Every dispensary keeps a press that opens for one reason and refuses every other. Endpoints can run on the same principle. Approved software executes; unrecognised software gets no hearing at all. Fitted to a reception machine opening the same few clinical applications daily, nothing else on this site pays back as well.
The opening stretch is a learning phase. Rather than begin from a list drawn up by somebody at a vendor who has never stood in a dental practice, the agent watches what your staff genuinely run and assembles the permitted set out of that. Nothing gets blocked during it. After it, an unfamiliar file needs a decision made about it.
A Fortify 24x7 engineer takes those decisions, and in practice they come back within minutes. None of that removes a step which was not there a week ago, and we would rather write it down than let a busy clinic explain it. Somewhere that installs new tooling constantly will feel it. Somewhere running the same few clinical applications day after day will barely notice, and those machines are exactly where the money comes back.
Begin wherever a loss would hurt most: whichever machine reaches the practice management database, whichever one moves money to and from the payers, and the reception computer that spends its day opening whatever the post brings. A tight policy usually goes on those three, and something easier everywhere else.
The ringfencing half gets talked about by nobody. Once a tool is permitted, the fence goes round it: which processes may be started, which files opened, which addresses reached. That fence is the reason a wholly legitimate utility does not become a handy way of walking records out of the building.
Billing supplies these figures directly. Add something and it stays on your script, untouched, for the rest of the page.
Detection wagers that the bad thing gets recognised quickly enough. Allowlisting places a different wager: execution belongs only to software somebody approved, so a file nobody knows never gets to plead its case. Put it on a machine running the same six clinical applications every day and no control on this site does more.
| Made up for | Machines with a settled application list: reception, billing, imaging review |
|---|---|
| Acts on | Execution itself. Approved software runs and nothing else does |
| Shelf life | The permitted set is kept current the whole time this runs |
| Dispensed by | ThreatLocker, with an approval desk kept staffed by Fortify 24x7 |
| Counter-checked | The asker and the approver are both entered in the log |
What may execute is settled here. What a human being decides to approve is not, and the gap between those two is worth grasping before a card comes out.
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