5 Steps to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Behavioral Health Agencies
A practitioner perspective by Scott Anderson, CTO and GM of Managed Services, Cantata Health Solutions.
The argument
Behavioral health agencies are uniquely exposed to cyberattack because of thin IT staffing and weak controls. They must quantify the cost of inaction, run risk assessments, carry cyber liability insurance, and move beyond basic antivirus to layered defenses.
Why we picked it
The HTC editorial desk curates practitioner perspectives that pass a simple test: would a health system executive, product leader, or investor act differently after reading it? This piece by Scott Anderson earns its place - it comes from the operating trenches of mental health tech, not the conference stage, and it takes a position specific enough to disagree with.
The bigger picture
Behavioral health is digital health's center of gravity: mental health conditions account for 52.1% of all telehealth claim lines (FAIR Health data), the category has topped clinical funding for seven straight years, and states have enacted twenty AI-mental-health laws as regulators catch up (our coverage). That is the terrain this conversation navigates.
Read it alongside our own reporting in Mental Health Tech, where the data behind this debate is covered daily on the HTC Wire.