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The threat landscape facing health care organizations and their managed service providers (MSPs) in 2026 is constantly becoming more dangerous. Businesses and service providers in the field are increasingly popular targets for attackers. The attack perimeter for health care organizations is rapidly expanding beyond internal threats to involve third parties, especially MSPs.

Android is a very popular and prolific operating system on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Most of the time, there is no practical reason to install Android on a physical computer, but there may be some cases when you need to run Android on a virtual machine (VM), for example, when developing applications for Android and testing them. Fortunately, you can install Android on VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ESXi, and VirtualBox.

The new 2.4.0 release delivers complete protection for your entire Quality Assurance (QA) workloads in Azure DevOps. Teams on platforms hosted locally in Windows can now secure them with the AES encryption compliant with the federal, enterprise-grade FIPS standards. This release also packs other notable upgrades, including seamless Active Directory integration, a smarter repository exclusion mechanism, and full German language support. Dive into the full breakdown below.

For MSPs serving health care clients, HIPAA compliance is a line item with consequences. Get it wrong and the downside is a six- or seven-figure Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settlement, a corrective action plan and a client base that loses confidence overnight. Get it right and health care becomes one of the highest-margin verticals in the channel.

Backups are often the last line of defense when ransomware reaches business-critical systems. But modern ransomware attacks do not target production data alone. Attackers may also search for backup repositories, compromise backup administrator accounts, change retention policies or delete recovery points before encrypting the live environment. When clean backup copies are no longer available, recovery becomes slower, more expensive and less predictable.

Heath care organizations are under attack. That's not news. But how serious is the threat? Consider these numbers from the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025: Health care organizations need help, and managed service providers (MSPs) can drive revenue and grow their businesses by providing it. But working in health care isn't like working in other industries.