Catapult Consultants and Blue Ridge Networks Team to Create Health IT Cybersecurity “Dream Team”
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Catapult Consultants, LLC, a leading healthcare solutions firm, today announced that it has reached a marketing agreement with Blue Ridge Networks, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions. Catapult will be demonstrating Blue Ridge’s proven solutions for health IT customers next week at the HIMSS Conference (Booth #5579) in Orlando (Feb. 24, 2014 – Feb. 27, 2014).
Catapult Consultants will expand its healthcare capabilities to include Blue Ridge’s mobile and zero-day malware solutions, which protect sensitive patient information by allowing physicians, hospitals and clinical consultants to securely access medical records over hospital networks and through the cloud. Blue Ridge’s isolation and containment technologies provide secure connectivity with advanced protection to prevent identity theft, loss of sensitive data, phishing, and similar threats associated with virtual networking and browser-based medical operations…
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