to focus on specific risks, such as protecting customer information under Regulation S-P or preventing identity theft under Regulation S-ID. They also target specific market, generally larger-scale participants, like the entities covered by Regulation SCI. The new rules, however, which introduces SEC-mandated incident response requirements, aim to dictate more comprehensive cybersecurity programs that cover a wider range of market participants.
The shorter story is that there is a far greater level of detail required than ever before. These amendments introduce numerous new terms and concepts that organizations will need to learn and adopt. They also impose standardized notices and disclosures via new forms that will need to be filed with the commission.
The first thought most c-suite execs will have when reviewing the over 1,200 total pages of new guidance and explanation is that all of these proposals will &ndash; to put it bluntly &ndash; cost more money. The SEC, however, aims to assuage these fears by detailing how cost estimates are likely significantly lower than expected, with only $14,531.54 per Covered Entity in average internal costs and $3,472 per Covered Entity in external costs. Compared to the financial and reputational cost of a cybersecurity attack, that&rsquo;s a great deal!
Overall, covered entities should expect a far greater scrutiny of overall cybersecurity health and practices, and for the the SEC to more frequently enforce cases involving policy and procedure requirements. While these new amendments would require more upfront work and costs for organizations to better bolster their cyber defenses, those efforts will ultimately help prevent far costlier cybersecurity attacks, and costly enforcement cases from the SEC if not in good standing.
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
In short, these proposed cybersecurity rules are a significant expansion of the SEC&rsquo;s regulatory oversight and has the potential to impact a broad range of market participants. As these rules introduce more stringent requirements and standards for managing cybersecurity risks, businesses must stay informed and be prepared to act in order to stay in compliance with the SEC.
By partnering with an experienced cybersecurity provider like Derive, businesses can ensure they are well-equipped to navigate the complex landscape of evolving regulations by implementing robust, tailored security measures that meet the unique needs of their organization.
Don't leave your cybersecurity to chance. Reach out to Derive today to learn more about how our team of experts can help improve your cybersecurity practices and better protect your business from ever-evolving cyber threats.
<h3>SOURCES</h3>
<a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-52" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-52</a>
<a href="https://www.davispolk.com/insights/client-update/sec-proposes-sweeping-new-package-cybersecurity-requirements-regulated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.davispolk.com/insights/client-update/sec-proposes-sweeping-new-package-cybersecurity-requirements-regulated</a>

What the SEC’s New Cybsercurity Requirements Mean For You

Small and medium-sized businesses need data protection solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery, to achieve resiliency after a breach.

Building Resiliency for SMBs: Protecting Against Cyberattacks with Reliable Backup and Recovery Strategies | Derive Technologies

While the goal of IT security is to prevent cyberattacks, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to be prepared to recover quickly if a breach is successful. Rapid recovery lessens the economic and reputational impact of a breach. Resilient companies can recover from a security incident in hours instead of weeks or months.&nbsp;
SMBs are particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks because they can&rsquo;t afford either the ransom or the downtime required to fix the problem themselves. That&rsquo;s why SMBs need to increase their resiliency with a backup and recovery strategy that is reliable and can meet tight recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h2>Why Resiliency Is Crucial for SMBs&nbsp;</h2>
SMBs may make the mistake of assuming that cybercriminals have bigger fish to fry. The truth is that hackers target SMBs with ransomware and other attacks, knowing that smaller companies lack the resources to recover their systems.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Hackers sometimes lowball the ransom, figuring that a smaller business will pay up instead of spending the time and money needed to fix the problem themselves.&nbsp;
A single attack involving a data breach, malware, ransomware, or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can cost businesses with 50 to 249 employees an average of $184,000. Many of these targeted organizations go out of business within six months.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Resiliency solutions enable SMBs to recover from an attack by ensuring that data is backed up and stored in a location where it cannot be encrypted or compromised by malware.&nbsp;
<h2>What Is Resiliency?&nbsp;</h2>
Data protection solutions promote resiliency by ensuring business continuity after an attack. Business continuity and availability are important for SMBs because they are markers of reliability and trustworthiness. Customers want to know that your small business is available to them whenever and wherever they need you.&nbsp;
Data protection promotes resiliency using backup and recovery solutions. As the term resiliency suggests, data protection allows your company to bounce back after a traumatic incident by recovering lost data and restoring compromised data to its original state.&nbsp;
<h2>Backup and Disaster Recovery for SMBs&nbsp;</h2>
Recovering from a cybersecurity attack requires that your company restore critical assets, such as mission-critical data. Not only should your SMB have a reliable backup in place, but you must have a comprehensive and tested disaster recovery plan.&nbsp;
Smaller companies can start by creating a backup and recovery plan according to the basic 3-2-1 backup rule. The 3-2-1 rule involves:&nbsp;&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="43" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Creating three backups of your critical data, one primary and two copies&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="43" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Having two different backup locations&mdash;disk, tape, cloud, etc.&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="43" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Using one location that is geographically separated from your production data&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery help you follow the 3-2-1 rule and meet RTO and RPO targets. With cloud backup and recovery and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), SMBs can achieve instant failover and synchronize backups to restore data to its current state.&nbsp;
<h2>Achieving Resiliency at Your SMB&nbsp;</h2>
Taking a proactive approach to cybersecurity is ideal, but not every attack can be prevented. When a cyberattack does occur, having data protection solutions in place to support resiliency will keep your company up and running.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solution/managed-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derive Technologies</a> can help your SMB become more resilient. We provide backup and recovery as part of our managed services and offer periodic testing for restoration services to ensure that your company can stay available no matter what.&nbsp;
As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we also have the certified expertise needed to support your data protection and resiliency solutions.&nbsp;

How to Improve Your SMB’s Resiliency

Healthcare providers should promote cybersecurity by training employees in security awareness, including how to recognize phishing emails.

Enhancing Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Promoting Security Awareness and Phishing Email Recognition Training for Healthcare Providers

Because healthcare organizations are often targeted by ransomware attacks through phishing emails, promoting security awareness is crucial. Hackers send emails to hospitals and medical centers that seem to come from co-workers or authority figures. Employees are then encouraged to click on a link that is infected with ransomware or another type of malware. In the case of ransomware, this link encrypts medical data and files, shutting down the entire system.&nbsp;
To prevent these email attacks from succeeding, healthcare providers need to raise the security awareness of staff members. Security awareness should be made part of the culture of the healthcare organization through continuous training and reinforcement.&nbsp;
<h2>Security Awareness Training&nbsp;</h2>
On the most basic level, healthcare providers should enforce regular cybersecurity training and continual education programs across the organization. Both stakeholders and staff benefit from learning how to recognize and handle suspicious emails to prevent ransomware attacks.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Interactive security awareness training is most effective. Participating in hands-on exercises using real-world scenarios makes the training stick. Employees should be taught to identify the signs of a suspicious email, to avoid clicking on links, and whom to notify when they spot a phishing attempt.&nbsp;
Ongoing training helps to reinforce core lessons. Courses can be adapted to incorporate new and emerging threats and their attack vectors.&nbsp;
<h2>Security Awareness Testing&nbsp;</h2>
Employees should be tested regularly to see if the training is taking effect. Often, security awareness testing takes the form of putting an employee in a risky scenario without their knowledge.&nbsp;
For example, an employee who has difficulty recognizing phishing emails might be sent a fake email with some of the characteristics of a phishing email, such as spelling and grammatical errors, an unfamiliar address, or a request for money. If the employee responds appropriately, you know the training is working. If not, the employee might need supplemental training.&nbsp;
<h2>Getting the Big Picture&nbsp;</h2>
Employees should understand the importance of securing medical data and the consequences of a breach. Pointing out that medical data and personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot commodity on the Dark Web drives home the importance of protecting patient data. Employees should know that medical histories can be sold for top dollar or used to commit healthcare fraud.&nbsp;
Another repercussion of a data breach is the possibility that data will be compromised or lost. Without the information in electronic health records (EHRs), patients can&rsquo;t receive timely care and may not receive the correct diagnosis or treatment plan.&nbsp;
Healthcare staffers are dedicated to protecting patients&rsquo; interests and follow the ethic of doing no harm. Putting the impact of a breach in this context reinforces the importance of security awareness and thinking before you act.&nbsp;
<h2>Developing a Culture of Security Awareness&nbsp;</h2>
Overall awareness is a key part of security hygiene. Just as healthcare staffers know how to wash up, gown up, and wear masks to prevent the spread of germs, they need to know how to prevent the spread of malware and computer viruses.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/healthcare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derive Technologies</a> can help your healthcare organization raise your level of security awareness. We have been working with healthcare providers in the Tri-State area for more than 20 years through our dedicated healthcare practice.&nbsp;&nbsp;
We understand the threats your healthcare organization faces and can work with you to promote security awareness. As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we also have the certified expertise needed to back up your awareness with top network security solutions for healthcare.

