New HCL BigFix Checklist: HIPAA Compliance on Windows Servers Made Easy
Ensuring patient data privacy and security is a top priority for healthcare organizations. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establishes a comprehensive framework to safeguard this sensitive information. However, maintaining HIPAA compliance can be complex and the consequences of non-compliance can be severe, both financially and reputationally.
Challenges in Maintaining HIPAA Compliance
For many healthcare organizations, proving compliance with HIPAA standards is a rigorous and resource-intensive process. Proving to auditors that you’ve kept compliance with the HIPAA standards is an extensive process, which can have financial consequences if you fail to meet their standards. While HIPAA compliance is a large process and IT operations and security is just one part of it, HCL BigFix has rolled out our first HIPAA compliance checklist for Windows Servers.
Introducing the First HCL BigFix HIPAA Compliance Checklist
To support healthcare organizations, HCL BigFix has launched its first HIPAA compliance checklist for Windows Servers. This checklist is designed to simplify audit preparation by addressing key security requirements outlined in HIPAA regulations.
The checklist covers many recommended security measures that we believe can help make responding to audits much easier but the checklist is not completely sufficient. The HIPAA Checklist for Windows Servers covers the following parts of HIPAA with checks based on different security rules:
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Control ID |
Control Name |
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164.308(a)(5)(ii)(A) |
Security reminders |
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164.308(a)(5)(ii)(B) |
Protection from malicious software |
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164.308(a)(5)(ii)(C) |
Log-in monitoring |
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164.308(a)(5)(ii)(D) |
Password management |
|
164.310(d)(1) |
Device and media controls |
|
164.312(a)(1) |
Access control |
|
164.312(a)(2)(i) |
Unique user identification |
|
164.312(a)(2)(iii) |
Automatic logoff |
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164.312(a)(2)(iv) |
Encryption and decryption |
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164.312(b) |
Audit controls |
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164.312(c)(1) |
Integrity |
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164.312(c)(2) |
Mechanism to authenticate |
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164.312(e)(1) |
Transmission security |
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164.312(e)(2)(i) |
Integrity controls |
|
164.312(e)(2)(ii) |
Encryption |
Going Beyond the Checklist with HCL BigFix
We can cover many aspects of 164.308, 164.310, and 164.312, but there are many aspects that are more policy based that HCL BigFix is unable to cover with a Compliance checklist. Please check out what the checklist is capable of in your existing Compliance deployment. We will also be releasing a HIPAA compliance mapping document that shows ways you can use BigFix beyond the checklist to meet the different applicable requirements.
How to Access the HIPAA Compliance Checklist
The HIPAA Checklist for Windows Servers is available today and covers Windows Server 2022, 2019, and 2016. You can access it via the License Overview dashboard in the BES Support Site of your existing BigFix Compliance deployment.
We encourage you to explore this checklist and provide feedback through our Ideas Portal. Your insights help us improve and expand our offerings to meet your endpoint compliance needs better.
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