Many healthcare IT/cyber teams are small and resource-constrained – often on the brink of burnout. They don’t have the headcount of larger organizations, yet they still have the potential to be elite.
That’s the topic explored in a new Fortified webinar called “Overwhelmed To Elite: Leveling Up Healthcare Cybersecurity Teams”. The webinar contains helpful tips and strategies from Preston Duren, Fortified’s Vice President of Threat Services and Jason Myers, Vice President of Advisory Services.
Availability is the North Star
At the outset, Duren and Myers discuss why availability is the North Star when it comes to transforming a small, overextended staff into an elite one.
To ensure optimum availability, there are four foundational capabilities where even small IT/cyber staffs can achieve excellence:
- Identity Management: A Microsoft engineer or partner on staff
- Firewall Management: A staff member or partner who can provide both east-west and north-south firewall safeguards
- Patch Management: A staff member or partner who can patch assets in a timely manner
- Visibility: A staff member or partner who has tools visibility and can troubleshoot your entire network
Building Elite Communication Skills
World-class healthcare IT/cyber teams are full of great communicators and team-builders, not just technical experts.
For example, elite organizations have people on board who are topnotch storytellers. A “storyteller” is someone who can make tech topics relatable to non-technical executives and decision-makers. Instead of talking about Java vulnerabilities, they focus on the financial and human costs of data breaches and downtime. They know how to “cut to the chase” without causing an executive’s eyes to glaze over.
Another hallmark of an elite team is the ability to be organizationally agile. You need all the allies you can get, both within the IT/cyber team and with C-suite executives, clinicians and finance people.
Finding The Right Partners
Small IT/cyber teams can achieve amazing results when they leverage the wide-ranging skills of a proven MSSP. Often this is a “fractional” resource that’s far less expensive than retaining a full-time expert. An MSSP resource functions as a force multiplier who amplifies the expertise you have on staff.
An outside partner serves as a valuable “second set of eyes” when you suspect trouble is lurking. It’s a way to scale up your capabilities without adding full-time head count.
A trusted partner is someone you can turn to both in times of crisis and smooth sailing. The partner is always there to bounce ideas off and often has years of specialized experience in areas like Active Directory upkeep, network visibility, Windows vulnerabilities, and much more.
What You’ll Learn in This Webinar
Our new webinar takes a deeper dive into topics that can help small IT shops level up and become elite. These include:
- How to conduct firewall audits
- Configuration best practices
- Insights on AI hijacking
- Evaluating third-party risk
- How to identify a high-risk vendor
Climb Higher with Confidence
It’s easy for small healthcare IT/cyber teams to get discouraged. You may be asking, “How can we prepare for new threats when it’s all we can do to keep up with technical debt and patching our legacy systems?”
This webinar will give smaller organizations the confidence that they can match the capabilities of elite shops, even when resources are limited.
Click here to watch two industry veterans share strategies and insights that can help your organization level up to the ranks of the elite.