How to Improve Your Healthcare Organization’s Security Awareness

Healthcare providers must understand the top cybersecurity risks that threaten them, such as ransomware attacks, plus remediation techniques.

Protecting Healthcare IT: Cyberthreats, EHR Security, Dark Web, Ransomware, and Data Breach Prevention with Cisco

Today, no type of business or organization is exempt from cybersecurity risk. Healthcare providers find themselves targeted by advanced threats because the information in electronic health records (EHRs) is valuable. Hackers can sell patient information on the Dark Web or use it to commit insurance fraud.&nbsp;
Attacks on hospitals and medical centers put patients&rsquo; lives at risk by interrupting their care and delaying emergency responses. A data breach can cause medical histories to be stolen, lost, or altered, making reaching the correct diagnosis or treatment plan difficult.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s a look at three cybersecurity threats healthcare organizations should be concerned about&nbsp;
<h2>1) Ransomware&nbsp;</h2>
Healthcare providers are often targeted by ransomware attacks. Cybercriminals know that hospitals and medical centers can&rsquo;t afford to take the time needed to recover files after they have been encrypted by a bad actor. In an emergency, time is of the essence when delivering patient care.&nbsp;
Ransomware attacks frequently result from:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Unprotected email platforms&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Outdated antivirus software&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Lack of security awareness among staff&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Many times, a ransomware attack is triggered by a staff member unwittingly clicking on an infected attachment in an email. Once triggered, the ransomware encrypts all files; the more sophisticated ones can delete on-site backups. The hacker then sends a message demanding a ransom in return for a decryption key.&nbsp;
Hackers will often hold data hostage two to three times before relinquishing control. The first time, the data is held hostage for a traditional ransom payment. Next, the hackers demand additional funds for not disclosing a successful network penetration or data breach to the public and media channels. Finally, the cybercriminals offer to share their exact penetration techniques in exchange for yet another payment.&nbsp;
<h2>2) Phishing Emails&nbsp;</h2>
Most healthcare providers lack policies and expertise around email security. The staff at a hospital or medical center may not have received sufficient training to recognize phishing emails. After all, medical staff members are experts in delivering patient care, not cybersecurity.&nbsp;
While web and endpoint security may be considered more urgent concerns, social phishing has become an increasingly popular attack vector for cybercriminals. In social phishing attacks, hackers use social media to impersonate co-workers or authority figures, gain an employee&rsquo;s trust, and convince them to click on suspicious links, reveal sensitive information, or even send money.&nbsp;
<h2>3) Data Breaches&nbsp;</h2>
Usually, the motivation for data breaches is financial. Stolen medical data can be held for ransom or sold for a massive profit on the black market. The more in-depth and comprehensive the information, the more valuable it becomes.&nbsp;
Data breaches most often result from weak frontline defenses, such as inadequate web security or outdated anti-malware software. Breaches can be staged through endpoints, such as medical devices, tablets, or patient portals. Since these assets are located at the edge of the network, traditional firewalls may be inadequate for protecting healthcare organizations.&nbsp;
<h2>How to Defend Your Healthcare Organization Against Threats&nbsp;</h2>
Once your healthcare organization knows what threats are out there, what should you do?&nbsp;
Partnering with a technology company that is experienced in working with healthcare providers will help you put together a security strategy that makes sense for your threat landscape.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/healthcare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derive Technologies</a> has been serving healthcare organizations in the Tri-State area for more than 20 years through our dedicated healthcare practice. We understand how to help your hospital or medical center prevent targeted cyberthreats. As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we help our customers in the healthcare industry leverage leading network security solutions to protect patient information.&nbsp;

Top 3 Cyberthreats Faced by Healthcare Providers

SMBs can increase their IT security through risk assessments, network segmentation, MFA, next-generation firewall, and extended detection and response.

Enhance IT Security for SMBs: Risk Assessments, Network Segmentation, MFA, Next-Gen Firewall, & EDR

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often lack the resources needed to adopt a strong security posture. Given the unrelenting escalation of cyberattacks, SMBs can&rsquo;t afford to skimp on security. With attacks potentially costing companies hundreds of thousands of dollars, smaller organizations can be driven out of business.&nbsp;
Because many SMBs use hybrid workplaces in which employees split time between the office and remote work, cybersecurity is crucial. The remote devices employees use can serve as entry points for hackers.&nbsp;
SMBs need to make smart investments in hardware and software to prevent and minimize the impact of ransomware and other types of attacks. By investing in a few key areas of IT security, SMBs can strengthen their security posture significantly.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s an overview of five ways SMBs can improve their overall approach to cybersecurity.&nbsp;
<h2>1) Security Risk Assessment&nbsp;</h2>
A great place to get started with improving your SMB&rsquo;s cybersecurity is with a security risk assessment. Many cyber insurance companies require an external vulnerability scan before providing cyber liability coverage. A security risk assessment can uncover vulnerabilities and gaps in your security strategy.&nbsp;
Once these risks have been uncovered, you can determine which hardware or software tools or processes are needed to fill any gaps. Undergoing a security risk assessment enables your company to take a targeted and efficient approach to bolstering your security.&nbsp;
<h2>2) Network Segmentation&nbsp;</h2>
Network security is key because cybercriminals can use the network to move laterally across your system, from device to device and into the data center and the cloud, once they have found an entry point.&nbsp;
Network segmentation enables your SMB to reduce its attack surface by dividing the larger network architecture into smaller, discrete networks which isolate traffic and allow your company to set specific security and access controls for each segment.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The two major types of network segmentation are:&nbsp;
<ul>
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</ul>
<ul>
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</ul>
<h2>3) Next-Generation Firewall&nbsp;</h2>
Today&rsquo;s business environments, with their geographically dispersed offices and hybrid workplaces, put a strain on traditional firewalls. A next-generation firewall (NGFW) has network filtering functions that aren&rsquo;t available in traditional firewalls.&nbsp;&nbsp;
These functionalities include:&nbsp;
<ul>
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</ul>
With NGFW, application firewalls leverage intrusion prevention systems (IPS) or deep packet inspections (DPI).&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h2>4) Extended Detection and Response&nbsp;</h2>
As today&rsquo;s companies increasingly rely on endpoint devices, such as laptops and tablets to do business, endpoint protection has become crucial for preventing cyberattacks. Extended detection and response (XDR) is at the cutting edge of endpoint security.&nbsp;&nbsp;
XDR works across networks, cloud-hosted applications, and endpoints to optimize network visibility, deepen threat analysis, and enhance response capabilities. XDR provides analytic insights into managed endpoint devices and exerts more control over how endpoints function and what they can access.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<h2>5) Multifactor Authentication&nbsp;</h2>
Identity and access control is necessary for preventing bad actors, whether internal or external, from gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information. Passwords, or single-factor authentication methods, are easy for hackers to crack.&nbsp;
Multifactor authentication (MFA) requires that users present two or more credentials, such as a token, biometric fingerprint scan, or single-use code, to access a website or application. MFA is easy to implement and enforce across an organization. Access can be controlled based on job level so employees can use only the data they need to do their work.&nbsp;
<h2>Find and Bridge Your Security Gaps&nbsp;</h2>
Don&rsquo;t wait for a cyberattack to cripple your business before you invest in IT security. Get started by partnering with a technology company that has expertise in cybersecurity for a risk assessment.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derive Technologies</a> provides free network security assessments. We can evaluate every aspect of your security posture, find gaps, and recommend the best ways to bridge them.&nbsp;
Derive can help you prevent ransomware and other malware attacks and provide ways to recover quickly from attacks that do succeed so you can reduce downtime and data loss to an absolute minimum. As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, we help our customers leverage leading network security solutions.&nbsp;

5 Ways to Strengthen Your SMB’s Security Posture 

Enhance patient care with healthcare tablets. Improve security, streamline workflows, and capture data seamlessly. Discover the benefits of integrating tablets into your EHR system for better data management.

