MB2 Dental is the largest Dental Partnership Organization in the U.S., supporting over 800 dentist-owned practices across 45 states with 1,700+ partner dentists. Founded in 2007 by dentists, the company provides back-office services - HR, accounting, marketing, procurement - while leaving clinical decision-making to the practitioners. That model means the attack surface isn't a single clinic; it's a distributed network of independent practices all tethered to shared infrastructure and centralized business operations.
The threat model here is straightforward: sensitive patient health information (PHI) flowing across hundreds of independently operated sites, each with its own local IT footprint but connected through corporate systems handling billing, credentialing, and marketing data. A 500+ person support team manages the operational backbone, making identity and access management across practice boundaries a non-trivial problem. Healthcare compliance - HIPAA, state-level privacy regs - is the baseline, not the ambition.
Cybersecurity roles at MB2 Dental involve defending a healthcare organization where the perimeter is porous by design. You're not protecting a single enterprise; you're securing a federation of dental practices that retain autonomy while relying on shared services. The work spans endpoint protection across diverse practice environments, network segmentation between partner sites, PHI data governance, vendor risk management for third-party integrations, and incident response across a geographically dispersed footprint spanning 45 states. If you want to see what defending distributed healthcare infrastructure actually looks like at scale, this is the terrain.
