The healthcare and public sectors are hugely attractive to cybercriminals, unsurprisingly, given the damage a data breach could cause. To make matters worse, many organisations within this industry have been unable to fight back due to limited resources, knowledge, time, and money. There’s also a paralysis over how to act brought on by the overwhelming amount of data, responsibilities, and vulnerabilities facing the teams.
Until now.
McCormickCo Security was founded to help organisations overcome their limitations and be compliant and protected all year round.
It’s a bold pledge but a necessary one.
We thought we’d take some time to explain firstly why it’s a promise we feel we must make, and secondly how we’ll be fulfilling it.
The evolving threat landscape
Having worked in healthcare and cybersecurity for over 20 years, we’ve watched the number and severity of data breaches increase rapidly. In an attempt to support the sector, a range of regulations have been introduced to keep organisations safe. One example, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), an annual online self-assessment, is the cornerstone of standards for healthcare organisations and their associates, designed to clarify what is required of them to stay protected.
The challenge is that the DSPT takes a great deal of time to complete and maintain. More than many organisations can spare.
What we’re offering is the ability to meet the cybersecurity standards required to comply with DSPT regulations not just on the day of submission, but every day going forward. With new threats emerging all of the time, this support would mean that you are more likely to know about available patches and will have applied them in time. Your organisation will always be aware, ready, and able to act, regardless of its size or capability.
How we can help businesses overcome their limitations
To stay protected and compliant all year around requires having a full view of your business’ digital systems and assets to see where the threats and vulnerabilities are, and the ability to assess this data to take quick and effective action. There are many tools, platforms and consultancies available to offer support here but they either come at a high price, require a great deal of input and effort by the user, or are so broad that they don’t drill down enough into exactly what your business needs.
So how can we deliver a high quality low cost solution and thereby deliver on our promise to help businesses stay protected and compliant?
Firstly, overheads. We’ve designed our business to be incredibly lean. And because of our knowledge and experience in this sector, we can focus on exactly what is needed; no time is wasted elsewhere. We have a small team consisting of some of the brightest minds and we’re all focussed on the clients’ needs.
Secondly, our appetite. We do not have our sights set on supporting every business in the United Kingdom. Our services and technology are custom-built for the health and public sector.
Thirdly, there’s our technology. DSPT View provides deep analysis of your server and endpoint estate scored against Data Security and Protection Toolkit, making it a crucial tool for both compliance and security. The only tool on the market that keeps your data within your own environment, it’s the most secure architecture one can design.
Not only that but it’s also the first platform of its kind to give near to real-time analysis of the integrated care system (ICS) or an organisation’s estate from within your own boundaries, providing you with the key points in a manner so clear that everyone from the engineers to the board can understand. With cybersecurity now considered an organisation risk, rather than the responsibility or accountability of the IT department, DSPT View allows for shared ownership across an organisation of cybersecurity responsibility to help ensure compliance.
Installed within four minutes, using Microsoft Defender and Microsoft BI, and refreshed automatically with zero disruption to the user, our tool keeps our customers constantly updated on the state of their environment.
Finally, there’s our approach. For our services to work effectively, we need to work in partnership with each and every one of our clients, which means working on their terms and to their constraints, and by being brutally honest with them at all times. We also invest a lot of time on furthering our knowledge of trends, techniques in order to improve the accuracy and scale of our service.
And there you have it. A lean business model, a team of experts, and the best and most targeted view of your digital ecosystem.
No more excuses…. What’s your next move?