3 Ways a Healthcare Tablet Can Improve Patient Care | Derive Technologies

From admission to discharge, <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare</a> professionals rely on accurate data to deliver quality care. Positive patient identification, medication tracking, and staff communication are just a few of the crucial workflows hinging on dependable data visibility. Therefore, it is no surprise that nine-in-ten clinicians report using a clinical mobility device to expand data accessibility within a HIPAA-compliant interface. Unlike consumer-grade devices, healthcare technologies often sport:
<ul>
<li>Disinfectant-ready exterior for quick wipe downs</li>
<li>Integrated, eye-friendly scanners</li>
<li>Higher IP and durability ratings</li>
<li>Flexible connectivity options to minimize dropped signals</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">Healthcare</a> tablets go a step further by expanding visibility and ease-of-use on an intuitive device. As facilities continue to optimize staff mobility, rugged tablets like <a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_dam/en/spec-sheets/et40-hc-et45-hc-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zebra&rsquo;s ET4X-HC</a> are expected to play a vital role in improving patient care by:
<ol>
<li>Protecting accuracy during bedside care &ndash; A lot happens during bedside care. Unlike manual systems, healthcare tablets streamline data capture and reporting on a larger screen for easy readability. A healthcare-ready tablet with an integrated scanner can:
<ul>
<li>Match the correct medication to the patient after scanning their wristband</li>
<li>Instantly access electronic records to add treatment updates</li>
<li>Place orders for new tests on the spot</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Enabling real-time telehealth &ndash; After the 2020 pandemic, it is estimated <a href="https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/telehealth-statistics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50%</a> of American clinics offer some sort of <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/blog/what-are-the-components-of-an-efficient-telehealth-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telehealth</a> Although desktop systems can deliver sustainable connections, healthcare tablets bring mobility into the mix, allowing clinicians to provide care from anywhere in the facility thanks to:
<ul>
<li>Compatible connectivity with WiFi, Bluetooth, and LTE cellular networks</li>
<li>Android&rsquo;s open ecosystem to house a variety of custom apps</li>
<li>High-resolution cameras for videoconferencing</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Empowering safe staff communication &ndash; Studies conducted by the Joint Commission show that <a href="https://www.hipaajournal.com/effects-of-poor-communication-in-healthcare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eight-in-ten</a> serious medical errors are attributed to poor staff communication. To close the communication gap, <a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_dam/en/spec-sheets/et40-hc-et45-hc-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zebra&rsquo;s healthcare tablets</a> leverage:
<ul>
<li>A configurable emergency alert button</li>
<li>HIPAA-compliant text messaging</li>
<li>Government-grade data security to warn off cyberattacks</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
This list is by no means exhaustive. As healthcare challenges continue to evolve over time, it is only natural that technology will mature alongside them to overcome future obstacles. <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">For more information</a> on how you can implement healthcare tablets in your facility, contact us <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

3 Ways a Healthcare Tablet Can Improve Patient Care

As businesses big and small across the <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare industry</a> become increasingly reliant on technology to optimize and deliver patient care, effective managed cybersecurity services (outsourced management of security procedures and systems) have never been more important. Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations are regularly targeted by cybercriminals attempting to steal sensitive patient data or disrupt critical operations.&nbsp;
To better defend themselves, healthcare organizations are turning to companies like <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive Technologies to create cybersecurity strategies that can keep critical patient data safe and safeguard IT operations</a>.
An area in which companies like Derive can make significant contributions is in implementing healthcare cybersecurity solutions that leverage the unique power of language learning models and generative AI. This blog introduces these brand-new, groundbreaking technologies that already are being utilized to improve managed cybersecurity services and protect patient data.
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<h2>What Does Language Learning Models and Generative AI Mean?</h2>
Before we dive into specific applications of language learning models and generative AI&ndash;both of which are just hitting mainstream conversations&ndash;it&rsquo;s important to understand what they are and exactly what they do.
Language learning models refer to machine learning algorithms designed to understand and analyze human language. These models are trained on vast datasets of both written and spoken language, allowing them to recognize patterns, identify key themes, and generate human-like responses.
Generative AI, on the other hand, refers to AI systems that can create new content or data by synthesizing existing information. Although today&rsquo;s headlines stay largely focussed on search engine capabilities, this technology is already breaking ground in healthcare cybersecurity as well, where it&rsquo;s being used to simulate attacks, identify vulnerabilities, and much more.
<h3>How Can Language Learning Models Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity?</h3>
One of the most significant challenges facing healthcare cybersecurity is the sheer volume of data that must be analyzed to identify potential threats. IT companies like <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive Technologies are employing solutions</a> that use language learning models to process and analyze massive amounts of text-based data, including emails and social media posts to other forms of digital communication.
By analyzing these data troves, language learning models are able to recognize patterns and anomalies that may indicate a looming cyber attack.&nbsp;
A model trained on the language used in phishing emails, for example, could help identify similar emails that might be attempting to steal sensitive patient data.
Language learning models can also simulate a phishing attack, allowing security teams to identify chinks in the armor of their email security protocols (which remains the biggest and most regularly exploited threat vector). By identifying and addressing these vulnerabilities, healthcare organizations can help ensure that any attempts at cybercrime are unsuccessful.
Another way that language learning models improve healthcare cybersecurity is by providing more effective threat intelligence. Thanks to their ability to analyze vast amounts of online data, language learning models can identify emerging threats such as new malware or phishing techniques, which in turn directly informs an organization&rsquo;s security protocols and defenses.
<h3>How Can Generative AI Improve Healthcare Cybersecurity?</h3>
In addition to language learning models, IT companies like <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive are also implementing solutions</a> that use generative AI to improve healthcare cybersecurity.&nbsp;
Generative AI can detect irregularities in network traffic and learn to identify suspicious patterns in an organization&rsquo;s internal network(s) based on the synthesis of massive datasets.
A generative AI system trained to recognize normal patterns of data flow in a hospital network, for example, will instantly detect when a new and abnormal pattern emerges. This is often an early red flag that a cybercriminal has gained access to the network, with a likely intent to steal patient data or disrupt critical healthcare services.
<h3>Can Generative AI Help Protect Healthcare Organizations from Ransomware Attacks?</h3>
By detecting and responding to attacks in real-time, generative AI is already being leveraged by companies like Derive to help protect healthcare organizations against ransomware. Ransomware attacks involve cybercriminals encrypting a healthcare organization's data and demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key.
Generative AI trained on historical data from past ransomware attacks is able to quickly analyze the code used by the attackers, the methods they use to distribute the ransomware, and the types of files and data that are targeted to identify patterns and characteristics of ransomware attacks.
With a wealth of data knowledge, generative AI can genuinely detect and respond to ransomware attacks in real-time. For example, if a generative AI system detects a suspicious file or piece of code entering the network, it can isolate and quarantine the file before it has a chance to spread and encrypt data across the network.
Lastly, generative AI is able to quickly generate fresh security protocols and updates in response to new ransomware attacks. These are just a few of the exciting ways this technological leap is already helping healthcare organizations stay one step ahead of cybercriminals.
Conclusion As<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare"> healthcare organizations</a> continue to adopt new technologies and face emerging threats, the need for effective cybersecurity services has never been greater. IT companies like Derive Technologies are playing an increasingly critical role in protecting patient data and securing critical healthcare systems. By leveraging language learning models and generative AI, Derive is able to provide stronger, more future-proofed managed <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">cybersecurity services</a> for healthcare clients in the greater NYC area.

Learning Models and Generative AI in Managed Cybersecurity Services

Ensure every member of your team is informed on the latest industry-standard security policy models and has adapted their workflows to accommodate cybersecurity needs.

Baseline Security Practices for the Modern SMB

Healthcare cybersecurity has never been more crucial. Learn the basic steps you should be taking to strengthen your healthcare cybersecurity and IT support services.

