Conducting a risk analysis is one of the initial steps healthcare entities must complete for HIPAA Security Rule compliance. The Security Rule was published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and establishes national standards for protecting electronic protected health information (ePHI).
The HITRUST Alliance has revolutionized cybersecurity and compliance practices with its comprehensive, streamlined CSF framework. Businesses across industries have implemented HITRUST—or are in the process of doing so—for maximum security at minimal costs.
Cryptography is essential to data security and provides the best method to ensure that information will remain uncompromised, even if stolen or inappropriately accessed. However, managing cryptographic keys will become increasingly challenging as companies compile more sensitive information.
Data centers store and share companies’ information—this includes any sensitive data that could cause damage to the company if they were breached. As such, it’s a critical area companies must prioritize when developing and deploying their cybersecurity infrastructures.
The fields of business continuity and disaster recovery, sometimes combined into a unified business continuity & disaster recovery program, represent different but complementary parts of incident response management. These strategies comprise two essential cybersecurity remediation perspectives following a data breach.
A company’s endpoints comprise all the computing devices remotely connected to its networks. These devices are used by personnel to access the systems, applications, files, and other resources necessary for completing responsibilities.
The HITRUST CSF is a comprehensive cybersecurity framework that compiles various regulations’ controls into a single, streamlined compliance structure. The HITRUST Alliance updates the CSF frequently to accommodate trends in cybersecurity, such as emerging risks, community needs, and changes to other regulatory frameworks.
The HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) Assurance Program is a framework for compliance assessment and risk management that is the most widely adopted in the healthcare industry.
Companies looking to expand their horizons in an increasingly mobile business environment are likely to face shifting, overlapping, and even conflicting compliance needs. The goal of “mapping frameworks” (or optimizing practices to satisfy multiple frameworks’ controls) minimizes inefficiencies while meeting all security requirements.
Companies looking to expand their horizons in an increasingly mobile business environment are likely to face shifting, overlapping, and even conflicting compliance needs. The goal of “mapping frameworks” (or optimizing practices to satisfy multiple frameworks’ controls) minimizes inefficiencies while meeting all security requirements.