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Cybersecurity Built for Rural Hospitals

Most security platforms assume a dedicated team, an enterprise budget, and analysts who read alert data all day. Rural hospitals don't operate that way — so we built one that doesn't need them.

One Person. Every Hat. No Security Team.

At a typical rural hospital, the IT director is also the network admin, the help desk, and sometimes the facilities coordinator. There is no security analyst. There is no SOC.

Compliance requires investment in security tools — but the firewalls, antivirus, and M365 Defender these organizations buy generate alerts that assume a trained specialist is reading them. For most rural hospitals, that person does not exist.

Meanwhile, the threats are the same ones hitting large health systems:

Business email compromise Credential theft Account takeover
A large system has a team watching for it. A rural hospital doesn't. That is the gap FoundationDx fills.

Typical rural hospital IT staffing

IT Director1 person
Network Administratorsame person
Help Desksame person
Facilities Coordinatorsometimes
Security Analystnone
Security Operations Centernone

Connected in Days. Readable by Anyone.

FoundationDx connects to Microsoft 365 through standard API permissions — nothing to install, nothing to maintain on your side.

01
🔌

Connect

Grant standard Microsoft 365 API permissions. That's the entire setup.

02
📈

Baseline

Over 60 days, every user gets a behavioral baseline — how, when, and where they sign in, which devices they use, who they email, and how.

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Detect & Fuse

Drift from baseline is flagged. When login and email behavior shift on the same user within 48 hours, both signals fuse into one high-confidence finding.

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Daily Action Plan

A prioritized plan arrives by email every day in plain language: what matters most, why, and what to do about it.

No hardware No software to install No endpoint agents No customer-side infrastructure No portal login No security background needed

If your organization has M365, FoundationDx can be deployed in days.

What Makes This Different for Rural Hospitals

Designed around the staff, budgets, and timelines rural hospitals actually have.

Standalone

Works as a first layer of security on its own — no additional tools required. For hospitals that also run endpoint detection or MDR, it complements them by covering the behavioral signals they don't.

No Expertise Required

No custom rules. No complex configuration. No tuning. If you can read an email, you can use the platform.

Affordable

A predictable, flat monthly subscription based on user count. Built for organizations with 50 to 500 users — not 5,000.

Lightweight

API permissions and email delivery. No IT project. No deployment timeline. No change management.

Privacy-First

No PHI accessed, stored, or transmitted. Authentication and behavioral metadata only — no email body content, no patient data, no clinical data.

Running Daily on Real Rural Healthcare Data

FoundationDx is deployed at a multi-hospital healthcare system with four rural-based facilities, running every day on production data alongside the organization's existing security stack.

4
Rural-based facilities
3.5M
Events processed
~10K
Users monitored
Daily
On live production data

Fund It With a Grant, Not Your Operating Budget

The Rural Health Transformation Program — a five-year federal initiative — lists cybersecurity enhancements as an explicitly eligible use of funds.

$50B
Five-year federal initiative
~$200M
Average first-year award per state
Eligible
Cybersecurity enhancements explicitly listed
2031
Rolling competitive applications through

FoundationDx is exactly the kind of affordable, lightweight cybersecurity platform these grants are designed to fund. A rural hospital can include FoundationDx in a grant application for cybersecurity enhancement rather than funding it from its operating budget.

We Can Help With the Application

We provide everything needed for the cybersecurity section of your funding application:

  • Technical scope
  • Implementation plan
  • Cost breakdown
  • Measurable outcomes
Your hospitalHandles the broader application.
FoundationDxHandles the part we know best.

Start With a No-Cost Proof of Value

See what the platform finds in your own data before making any commitment.

1

You Provide API Permissions

Standard Microsoft 365 permissions — no installs, no hardware.

2

We Connect & Build Baselines

Behavioral baselines are built for every user in your environment.

3

You See the Findings

Prioritized, plain-language findings from your own data.

No contract. No risk. Just your data, interpreted.

JR DeFeo
Co-Founder, FoundationDx

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