5 Reasons Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Crucial

<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">Healthcare cybersecurity</a> has never been more important. With cybersecurity attacks rising in frequency and severity in recent years, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine, it&rsquo;s never been more crucial for the most sensitive and susceptible businesses and organizations to protect themselves.
And there is no organization more sensitive &ndash; or routinely targeted &ndash; than healthcare organizations.
Healthcare staff work long hours during busy days and don&rsquo;t have the time or resources to understand the risks they face by not being proactive about healthcare cybersecurity. They&rsquo;re far too busy saving lives to worry about, much less be aware of, how current their network&rsquo;s firewall is, for example.
The reality, however, is that patient data is extremely valuable on the dark web, and the outdated hardware and software that many healthcare organizations have fostered long-term dependencies leave them vulnerable to exploitation. As more healthcare leaders realize this, the more they&rsquo;re investing their time and allocating their budget to shore up their defenses.
Read more to learn 5 ways that healthcare cybersecurity is becoming more important every single day.
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<h2>1) Healthcare Organizations Don&rsquo;t Have Time or Resources to Introduce New Hardware or Software</h2>
Healthcare workers are among the busiest and most in-demand anywhere in the world, and their all-consuming care is more pressing than staying up-to-date with healthcare cybersecurity best practices. More than anything, they need reliable, intuitive tech that allows them to treat patients as efficiently as possible.
Fortunately bolstering your cyber defenses does not have to be a disruptive, all-hands-on-deck overhaul. Healthcare leaders should start by assessing the impact of any cybersecurity measures they want to implement and align those measures with existing software and hardware as much as reasonably possible. There is a bevy of solutions that work with healthcare organizations&rsquo; most common platforms, like Office 365, so that you can better secure your information without costing your staff more precious time.
Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions, for example, can authorize users to access multiple applications with one set of credentials, allowing you to increase your cybersecurity without creating more work for your team.
Even before the covid-19 pandemic, healthcare staff needed the ability to access data remotely. Now the reliance on remote access is greater than ever, and that continual, off-site access presents new opportunities for bad actors to exploit. Connecting to unsecured networks from a home office or public space can put your entire organization at risk.
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Solutions like increased endpoint security and multi-factor authentication</a> can go a long way in proactively protecting you from these inevitable vulnerabilities without slowing down your staff or limiting their access.
<h2>2) Confidential Patient Data Is Highly Valuable</h2>
In the seedy underbelly of the internet, your patient data can fetch a pretty penny. Hackers know this, and that&rsquo;s why <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare organizations</a> are so frequently targeted.
Ransomware attacks, the most common form of a cybersecurity attack, either threaten to publish an organization&rsquo;s data or perpetually blocks access to it unless a ransom is paid.
Hackers will often hold this data hostage 2-3 consecutive times before relinquishing control: once as a traditional ransom, again to prevent information from being released to the public, and then one last time so that victims can find out how they were hacked in the first place. These attacks can be caused by unprotected email, weak security, outdated antivirus software, uneducated staff members, lack of security policies, or any number of other common reasons.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities store an incredible amount of confidential data that they are legally required to protect with baseline cybersecurity measures. If those securities aren&rsquo;t in place, healthcare organizations could face tremendous financial losses for not cooperating with the HIPAA Privacy Law that protects patients from hospital negligence . . . in addition to the financial loss incurred from having to buy the stolen data back from their attackers.
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<h2>3) Medical Devices Are Easy Targets . . . And Often Outdated</h2>
Healthcare technology has advanced in inspiring ways in recent years, but for all of their dramatic leaps forward in actual healthcare provision, they often create side doors or back doors for hackers to access your network.
These devices, like a heart rate monitor, for example, aren&rsquo;t designed with online security in mind, and even though they don&rsquo;t contain patient data themselves, they can be used as leverage to launch a larger attack on a server that does contain sensitive data.
Every healthcare organization has budgetary constraints, and medical devices are often going to be the priority. That means other medical technologies, like computers and software platforms, become increasingly outdated and fail to keep up with contemporary attacks.
Technologies eventually reach their end-of-lifecycle where their vendors are no longer routinely providing updates, which often contain bug fixes to keep systems secure. It's possible to minimize the risk of cyberattacks by adding extra layers of security protection and slightly extending their lifecycle, but eventually, you&rsquo;ll need to migrate to a more modern platform to ensure your healthcare organization is safe.
At the end of the day, it&rsquo;s the healthcare organization that is ultimately responsible for protecting patient data at all times. That means staying current with today&rsquo;s threats . . . as well as today&rsquo;s defenses.
<h2>&nbsp;4) Healthcare Data Needs to Be Accessible and Shareable</h2>
Extremely confidential patient data needs to be accessible both remotely and on-site from multiple devices at any given time. What allows healthcare staff to access critical data as quickly as possible also creates opportunities for security vulnerabilities that hackers are happy to take advantage of.
Endpoints are a particular weak spot in this department. In other words, even if the platforms or applications being accessed are secured, often the devices &ndash; phones, personal computers, etc. &ndash; being used to access are not.
Modern healthcare organizations handle large quantities of patient data and an extensive network of connected medical devices. Larger organizations typically manage thousands of medical devices connected to their networks, each one posing a potential security risk and opportunity for bad actors.
Any solution that can save both time and money by automatically regulating user permissions without putting sensitive patient data at risk is a must-have for healthcare cybersecurity. MFA solutions prevent attacks from compromised credentials or unauthorized users, ensuring only the right people can access private information.
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<h2>5) Healthcare Staff Aren&rsquo;t Educated on Healthcare Cybersecurity Risks</h2>
They&rsquo;re medical professionals, after all, not IT professionals, and healthcare cybersecurity solutions can be extremely complex. The reality is they are far too busy to educate themselves on the latest threats and best practices, meaning the responsibility falls on IT specialists to ensure that healthcare staff is protected from both attackers and their own actions.
Healthcare professionals need to be able to manage their own devices to an extent &ndash; freeing up IT specialists to deal with broader IT and security issues within the network. Some MFA solutions offer a self-service portal, which allows users to reset security PINs and more by themselves, helping to lighten the workload on the support desk
Hospital staff needs secure devices and networks that are quick and easy to access, plain and simple. Additional measures like MFA and SSO are becoming more common thanks to their ability to fortify online defenses without impeding the end users.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
While all <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare organizations</a> are at risk of cyberattack, smaller enterprises with smaller security budgets are often targeted for their reputation of having less sophisticated and up-to-date healthcare cybersecurity measures in place.
No matter your size, effective cybersecurity is an absolute must for healthcare organizations as they&rsquo;re all responsible for sensitive patient data. Healthcare leaders are becoming more aware of the need to increase spending on cybersecurity &ndash; and there are plenty of solutions out there that are scalable to different business sizes.
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<h2>Reach out to <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive Technologies to learn more about how we can protect you</a> from the threats of today and tomorrow <a href="#section">BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION</a>&nbsp;</h2>
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Cybersecurity attacks, are more common than ever. Here are 3 crucial ways you can ensure your enterprise cybersecurity protocols are up-to-date.

