About Data Security

TechR2 serves on the Ohio Cybersecurity Collaboration Committee (OC3), works with US critical infrastructure organizations, and maintains the highest cybersecurity standards themselves. Why? When you read about the many cybersecurity breaches in your community, it is partners like TechR2 that are making a difference.

The Zero Trust Security Model (ZTSM) recognizes that the perpetrator has penetrated your single layer of defense. As those with military experience understand, the ZTSM is a defense in depth strategy. The process involves a 5-step approach which are Define, Map, Design, Create and Monitor.

You wake up on Labor Day and you have time to think about the last year, your community, your family, and your friends. You think about your education, healthcare, or business network. Your group does not have a secondary system and like 80% of organizations in the US, you and your team have not rehearsed any cyber-attack recovery. Ever.

Data privacy is important to each US citizen, and it is undoubtedly one of the most important subjects that all Americans agree upon. But UNM Health, including UNM Hospital, UNM Medical Group, Inc., and UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center waited until late summer to report to 637,232 US citizen’s that their PII and other data was breached in May. That is several months late. That is an issue.

Data security, TechR2’s core business, begins with a focused strategy resting on a solid set of national and international certifications. Our new customers are always amazed at the differences when they signed with TechR2 and left their old non-compliant third-party providers. Trust and data security expertise.

Working remotely is not a trend, it is the future. But in exchange for eliminating 2-way rush hour traffic, cost of parking and the expense of the cubicle environment, this generation of computer users need to embrace the complexities of data security to protect their organization across an even wider geographical area.

What can we learn from these government agencies that are failing external audits in protecting our data? In general, these agencies “consistently failed to implement certain key cybersecurity requirements including encryption of sensitive data, limiting each user’s access to the information and systems needed to perform their job, and multi-factor authentication”.

There are three major weaknesses in US cyber defenses not reported by us, but by every major external cybersecurity auditor in reports to the federal government since 2018. One, the major OEMs, corporations and government agencies use non-compliant third-party vendors for products and services.