Why Your Customers Need To Adopt A HIPAA Mindset
Paul Tracey’s Mission To Make HIPAA The Standard Across ALL Industries
E very morning, when Paul Tracey, founder and CEO of Innovative Technologies, wakes up, he’s greeted with a new list of cybersecurity threats.
The framework Tracey uses to protect client data is based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule. “While HIPAA was designed to protect the privacy of patient records, it is actually an excellent framework for any organization’s security plan,” Tracey explains. “It not only addresses technical measures needed
The morning we spoke, one of Tracey’s clients had an employee who downloaded a document at their home, uploaded it to their Google Drive, then downloaded it again when they got
to control the physical environment, but also emphasizes the administrative processes necessary to secure data.” Tracey’s idea to use HIPAA as a standard for all clients is even more relevant now that states have passed laws that mirror many of the core principles of HIPAA. But even if your state hasn’t passed laws yet, Tracey urges compliance, saying companies can’t afford to wait. “It is crucial for organizations to implement tight safety protocols long before they are legally required to do so,” Tracey says. “We’re finding serious issues such as malwares that hijack your browser and do things in the background without being found. By the time a company calls for help, often their
to work. Loaded with malware, the document put the client’s company in danger. Fortunately, because of the procedures Tracey has in place, his team discovered the document immediately and ended that threat within 35 seconds from when it started. But for many companies that don’t have a cybersecurity plan in place, this wouldn’t have ended so well. Tracey realized early in his IT
career that companies were grossly undereducated and unprepared for cyberthreats. Therefore, for over a decade, Tracey has been on a mission to educate SMB owners whose livelihoods are at risk by what they don’t know about IT and cybersecurity threats. The author of “Delete The Hackers Playbook” and co-author of “Cyberstorm” (due to be released in 2022), he started his own company after witnessing a large hospital pay hefty fines when their lax security caused a major breach. Realizing that “cybersecurity inequity is highly problematic,” Tracey dedicated himself to fighting cybercrime for the business owners who are the most vulnerable. Today, he helps businesses establish a company culture that supports safe, secure, and efficient IT.
entire office is already filled with malware. You can’t afford to wait the 3–5 years it takes from proposal to enforcement — always follow stricter safety policies than the law dictates.” WHY HIPAA STANDARDS MATTER Every single day, 2,300 small businesses are breached. According to the FBI, 95% of all successful attacks during 2020 came through email phishing scams or links. Tracey believes that if more companies followed the HIPAA standards, this number would be greatly reduced. “Small companies end up going out of business and quietly just disappear,” he says.
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