Derive Tech's 3 Most Critical Cybersecurity Services for Enterprise Businesses

Now more than ever businesses big and small are racing to fortify their cybersecurity defenses to protect themselves against online threats. Russian cyberattacks have recently grown more frequent and pervasive, but the reality is that cyber defense is urgent and necessary every single day . . . not just when it&rsquo;s topical or once an attack has already taken place.
Much like owning a car, preventative efforts are critical to maintaining the privacy and safety of you and your sensitive data. Reactive measures &ndash; in other words, doing damage control after your business has been the victim of a cyberattack &ndash; can be incredibly expensive, and in the case of some major enterprise companies, the long-term damage to public relations is immeasurable.
Detecting cybersecurity threats is only half the battle. The other half is remediation, or understanding how to thoughtfully address the threat and safely remove it in a timely manner or with minimal damage.
In recent years, there&rsquo;s been a major shift in the cybersecurity insurance market, which now requires that any business procuring cyber liability coverage perform a minimal amount of internal due diligence. Insurance providers often need to see proof of 3 major proactive measures to even consider a business eligible for coverage:
1) Two-Factor Authentication (aka 2FA or TFA) on at least admin accounts, but increasingly it&rsquo;s required for all company logins
2) Extended Detection Response (aka XDR) which allows remote endpoint access and control to optimize security
3) External Vulnerability Scan that shows the company has a clean bill of health and isn&rsquo;t a &ldquo;sitting duck&rdquo; for hackers
What are these proactive measures that insurance providers are now enforcing designed to protect you against? Some of the biggest threats facing organizations in every industry include:
1) Email, which is the largest threat vector and attack surface for businesses of any and all sizes. No channel is more vulnerable or routinely targeted.
2) End Point (Device) Security, which is what XDR seeks to address by offering increased security control and access management
3) Vulnerability Scanning, or both attackers&rsquo; and insurers&rsquo; ability to audit all of your online assets to determine where the chinks in your company&rsquo;s armor may be
In the article below, we&rsquo;ll further outline for you not only some of the biggest cybersecurity threats facing enterprise businesses, we&rsquo;ll also provide a high-level overview of the current cybersecurity landscape from the perspective of both insurance providers and organizations alike.&nbsp;
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<h2>THREAT #1: EMAIL</h2>
Email is the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability facing any business due to how many different ways this channel can be targeted. From phishing, spoofing, and credential-stealing to people pretending to be you or a co-worker, hackers have developed a myriad of attack strategies that continue to cost businesses time, money, and reputational value.
Also known as a Business Email Compromise, or BEC, these attacks are widespread and have the potential to be financially devastating. So, what can you do to better protect yourself and your business?
Enterprise-level email security products and Two-Factor Authentication (aka 2FA or TFA) augmented on all login points are two highly-recommended baseline solutions that will defend against a vast majority of basic email attacks.&nbsp;
Just by taking those two steps, you&rsquo;ll no longer be&nbsp; &ldquo;low-hanging fruit&rdquo; to attackers; these two proactive measures protect against &ldquo;spray and pray&rdquo; attacks because they require sophisticated hacking skills to successfully bypass.
Higher profile organizations are naturally bigger targets to attackers, so it&rsquo;s important to carefully model your vectors of attack by outlining the threats the organization is likely to face. Generally speaking, the more valuable your organization, the bigger the proverbial target on your back is, and the more you&rsquo;ll need strong, enterprise-level protection.
There are tiers of security awareness, and even basic measures like web security, email security, and 2FA will go a long way in deterring and protecting against the most common attacks businesses face.
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<h2>THREAT #2: END POINT (DEVICE) SECURITY</h2>
While email security defends against external attacks, the second biggest cybersecurity threat to businesses is inside their network.&nbsp;
End Point (or Device) Security has never been more critical (or threatened) in a work-from-home world, which is why XDR (or Extended Detection Response) capabilities are an absolute necessity for all businesses.&nbsp;
XDR not only provides valuable insight into your managed endpoints, it also enables much deeper control over what the endpoint is able to do or access. This means more personalized defenses based on your threat vector models, and a greater ability to remotely remediate any issues that occur.
XDR is a required defense for nearly every major insurance provider. When your business is protected with XDR, they have the confidence that you&rsquo;re able to proactively monitor and manage the endpoint, detect any threats or attacks in real time, and remediate the problem once it's identified. In other words, it&rsquo;s full before-during-after attack protection.
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solution/security">Derive takes a multi-layered approach</a> to XDR by deploying an array of different technologies to make endpoints fully defendable. One such technology is an endpoint security agent, which can offer customizable tools that allow you to uniquely manage your devices. Web security filtering is another example, a separate tool that enables greater control over what goes in and out of an endpoint.&nbsp;
Other tools can protect against bad emails or leverage MFA to control who can access an endpoint, allowing you to authenticate whoever is sitting behind that computing device.
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<h2>THREAT #3: VULNERABILITY SCANNING</h2>
The third major cybersecurity issue worth outlining is less a specific threat and more of a generalized vulnerability assessment, a modern requirement by insurance providers that seek to ensure baseline cyber defenses are in place in order for businesses to be eligible for coverage.&nbsp;
What does this mean? It means insurance providers are leveraging vulnerability scanning services to assess all of an organization&rsquo;s publicly available assets and audit them for cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Obviously, a business isn&rsquo;t expected to have bulletproof protection against every variety of cyberattacks, but you should be able to (and providers require) that you&rsquo;re protected against the most common and known attacks.
Vulnerability scans are usually automated and rely on a database of vulnerabilities that is cross-checked against a business&rsquo; existing cybersecurity environment. If anything matches, it&rsquo;s likely you may not be eligible for insurance protection.
External penetration tests take this a step further by performing a scan and then exploiting the vulnerabilities within your assets. Beyond that, competent cyber teams will look beyond all well-known attacks to explore new vulnerabilities by performing internal penetration tests.&nbsp;
Internal tests can involve a &ldquo;black box&rdquo; approach where a hired company is treated as an adversary and given a basic network connection to try and further penetrate defenses, or they may be given specific assets to research and attempt to exploit.&nbsp;
Keep in mind: your adversaries have the same ability to conduct these tests themselves. All the more reason to ensure your business stays several steps ahead!
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<h2>THE CYBERSECURITY INSURANCE LANDSCAPE OF 2022</h2>
Even before the proliferation of Russian-based cybersecurity attacks this year, insurance companies have been seriously tightening the screws on protocols in a way that every single business is soon to feel (if they haven&rsquo;t already).
The bad guys are always trying to earn money. Whether through extortion or blackmail, it&rsquo;s always about ROI. That&rsquo;s been the motivation behind a huge rise in malware &ndash; specifically ransomware &ndash; or cyberattacks where your data is held hostage for a price. The rise of cryptocurrency, and the anonymity of financial transactions along with it, has catalyzed a steep rise in ransomware attacks that insurance providers have largely had to cover.&nbsp;
As a result, cyber hackers began exploiting companies with huge, incredibly valuable assets within municipalities that have to carry $10 million insurance policies. (As another aside, never advertise your level of coverage as it will only raise your risk!)&nbsp;
Bad guys can hold your data hostage 2-3 times: once as a traditional ransom, again to prevent that information from being released to the public, and again to allow the victim to understand how they were hacked in the first place. Government agencies, including the NSA, recognized the trend and enacted an executive policy not to pay out these ransoms. As a result, hackers started releasing this stolen data to the world, resulting in catastrophic reputational losses and customer confidence loss, as well as direct financial losses.
Insurance companies realized the inherent issue: it was cheaper for businesses to pay for their policies than it was for the necessary cyber protections to defend against these attacks. So insurance companies changed their formula and are now forcing their customers to perform minimal due diligence to even qualify for coverage.&nbsp;
This minimal level of security involves the 3 controls discussed above: 2FA, XDR, and a clean bill of health. Only then &ndash; when you&rsquo;re not a &ldquo;sitting duck&rdquo; in the eyes of insurers &ndash; do you qualify for coverage.
<h2>&nbsp;HOW DERIVE ADDRESSES THESE THREATS</h2>
To be clear: <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solution/security">Derive Technologies is not a security company but an enterprise IT organization that assesses and prescribes crucial cybersecurity best practices</a>, enabling the actual responders to do their jobs to the best of their ability.
Derive ensures its customers have every proactive tool and control in place to confidently address issues as they take place, allowing real-time protection and lowering the risk of threats. We&rsquo;re also well-positioned to handle cyber defense at any scale thanks to our comprehensive core competencies and partnerships that provide endpoint management and security, 2FA deployment, CyberPeak scanning and testing, and a vast array of broader security offerings via our partner portal, which can align with any business initiative.
Security professionals within the industry are urging organizations to go back to the basics of cybersecurity, which is often responsible for mitigating roughly 95% of cyber threats and reducing a company&rsquo;s overall risk exposure to an acceptable level. Major defenses are traditionally broken down into 3 cyber defense pillars:
1) Prevention (Preparation) using controls such as Firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, Segmentation, and Patch/Vulnerability Management.
2) Detection (&amp; Analysis) using logging and event collection tools such as Logging Services, SIEMs, and other correlation tools.
3) Eradication (&amp; Recovery) is where the tools that can get a system back into good working order come in. Backups, Imaging, snapshots.
Post-Incident Recovery occurs when a business takes the next steps for control implementation to prevent the issue from happening again . . . or at least lower the chance that it could happen again.
Incident Response, on the other hand, is what happens when Prevention fails and other potential threats are identified. The idea is to make sure an organization incorporates all the information available to them to take the best course of action.
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/partners">Derive leverages partners to conduct these services for customers and assists in the remediation of issues identified and long-term prevention and best practice implementation to avoid them in the future.</a>
A strong cybersecurity defense plan often begins with strong asset management and inventory tracking, including both hardware and software. Backups for both digital and physical assets should all be prioritized.&nbsp;
Privileged access management should also be top of mind. Strong passwords and 2FA are excellent, but it&rsquo;s equally important to understand through audit capabilities when privileged accounts are accessing data. This allows businesses to identify unusual patterns of activity to prevent attacks before they occur.
Distilling all the modern cybersecurity needs of an enterprise company into one article is nearly impossible, but hopefully, this outline provides a great framework to begin understanding the present landscape and bolstering your defenses before an attack cripples your budget and reputation.
<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solution/security">Don&rsquo;t wait until you&rsquo;re already compromised. Engage with Derive Technologies today to address existing threats and lower your risk of further attacks</a>. Together, we&rsquo;ll take an agnostic approach to develop a solution track personalized for your business.
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Cybersecurity threats against enterprise businesses, particularly sophisticated and high-value ransomware attacks, are growing more prevalent by the day&hellip;and largely originate from within Russia. Below is a breakdown of 2022&rsquo;s most frequently targeted channels for cybersecurity threats against enterprise businesses.
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<h2>Why Now?</h2>
Fueled by more powerful tools, anonymous and untraceable forms of payment, and global instability, cyber threats are globally on the rise. Cryptocurrency has made transaction anonymity easier than ever, providing a financial infrastructure for an entire economy of cybercrime. The Covid-19 pandemic saw one of the biggest spikes in cybercrime in recent history, with a 148% reported increase year over year.
Russian is quite often the perpetrator. Just this year, the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60378009" rel="nofollow">BBC reported</a> that 74% of all ransomware attacks could be traced to Russian-backed hackers. Now politically motivated by the recent war in Ukraine, cybercrime is once more on the rise and is becoming increasingly adaptive and lucrative for hackers.
Enterprise companies across the nation have spent the last 2 years either initiating or accelerating their remote workforce transformations, and more than ever, these new and more work-vulnerable environments are being exploited by bad actors.&nbsp;
These events, however, are only the most recent and headline-grabbing cyber threats to enterprise businesses in 2022. As cyber risk management struggles to keep up with the proliferation and severity of online threats, it&rsquo;s no longer acceptable not to have cyber protections in place, especially in the eyes of strained insurance providers.&nbsp;
The scope of consequences that stem from cybersecurity attacks is almost too broad to gauge &ndash; loss of reputation, loss of customer trust, and loss of money. That&rsquo;s why, at the bare minimum, your business needs to have the below protections in place to avoid being a sitting duck for bad actors everywhere.
It&rsquo;s up to business leaders to prioritize cyber protection initiatives, install the most up-to-date security infrastructure, and ensure employees remain diligent and maintain every critical protocol.
Below is a breakdown of 2022&rsquo;s most frequently targeted &ldquo;weak points&rdquo; that threaten the integrity of enterprise businesses.
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<h2>Email Security</h2>
By far the most frequently exploited channel for modern cyberattacks, email is a critical channel to protect your entire business, especially as workforces increasingly transition to remote or hybrid work environments that are more reliant on external access.&nbsp;
Email threats come in all shapes and sizes, but some of the most prevalent examples facing enterprise businesses are scams, phishing, &ldquo;whaling&rdquo; (or high-value phishing), malware, and suspicious links, among other threats that can be attached to or hidden within emails.
Implementing a dedicated email security application that can protect from broad stoke attacks and filter out incoming threats is crucial. Nowhere is this more imperative than in remote work environments, where emails can be accessed on mobile devices connected to low-security home networks or extremely vulnerable public networks.&nbsp;
<h2>Antivirus and Anti-Malware Software</h2>
This may seem obvious, but you&rsquo;d be surprised at how many small to medium size businesses lack even baseline cybersecurity. Malware, an abbreviation of &ldquo;malicious software,&rdquo; is an umbrella term that encompasses a long list of threats. Some variations work quickly to delete files or corrupt data, while others can lie dormant for long periods of time and quietly allow hackers a back door into your systems.&nbsp;
The best antivirus software will monitor network traffic in real-time, scan activity log files for signs of suspicious behavior or long-term patterns, and offer threat remediation capabilities.&nbsp;
Below are some of the most common threats they&rsquo;ll protect you against:
Ransomware, as the name suggests, holds critical files ransom by encrypting them and forcing users to pay for their decryption. Widely considered one of the more lucrative forms of malware, ransomware has been devastating to larger organizations. Some high-profile cases have cost companies well into the millions.
Spyware has a number of uses &mdash; be it to steal login credentials or to monitor someone&rsquo;s activity &mdash; but always allows the culprit to access their victim&rsquo;s keystrokes, passwords, or other sensitive data on their computing device.&nbsp;
Rootkits and boot kits are the most advanced of the common malware, lying at the lowest levels of a computer&rsquo;s operating software to stay hidden from traditional scanners or antivirus protections. Bootkits reside so deeply embedded within a computing device that they&rsquo;re functional even before a computer&rsquo;s operating system is.&nbsp;
Lastly, there are Bots that allow criminals remote access and control of computers for DDoS attacks on sites and systems. At the largest scale, this can number to thousands of computers being hacked and controlled simultaneously.
Each of these common malware types is characterized by how they spread. Viruses insert their own code into programs, worms exploit software flaws to spread, trojan horses trick users into installing malware themselves by posturing as legitimate software, and fileless malware exploits bugs or uses built-in tools to reside in computing devices without leaving any traces.
Responsible for over 90% of all malware transmission, email is by far the most common distribution method, however, some more sophisticated types of malware can still spread without any user interaction.&nbsp;
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<h2>Access Control</h2>
Managing which users have access to which parts of your network is critical in ensuring that sensitive data remains protected. Your business should be leveraging security policies to restrict network access to only pre-approved users and devices. It&rsquo;s possible to provide limited access to noncompliant devices or guest users, but this should be used only when necessary and with caution.&nbsp;
Open permissions leave wider gaps for hackers to exploit, so your user restrictions need to be as tight as possible.
Enabling users with frictionless and highly-secure network access will help ensure they have no need to deviate from protocols and stay within the safe confines of your secured work environment. Another way to stay ahead is to perform regular audits of any users with privileged access to scan for any unusual patterns of activity.&nbsp;
This is an essential proactive measure that can help detect threats before it&rsquo;s too late and leads right into the next topic.&nbsp;
<h2>Behavioral Analytics</h2>
In order to recognize abnormal user behavior, first define what constitutes &ldquo;normal&rdquo; behavior around an everyday user&rsquo;s job responsibilities, applications, and network. Dedicated analytical software is designed to identify abnormal behavior for you, but its success is dependent on the customer baselines that you&rsquo;ve defined for it.
When done well, this is an easy way to proactively identify threats and isolate them before they inflict any damage.
<h2>Web Security</h2>
Web security software is one of the most essential baseline protections any serious business needs to protect themselves from even common, broad-stroke threats. It not only prevents users from accessing vulnerable or at-risk websites that may contain malware, but it also defends against other web-based threats and protects web gateways from intrusion.&nbsp;
If the cost of cybersecurity is daunting to you and your business, keep this in mind: the cost of defense before an attack will always be less than the cost of repair after an attack. Invest in keeping critical data safe, workforce protected, and businesses operating at peak performance with a clean bill of cyber health.
Sources
<a href="https://techhq.com/2022/03/breaking-down-the-biggest-cybersecurity-threats-incoming-in-2022/">Techhq</a>
<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk-and-resilience/our-insights/cybersecurity-trends-looking-over-the-horizon">Mckinsey</a>
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Mobile healthcare solutions are up & coming, but they face certain challenges. Consult us now to evaluate your technological solutions & optimize them.

