Security and Healthcare IT: Where Public Policy Truly Affects Business Growth

Two of the hottest areas in tech – cybersecurity and healthcare IT – are focal points at our two upcoming events:  Breakaway and Tech Summit, both co-located in Washington, D.C. in August.

Find Best Practices & New Opportunities in IT Security
Advancements in cloud computing, wireless capacities and smart technologies all create greater business potential while raising many security questions. At Breakaway, explore the challenges and opportunities in the IT security field. Find out about security-specific best practices, industry standards and CompTIA member-driven initiatives.

Are you sure you’re doing all you should to protect your customers? At Breakaway, you’ll discover what it takes to become a trusted security advisor. You’ll also explore what comprehensive security looks like—what’s required to become a security star? What type of investment is required?  You’ll begin exploring a process for completing a risk analysis, including how to assess the emerging risks and trends in the IT industry.

For solutions providers with a solid IT security business, see how to build on your success by quickly adapting to industry changes. Explore strategies for emerging trends that include unified threat management, cloud security and the impact of a mobile and social workforce.

Participants in the CompTIA IT Security Channel Training Course at Breakaway will receive CompTIA Education Credits and the CompTIA 10-Week Guide to Accelerating Your IT Security Business.

Service providers also can get the download on the CompTIA Security Trustmark™ with a dedicated workshop, and attend CompTIA’s IT Security Community meeting on August 1 to help direct the association’s efforts to grow this market.

Plus, during the co-located CompTIA Tech Summit on Thursday, August 4, learn how government organizations are tackling cybersecurity threats. Find out how cloud computing and mobility are creating greater IT efficiencies and advancements, but also raising legitimate questions of security.

The CompTIA Tech Summit brings together the public policy community and the IT industry to address how we can work together to create greater efficiencies and more secure systems. Through a set of two concurrent sessions, IT companies will learn about cybersecurity and healthcare IT public policies that impact their business so that they can be in a position to influence policy. Government officials and other organizations will hear what the IT industry thinks about current cybersecurity and healthcare IT policies and how that may impact policy direction and implementation.

Beyond cybersecurity at the CompTIA Tech Summit, learn where the industry is in accomplishing the HITECH Act’s ambitious goal to adopt n technologies and where the electronic medical records transition stands. Understand what hurdles exist and where we can close the gaps.

Maximize Your Market Opportunities in Healthcare IT
The federal government has made significant changes in the regulatory environment relating to healthcare. Some of the changes have created enormous opportunity for IT service providers to help healthcare professionals take the leap into the world of electronic health records. At Breakaway, see how to build your business in the healthcare IT market. Get ready for face-to-face encounters with healthcare professionals and gain healthcare IT consultative selling skills through practice. Learn how to overcome objections and identify the crucial needs of prospective clients. Review CompTIA’s Physician Practice Assessment Tool, work through a case study, and craft a sample quote/proposal that will double as a beginning template for real-life clients. Participants will receive CompTIA Education Credits and the CompTIA 10-Week Guide to Healthcare IT.

Not signed up for Breakaway yet.  Register today and you may qualify to win airfare, a hotel room or cruise – all matters of free stuff.  See you in D.C. this August.