Resources
FTC Safeguards compliance, cybersecurity, and managed IT for small Houston offices. Written for owners and managers.
A San Antonio dental group was hit through remote desktop web services. What happened, the 60-day clock it started, and how a practice checks its own.
Managed IT runs about $100 to $200 per user per month nationally, with published guides spanning $75 to $400. What drives the number, and where we sit.
The closing side is covered, the title insurance side answers to TDI. Most Texas offices do both, so the written program is still the job.
Most agencies are covered, but the FTC is usually not the regulator. Who enforces it in Texas, and what the safeguarding duty still requires.
What working the overnight shift at a Houston clinical lab, handling real patient data, taught me about HIPAA that no training module ever did.
Seven years in IT, starting in healthcare then an MSP serving banks and financial firms. What I kept seeing, and why I started Arain Systems.
What the FTC Safeguards Rule requires of tax preparers and CPA firms, what a written information security program must contain, and who is exempt.
Nearly every CPA and tax firm is a financial institution under GLBA. The test that decides it, and the written program the Rule requires.
A plain-English guide to the FTC Safeguards Rule for small financial offices: who it covers, what a written program needs, and the 5,000 threshold.