How Enhanced Mobility Overcomes the Challenges in Modern Healthcare

<h2>Before the pandemic, new<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare"> healthcare</a> technologies such as telehealth and clinal mobile devices were already making an impact worldwide. </h2>
However, now as we continue to move through unprecedented demands, the push for innovation has been superseded by the need for agile practicality.

Results shared at the Becker&rsquo;s 5th Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference indicate that healthcare facilities both big and small are still struggling with:
<ul>
<li>Caregiver engagement&nbsp;- As more COVID-19 cases are added to pre-existing treatment plans, healthcare professionals are overwhelmed daily with patients. Stress can lead to costly accidents and mix-ups. </li>
<li>Recruiting&nbsp;- Turnover rates in healthcare have been steadily increasing since 2016, reaching over 20% in 2020. CNAs have the highest turnover rates, going as far as 40% in nursing homes. Not only is recruiting new experienced caregivers difficult but complicated technologies and workflows may further contribute to turnover rates as employees struggle to adapt to new procedures. </li>
<li>Cybersecurity&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.herjavecgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Healthcare-Cybersecurity-Report-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">More than 93% of healthcare facilities</a>&nbsp;have experienced a data breach within the last four years, compromising both billing and patient information. As digitization continues to reframe multiple industries, healthcare facilities tend to be more skeptical. However, paper-based systems and manual data entry also leave room for costly errors. </li>
<li>Patient Safety&nbsp;- All these challenges ultimately affect patient safety as caregivers struggle to ensure accuracy, privacy, and efficiency on multiple fronts.</li>
</ul>
Yesterday&rsquo;s challenges have become today&rsquo;s major obstacles in providing superior patient care. While there are many technological solutions currently attempting to solve these issues, <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive Technologies recommends evaluating your clinical mobile devices with the following questions to pinpoint optimization opportunities</a>.
<h2>Are your devices easy to use?</h2>
Research presented in Zebra&rsquo;s 2022 Hospital Vision Study highlights the increased demand caregivers currently face to adopt mobile devices. From nurses to pharmacists, an estimated 40% or more of the hospital staff will adopt mobile devices to help prevent miscommunication, which currently accounts for at least 70% of medical errors.
To accommodate less-experienced staff members, we recommend devices with:
<ul>
<li>Familiar operating systems like Android</li>
<li>Touchscreen devices to reduce manual data entry</li>
<li>Dependable training and technical support services are available &nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h2>Are your devices easy to manage?</h2>
As more devices are deployed, IT departments need a simpler way to manage devices. Applications such as Zebra&rsquo;s PowerPrecion+ and Device Tracker assist teams in tracking battery life and device performance to safeguard uptime.
<h3>Can you store sensitive data in your device while complying with HIPAA laws?</h3>
Instead of having to transpose written notes onto a desktop, modernized clinical devices running on updated operating systems can capture, store, share, and protect patient information. For example, the new TC52x-HC on Zebra&rsquo;s fortified Android-OS, protecting data with:
<ul>
<li>Government-grade encryption</li>
<li>Two-factor authentication</li>
<li>90-day security patches &nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h2>Does your device streamline multiple workflows?</h2>
To minimize the need of carrying multiple devices around the hospital, modernized devices can perform several tasks such as data capture and EHR reporting. This prevents additional devices from being lost and increasing operation costs.
If you answered &ldquo;no&rdquo; to any of these questions, it may be time to consider modernizing your digital devices. As a&nbsp;Zebra Business Partner,&nbsp;Derive Technologies&nbsp;offers several <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">future-forward mobility solutions</a> designed to survive the high demands of <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare</a>. To explore the benefits of our full device portfolio,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">contact us</a>&nbsp;today.

