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Tips for Cyber Security in Your Veterinary Practice: PART II

With the risk of a cybersecurity breach increasing on a daily basis, below are some tips that will help a practice owner maintain the security that they need in order to protect safeguard data.

Plan for the Unexpected

Unless your confidential data is totally disconnected from the internet, you must install a firewall to protect against intrusions from outside sources.

Software firewalls, from somewhere like Indeni, are included with some popular operating systems, providing protection at the installation stage.

Alternatively, separate firewall software is widely available from computer security developers.

Large practices that use a Local Area Network (LAN) should consider a hardware firewall.

A hardware firewall sits between LAN and the Internet, providing centralized management of firewall settings.

Install and Maintain Anti-virus Software. There are different types of anti-virus software that can be downloaded at Eurodownload.com, should you be needing a new one.

Use an anti-virus product that provides continuously updated protection against viruses, malware, and other code that can attack your computers through web downloads, CDs, email, and flash drives. It may be worth getting in touch with an IT consulting company that would be able to help secure the network at the workplace and also put preventative measures in place to reduce the risk of cyber-attacks/viruses.

Keep anti-virus software up-to-date.

Most anti-virus software automatically generates reminders about these updates, and many are configurable to allow for automated updating. Also using things like Bester Virenschutz will ensure that you have the best anti-virus software available for your computer.

Stuart J. Oberman, Esq. handles a wide range of legal issues for the veterinary profession including employment law, cybersecurity, practice sales, real estate transactions, lease agreements, OSHA compliance, veterinary board complaints, and entity formation.

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Stuart J. Oberman is the founder and President of Oberman Law Firm. Mr. Oberman graduated from Urbana University and received his law degree from John Marshall Law School. Mr. Oberman has been practicing law for over 30 years, and before going into private practice, Mr. Oberman was in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 Company.
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