Rural healthcare IT

You've been placed in charge of disaster recovery planning at your rural health care facility. Maybe someone told you to "create our DRP." Maybe it landed on your desk because you're the IT person. Or maybe you drew the short straw at the last staff meeting.

Sounds easy, right?

Here's what nobody told you: You've just been handed a can of worms that touches every IT system, every compliance requirement, and every department in your organization.

Executive Summary

Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday update (KB5063878) presents healthcare organizations with a challenging risk assessment scenario. While the update addresses 107 critical security vulnerabilities—including an actively exploited zero-day—reports have emerged of storage drive failures under specific conditions.