Dental offices are busy places. Computers sit everywhere, from the front desk to the operatory, and people don’t have much time to slow down and think about security. That’s why DPC Technology has worked to make protection part of the job, rather than something clients only think about after a problem pops up. Founded in 1995, DPC Technology built their business around supporting dental practices. CEO Clay Archer grew up around dentistry, and that familiarity shaped the company from the start. DPC understands how dental offices operate, what sets them apart from other businesses, and where small problems tend to escalate into costly ones. That’s why Archer can confidently say, “It’s not so much of a fair fight when we go in to compete against somebody.” Challenge | Too many machines and not enough visibility As DPC moved from break-fix work into managed services, they needed a security model that could hold up across a growing client base. That was especially important in dentistry, where one office can have far more devices than people. Archer says a typical practice may have roughly 1.5 to 1.75 times as many endpoints as humans, which means there are many machines to keep track of and many opportunities for something to fall out of view. This also raises the chances of problems on the user side. “People are just clickers,” says Archer. Before better protections were in place, he explains, dentists were getting hit with ransomware “like crazy.” Therefore, DPC needed a way to reduce that exposure without turning security into a separate debate every time a tool changed. Additionally, Microsoft Defender Antivirus was built into DPC’s clients’ environments. Archer notes that while Defender itself is strong, the problem was that, before Huntress, there was no practical way for DPC to manage it across