Our Approach to Healthcare Cybersecurity
Access Business Technologies is a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider. We manage Microsoft 365 tenants for organizations whose patient records and operational continuity depend on enterprise-grade security. Our role is infrastructure, not clinical practice.
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Every patient deserves a secure record
We extend that principle to every healthcare organization we serve, regardless of mission, denomination, region, specialty, or patient population.
Healthcare is the most-targeted industry in the world. Threat actors come from every direction. Some are organized ransomware operators looking for ransom payments. Some are state-aligned advanced persistent threats looking for intellectual property or strategic intelligence. Some are hacktivists motivated by causes from across the political spectrum. Some are insider compromises that started as a phishing email on a single workstation. All of them use techniques that a properly configured Microsoft 365 tenant can defend against.
Our customers decide what care to provide. Our job is to make sure the technology that supports that care meets the security standards that regulators, examiners, and patients expect. We do not categorize attackers by ideology. We protect against attacks.
A neutral look at the numbers
Our threat-intelligence sources publish data on attacker activity regardless of attacker motivation. The pattern is consistent year after year.
These figures cover healthcare as a whole. The pattern intensifies for smaller organizations: limited IT budgets, sensitive patient health information, vendor-chain dependencies, and regulatory exposure all concentrate in the same place. For a 25-person clinic, the same threat actors that target 200-bed hospital networks are equally relevant, and the per-record breach cost in healthcare is $398 (the highest of any industry IBM tracks).
Tier 1 Microsoft CSP, not a healthcare vendor
ABT manages Microsoft 365 tenants via Granular Delegated Administrative Privileges (GDAP). The customer's patient data lives inside the customer's own Microsoft tenant. Microsoft 365 is the platform; ABT applies the configuration discipline that makes the tenant HIPAA-ready.
The Microsoft Business Associate Agreement that comes with qualified Microsoft 365 licenses covers Microsoft's responsibilities under HIPAA. Our work is to configure the customer's tenant so that the customer's responsibilities are also met.
The Microsoft 365 surface ABT configures and monitors for healthcare tenants:
This separation is structural. Customer data lives inside the customer's Microsoft 365 tenant, behind Microsoft's identity controls and the hardened configuration ABT applies. Delegated admin scopes our access to configuration tasks. We manage tenants. The tenant stays with the customer.
- Identity and access: Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access enforces phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication on every account that touches electronic protected health information.
- Audit and evidence: Microsoft Purview Audit retains every sign-in, file access, and administrative action so the customer can produce the documentation HIPAA Security Rule expects.
- Endpoint and device: Microsoft Intune confirms encryption and policy compliance on every laptop, desktop, and mobile device the customer uses.
- Threat detection: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint surface anomalous activity in time to act, not after the fact.
- Continuous monitoring: ABT Guardian tracks the tenant against 160-plus Microsoft Secure Score controls every day and flags drift before it becomes a finding.
Enterprise-grade security at non-profit pricing
Healthcare non-profits, including 501(c)(3) clinics, ministries, community health organizations, and faith-affiliated medical groups, qualify for Microsoft non-profit pricing. Microsoft expanded nonprofit eligibility in October 2025 to be content-neutral, broadening access to organizations that were previously excluded under the legacy attestation framework.
What that means in practice for a 25-seat clinic:
• Microsoft 365 Business Basic: free for the first 300 seats
• Microsoft 365 Business Premium: $5.50 per user per month (a 75 percent discount from commercial)
• Microsoft Azure credit: $2,000 per year for qualified non-profits
• Microsoft HIPAA Business Associate Agreement: included at no additional cost
ABT passes Microsoft's non-profit pricing through without administrative markup. A 25-person clinic can access the same security posture that 750-plus financial institutions use to pass FDIC and FFIEC examinations. The economics are no longer the obstacle they once were.
One time-sensitive note. Microsoft has scheduled a non-profit price increase for July 1, 2026. Organizations that lock pricing before that date hold current rates through 2027. For most healthcare non-profits running the math today, the right move is to quote and provision before the change.
See where your tenant sits today
Our healthcare specialists run a no-obligation review of your current Microsoft 365 configuration against HIPAA Security Rule expectations. The output is your documented Secure Score baseline, the specific controls that need attention, and a 90-day path to bring the gap down.
