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Tim Montgomery is one of three principal owners of TIMIT in Glens Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Christine Graf<\/p>\n

In the early days of the pandemic when non-essential businesses were forced to close, companies relied on information technology professionals to help keep their businesses running.<\/p>\n

At Glens Falls-based TIMIT Solutions, software professionals helped customers by writing software that allowed them to work remotely. TIMIT works with small to medium-sized companies around the globe to develop software applications that improve efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people are working from home, they are having to do things that normally they might have done in the office using old fashioned paper and pen. We help to digitize some of those things on the software end of it,\u201d said Tim Montgomery, one of TIMIT\u2019s three principal owners.<\/p>\n

When the pandemic shut down non-essential businesses, many companies reached out to TIMIT to write COVID screening software which in some cases needed to be HIPPA compliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some local customers that deal with the medical and healthcare industry, and they need a HIPPA-compliant screening setup where they would have fully encrypted end-to-end data and people could do that on their cell phones from wherever before they were to come into the office or meet with somebody outside of the office. We did that for customers in multiple states.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within these application, all personal health information was fully encrypted to ensure patient privacy.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\u201cThe application was making sure end-to-end that nothing was being shared in an external email or something like that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had to provide a completely locked down HIPPA-compliant environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The demand for this type of software went well beyond the medical industry. Customers in other industries also reached out to TIMIT for help during the pandemic when in-person contact was limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis pandemic brought us from writing cool mobile apps and doing web sites and other kinds of custom apps to helping customers with their move into the digital arena. That literally that meant replacing paper and pencil,\u201d he said. \u201cWe hear things from clients saying, \u2018This is so easy. Why haven\u2019t we always done it this way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As an example, Montgomery referenced the Adirondack YMCA in Glens Falls. Instead of having someone at the door screening members, they used software developed by TIMIT that allowed them to prescreen members, employees, and vendors before they walked through the door. People were required to answer screening questions on a digital device before arriving\u00a0 <\/span>and only those who passed the screening were allowed inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Y had a database that was completely encrypted where they could see all of the rejections and all of the accepted,\u201d said\u00a0 <\/span>Montgomery.<\/p>\n

TIMIT also helped an unidentified customer in Ballston Spa that is in the service industry and was deemed an essential business. The business remained open during the pandemic shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey go into schools and businesses and do testing of their heating and cooling and water systems. They had to keep working but didn\u2019t want people coming into the office every day,\u201d said Montgomery. \u201cSo we developed a field service app\u2014a custom mobile app\u2014so that technicians didn\u2019t have to come into the office. They could go to straight from their homes to a client\u2019s site and complete their services and upload everything to a central database.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of the challenges that were introduced by the pandemic, Montgomery said companies have become much more receptive to developing digital apps.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what it\u2019s done is opened their eyes to what the opportunities are to reduce costs by simplifying the processes, by taking labor out of the processes, and by automating simple tasks that people are bored doing anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montgomery said it is essential that all data is encrypted end-to-end in order to ensure that it can\u2019t be shared outside of a database. It is also critical that employees are trained on how to avoid falling victim to cybersecurity threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t in cybersecurity, but education and training is probably the most important piece of it. Don\u2019t click on that link. Don\u2019t believe everything you get. Educate and train your people on how to respond to these types of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

TIMIT also recommends using two factor authentication or one-time passwords. They also architect their applications in a way that ensures that data is separate from the applications which makes them more secure.<\/p>\n

\u201cPasswords are not secure,\u201d he said. \u201cIf enough time and effort is put into it, almost any password can be figured out. You really need to have that second level of protection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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