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What are the Components of an Efficient Telehealth System?

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<h2>A mere five years ago, telehealth was slowly making its presence known, used by less than 20% of healthcare facilities in the U.S. </h2>
However, during the coronavirus outbreak, that number skyrocketed by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6943a3.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">154%</a>&nbsp;within the first weeks of April. Saving patients an average of over&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/2017/01/30/videodoctor/?sh=40b199a210ce" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">100 minutes</a>&nbsp;of traveling and waiting time, telehealth has earned its place in the modern <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare">healthcare landscape</a>.

However, despite its newfound popularity, several concerns still pose a challenge to full integration, such as:
<ul>
<li>Legal and regulatory issues</li>
<li>Patient confidentiality for EHRs</li>
<li>Payment tracking and security</li>
<li>Staff adoption rates</li>
<li>Loss of &ldquo;human touch&rdquo;</li>
<li>Logistical and IT constraints</li>
</ul>
Nevertheless, results uncovered in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/vertical-solutions/healthcare/white-paper/2022-hospital-vision-study-en-global.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zebra&rsquo;s 2022 Hospital Vision Study</a>&nbsp;cite telehealth as one of the top technologies changing hospitals nationwide with over 70% of patients reporting feeling more comfortable about the use of clinical devices in healthcare facilities. With telehealth here to stay, we&rsquo;ve investigated a few components to consider when preparing your healthcare technology to accommodate a new telehealth solution.
<h2>Maintaining Continuity in Connectivity</h2>
Because telehealth is by no means a substitute for face-to-face treatments, solutions require dependable <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solution/networking">networking and connectivity</a> signals to bridge the gap between distanced patients and caregivers. Devices should be able to sustain connections while displaying supporting resources &mdash; EHRs, lab reports, test results, etc. &mdash;at the same time.
<h2>Ensuring Trusted Security and Data Confidentiality</h2>
2020 also saw a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/average-cost-healthcare-data-breach-rises-to-7-1m-according-to-ibm-report" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">10%</a>&nbsp;increase in healthcare data breaches, resulting in an average $6.45 billion loss per breach. As we continue to move into the digital age, healthcare-grade durability must extend into the digital landscape as well. That means outdated operating systems, applications, and software all pose a threat to efficient telehealth. Modernized data security in enterprise-ready operating systems like Zebra&rsquo;s fortified Android protects patient information with government-grade encryption, two-factor authentication, and customized security levels.
<h2>Preparing for the Future with Scalability</h2>
Quality healthcare will always be in demand. Therefore, your mobile devices should be flexible and scalable to serve more patients&mdash;whether they originate from the aging population, a sudden health crisis, or recurrent chronic issues. This is where&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Tablets/l10-series/l10-android/spec-sheet/l10-series-android-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zebra&rsquo;s Rugged L10 Tablets</a>&nbsp;can provide immediate benefits, with their flexible networking options, Android OS-fortified protection, and streamlined computing, communication, and data capture capabilities, enabling staff to rely upon them anywhere in and out of the hospital.
<h2>On a Final Note: Expanding Ease-of-Use</h2>
Lastly, devices should prioritize ease of use to protect the human touch. When doctors and nurses lack confidence in operating clinical devices, patients may feel discouraged to trust in your telehealth system. Therefore, devices should simplify file retrieval, data sharing, videoconferencing, and troubleshooting to help users feel confident in conducting healthcare without worrying about device performance. Over 80% of Americans currently own a mobile device compatible with telehealth systems, further helping telehealth become accessible to more patients. To see how you can <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">start equipping your staff with future-forward mobility solutions</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contact">CONTACT US</a>&nbsp;for a free assessment of your current workflows.
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In the healthcare sector, misidentification results in wrong-site procedures & medication errors. Read about the technologies that can curb this issue here.

<h2>An estimated&nbsp;<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/trf.15160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1 in every 2,326&nbsp;</a>blood specimens is inaccurately labeled, translating into a recurrent error risk once every two weeks for a standard-sized hospital.</h2>
<img alt="" src="https://www.derivetech.com/sites/default/files/DD8538_Derive%20Tech-Featured%20Image-Feb%2011th-No%20Copy.jpg" />Specimen and patient misidentification have been age-old issues in healthcare, stemming from a variety of shared issues such as:
<ul>
<li>Overworked medical staff under stressful conditions</li>
<li>Manual data entry with illegible handwriting</li>
<li>Specimens are labeled far away from the patient</li>
<li>Non-verbal patients are unable to vocally confirm their identity</li>
<li>Similar medical records &ndash; instances of patients sharing the same name, surname, and date-of-birth</li>
<li>Patients moved from their beds without updating electronic location records</li>
</ul>
In addition to obvious lethal consequences, misidentification also costs up to $208 per patient in specimen recollection. To mitigate errors,<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/verticals/healthcare"> healthcare facilities</a> attempt to implement electronic identification systems, yet successful implementation often hinges on ease of use, scalability, and cost. Built with these three factors in mind, Zebra&rsquo;s healthcare-grade devices offer a streamlined option for curbing misidentification while providing a wide range of devices for <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">solution customization:</a>
<ol>
<li>Healthcare-grade Consumables&nbsp;&ndash; At the foundation of an identification system are dependable printing supplies like Zebra&rsquo;s certified healthcare-grade wristbands and tags. Made to withstand constant exposure to water and chemicals for up to 14 days,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Supplies/Laser,%20Thermal%20and%20RFID%20Wristbands/GENERAL/brief/wristband-infographic-talk-share-campaign-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zebra Wristbands&nbsp;</a>remain scannable through challenging conditions, so patients can be identified any place, at any time. Likewise, certified labels are created for maximized legibility, yet their smooth coating also protects printheads, ultimately reducing operational costs and enhancing printer uptime. </li>
<li>Mobile and Portable Healthcare-Grade Printers&nbsp;&ndash; When labels are printed far from the patient/specimen, caregivers increase the risk of applying the wrong label to the wrong patient in addition to wasting valuable time traveling between point-of-care and printing stations. Printers like the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Printers/Desktop%20Printers/zd510-hc/spec-sheets/zd510-hc-specification-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZD510&nbsp;</a>have a very small desktop footprint, allowing them to be placed much closer to the point of care. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Printers/Mobile%20Printers/zq600hc-series-mobile-printers/spec-sheet/zq600-hc-series-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZQ600-HC&nbsp;</a>takes this a step further by equipping staff with fast mobile printing power, enabling instant labeling without time-consuming back-and-forth travel to printer resources. Lastly, for more high-volume printing needs, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Printers/Desktop%20Printers/zd620-series-desktop-printers/zd620-healthcare/specification-sheet/zd620hc-specification-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ZD620-HC&nbsp;</a>can deliver crisp barcodes that retain legibility. Its cordless feature also allows you to add durable printing power to your mobile carts while reducing ribbon changes by 75% when combined with Zebra&rsquo;s 300m ribbon. </li>
<li>Healthcare-grade mobile scanners&nbsp;&ndash; Once legible labels are printed and applied, your staff must be able to scan and verify identification easily. That&rsquo;s where devices like Zebra&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/barcode-scanners/hands-free/ds9900-series/ds9908hd-ds9908hd-r/spec-sheet/ds9900-lab-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DS9900&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/barcode-scanners/Healthcare%20Scanners/ds8100hc-series/spec-sheets/ds8100-hc-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DS8100-HC&nbsp;</a>prove essential as they provide scalable scanning power that integrates into your current workflows. Eye-friendly aimers and disinfectant-ready casings make these scanners able to be deployed near patients without compromising quality care. For more streamlined scanning, mobile computers such as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/Mobile_Computers/Hand-Held%20Computers/tc52-hc/spec-sheet/tc52-hc-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TC52-HC&nbsp;</a>combine intelligent data capture with HIPAA-compliant data sharing and processing, all facilitated through a familiar Android OS interface for maximum ease of use.</li>
</ol>
Healthcare misidentification is cited as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471642/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the top-ten&nbsp;</a>healthcare crises in the 21st century, which is why <a href="https://www.derivetech.com/solutions">Derive Technologies is ready to partner with you to secure dependable identification for both patients and specimens</a>. To see how these technologies can work in your facility,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.derivetech.com/contacts">CONTACT US&nbsp;</a>for a careful assessment of your current workflows.

