Building a HIPAA-Compliant Cybersecurity Program

Goes beyond just HIPAA compliancefocuses on a specific requirement within the Administrative Safeguards of the HIPAA Security, showing readers how to build a cybersecurity program to achieve compliance while attempting to protect health information Shows readers how to examine the current risk analysis and, if necessary, take immediate actions to improve the process

Creates a life cycle of continuous improvement and uses more technical and focused assessments to feed the risk assessment and analysis process

Autorentext

Eric C. Thompson is an accomplished governance, risk, and compliance professional. In his GRC role as the Director of Compliance at Blue Health Intelligence (BHI), Eric leads efforts to increase cyber security maturity in several domains including, governance, policy and controls, risk management, cyber security strategy and business alignment. He established the risk management function which includes assessment, analysis, and treatment of risk, threat, and vulnerability management strategy and creating due diligence assessment requirements related to third-party risk. Eric also evaluates cyber security technology capabilities and makes recommendations for enhancing current solutions and investing in new implementations that meet risk reduction requirements.

Prior to BHI, Eric spent seven years at Ernst & Young (EY) in the Advisory practice where he specialized in helping healthcare organizations (providers, payers, and business associates) solve problems related to information security, risk management, and compliance. Eric led the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF), cybersecurity program management, and third-party risk management assessments.

Eric is also a proud member of the SANS Mentor team.

Inhalt
Part I: Why Risk Assessment and Analysis.- Chapter 1: Not If, But When.- Chapter 2: Meeting Regulator Expectations.- Chapter 3: Selecting Security Measures.- Part II: Assessing and Analyzing Risk.- Chapter 4: Inventory Your ePHI.- Chapter 5: Who Wants Health Information.- Chapter 6: Weaknesses Waiting to Be Exploited.- Chapter 7: Is It Really This Bad?.- Chapter 8: Increasing Program Maturity.- Chapter 9: Targeted Non-technical Testing.- Chapter 10: Targeted Technical Testing.- Part III: Applying the Results to Everyday Needs.- Chapter 11: Refreshing the Risk Register.- Chapter 12: The Cybersecurity Roadmap.- Part IV: Continuous Improvement.- Chapter 13: Investing for Risk Reduction.- Chapter 14: Third Party-Risk: Beyond the BAA.- Chapter 15: Social Media, BYOD, IOT and Portability.- Chapter 16: Risk Treatment and Management.- Chapter 17: Customizing the Risk Analysis.- Chapter 18: Think Offensively.- Appendix A. NIST CSF Internal Controls.- Appendix B. NIST CSF to HIPAA Crosswalk.- Appendix C: Risk Analysis Templates.-