In some ways, the combination of managed service providers and healthcare clients is the perfect storm of targets for hackers. Attacks on managed service providers are on the rise, as are attacks on healthcare records. In fact, there were a total of 41.4 million patient records breached in 2020 alone. That’s why HIPAA compliance is so important for managed service providers.
Managed Service Providers can support clients in nearly any industry with the right security and certifications. Typically, MSPs will find that maintaining compliance for some industries will require more overhead than others. These industries will include those like healthcare and government.
Thousands of companies, and an increasing number of government agencies, are relying on managed service providers for products like cloud storage, security administration, and productivity technologies. This has put tech experts in the profitable, and challenging, position of providing innovative products to support their clients.