Pattern analysis
Reading across many incidents to find structural patterns — why a particular failure mode keeps appearing, what’s changing in a sector, how a category of risk shows up in OCR data. Each piece uses real public data and a published methodology.
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Why Gmail keeps appearing in small-practice breach reports
A 24-month read of OCR filings across 1,847 dental, optometry, and chiropractic incidents reveals a single shared failure mode — and three controls that consistently break the chain.
- Pattern
Vendor sprawl: how the average dental practice shares PHI with 27 third parties
A field study with anonymized network traffic across 40 practices. The median count surprised even the practices themselves — and only 9 of those 27 had current BAAs.