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Discover essential cybersecurity strategies for healthcare organizations. Learn how to implement workflow transformation, strategic network solutions, and protect patient data against rising threats.

Healthcare Cybersecurity: Best Practices to Safeguard Patient Data

Discover essential cybersecurity strategies for healthcare organizations. Learn how to implement workflow transformation, strategic network solutions, and protect patient data against rising threats.

Essential Cybersecurity Best Practices for Healthcare Organizations

Learn how two New York nonprofits streamlined user access with Single Sign-On, reducing IT headaches and boosting productivity effortlessly.

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How Two Healthcare Nonprofits Streamlined User Access and Enhanced Productivity with Single Sign-On

Discover Derive Technologies&rsquo; newly enhanced Managed Desktop Services. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

The Clock Is Ticking: Windows 10 Approaches End of Support

Discover how Derive Technologies can improve healthcare operations through a use case. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

Discover how Derive Technologies can improve healthcare operations through a use case. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

How a Strategic IT Roadmap Transformed Healthcare Operations: The RiverSpring Health Story

Discover how Derive Technologies improved healthcare for a Hospital in New Jersey. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

Discover how Derive Technologies improved healthcare for a Hospital in New Jersey. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

How a New Jersey Hospital's Operations Transformed with Virtual Desktop

Discover how Derive Technologies helped a NYC Medical Practice transform its patient care service. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

Discover how Derive Technologies helped a NYC Medical Practice transform its patient care service. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

How Patient Care in a Major NYC Medical Practice Was Transformed With Wall-Mounted Ergonomic Solutions

Discover how Derive Technologies can help you improve the operations of your legal firm. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

Discover how Derive Technologies can help you improve the operations of your legal firm. Secure, scalable, and proactive endpoint management that optimizes IT operations and empowers your business. Learn more today!

The Ticking Clock: Why Law Firms Must Upgrade to Windows 11 Before October 2025

Learn Why and How Your Law Firm Should Upgrade to Windows 11 Before October 2025

With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, law firms face a critical decision point. Here's why transitioning to Windows 11 sooner rather than later makes strategic sense for your practice.&nbsp;

Why Your Law Firm Should Upgrade to Windows 11 Before October 2025

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Explore how Windows 11 leverages AI with NPUs and Microsoft Copilot to enhance productivity, collaboration, and security for a smarter computing experience.

How AI is Transforming the Windows 11 PC Experience

Microsoft's latest operating system has embraced AI capabilities that extend beyond simple voice assistants, creating an ecosystem where your computer actively anticipates your needs and enhances productivity. Learn more now.

Explore the unique mobile security challenges for law firms in a hybrid work environment. Learn how a comprehensive Mobile Device Management (MDM) strategy can protect sensitive client data and meet ethical obligations.

Mobile Device Management for the Modern Law Firm

Attorneys work outside the office more than ever. Discover how Mobile Device Management (MDM) is essential for law firms to secure client data on mobile devices and comply with ethical rules.

Discover why traditional security measures are insufficient against modern cyber threats, and learn about the growing security crisis and the true cost of data breaches in the legal sector.

Law Firm Endpoint Security: Hidden Vulnerabilities & Why Traditional Security Fails

Law firms face increasing cyber threats, but many overlook vulnerabilities in devices connecting to their networks. Learn why traditional security isn't enough to protect your firm's endpoints and sensitive client data.

The Hidden Vulnerabilities in Law Firm Endpoints

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Understand the intersection of legal ethics and technology security for attorneys. Learn how strong endpoint security measures are crucial for meeting ABA Model Rules.

Ethical Obligations and Endpoint Security

Meeting ethical obligations in the digital age requires robust technology security. Learn how endpoint security helps law firms comply with ABA rules and protect sensitive client information.

Discover how law firms can integrate endpoint security practices throughout the entire client lifecycle, from initial intake to case closure. Learn how this continuous approach protects sensitive information and meets compliance requirements.

Endpoint Security Through the Client Lifecycle

Security isn't just a one-time setup. Learn how to implement endpoint security measures at every stage of the client lifecycle, ensuring continuous data protection for your law firm.

Understand the importance of cybersecurity liability insurance for law firms and how implementing strong endpoint security measures is essential for fulfilling fiduciary duty and meeting insurance requirements.

Cybersecurity Liability Insurance for Law Firms

Cybersecurity insurance is vital for law firms. Learn how endpoint security is a key component in obtaining coverage, meeting fiduciary duties, and protecting your firm against financial risks from cyber attacks.

Discover how partnering with a Managed Service Provider like Derive Technologies can streamline operations and boost productivity with robust IT support solutions.

Enhancing Business Efficiency with Managed IT Services | Derive Technologies

Discover how partnering with a Managed Service Provider like Derive Technologies can streamline operations and boost productivity with robust IT support solutions.

Enhancing Business Efficiency with IT Managed Services

Discover the newest cybersecurity trends to ensure your business stays protected. Knowing the latest updates, attack vectors, and protective services can prevent your business from falling into a high risk situation.

New Cybersecurity Trends 2025 | Derive Tech

Discover the newest cybersecurity trends to ensure your business stays protected. Knowing the latest updates, attack vectors, and protective services can prevent your business from falling into a high risk situation.

New Cybersecurity Trends and How to Protect Your Business

From mobility to cloud services, explore how Derive Technologies is redefining healthcare IT support through deep expertise, hands-on service, and future-ready solutions.

Transformative Advances in Healthcare Technology: How Derive is Leading the Way

From mobility to cloud services, explore how Derive Technologies is redefining healthcare IT support through deep expertise, hands-on service, and future-ready solutions.

Derive Technologies: Transformative Advances in Healthcare Technology

Discover the top IT service trends shaping 2025, from AI to edge computing. Learn how Derive Technologies helps businesses prepare for the future of digital innovation.

Future Trends in IT Services 2025 | Derive Technologies

Discover the top IT service trends shaping 2025, from AI to edge computing. Learn how Derive Technologies helps businesses prepare for the future of digital innovation.

Future Trends in IT Services 2025

Discover how Derive Technologies can transform procurement with digital solutions that will streamline purchasing, reduce costs, and enhance compliance for your business.

The Role of E-Procurement in Modernizing Business Operations | Derive Technologies

Discover how Derive Technologies can transform procurement with digital solutions that will streamline purchasing, reduce costs, and enhance compliance for your business.

The Role of E-Procurement in Modernizing Business Operations

Learn how Derive Technologies helps enterprises adopt Zero Trust Security Architecture to protect data, meet compliance, and secure modern IT environments.

Building a Zero Trust Security Architecture

Learn how Derive Technologies helps enterprises adopt Zero Trust Security Architecture to protect data, meet compliance, and secure modern IT environments.

Boost your healthcare organization's cybersecurity by building a culture of security awareness. Learn how Derive Technologies supports staff training, HIPAA compliance, and enterprise IT protection with tailored solutions for safer healthcare operations.

Improve Your Healthcare Organization's Security Awareness | Derive Technologies

Boost your healthcare organization's cybersecurity by building a culture of security awareness. Learn how Derive Technologies supports staff training, HIPAA compliance, and enterprise IT protection with tailored solutions for safer healthcare operations.

Improve Your Healthcare Organization's Security Awareness

Hybrid cloud isn’t just a trend, it’s the future of enterprise IT. Here’s why smart companies are shifting to hybrid infrastructure and how it solves today’s biggest IT challenges.

Why Hybrid Cloud Is the Future of Enterprise IT | Derive Technologies

Hybrid cloud isn&rsquo;t just a trend, it&rsquo;s the future of enterprise IT. Here&rsquo;s why smart companies are shifting to hybrid infrastructure and how it solves today&rsquo;s biggest IT challenges.

Why Hybrid Cloud Is the Future of Enterprise IT

A closer look at the leading IT consulting companies for healthcare and why Derive Technologies is trusted by healthcare systems to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.

Top Healthcare IT Consulting Companies

Downtime is expensive. Here's how to build an IT disaster recovery plan that minimizes disruption, protects your data, and gets your business back online, fast.