Our experts have in-depth knowledge of the HIPAA Security Rule and regulatory expectations from their prior roles with some of the largest, most prominent healthcare systems and hospital associations in the nation. They also bring years of frontline experience with real-world corporate, data breach and investigative matters. They know your challenges well.
This unique vantage point ensures we assess strengths and risks in the context of your operational priorities, risk tolerances and threat landscape. We have the knowledge and resources to review your organization’s information security program end-to-end, from policies and procedures to human factor influences to technical controls.
In this way, we deliver a highly nuanced HIPAA risk analysis that is appropriate for your specific organization. We also provide pragmatic insights for proactive or remedial strategies that can strengthen your cyber resiliency.
In their Summary of the HIPAA Security Rule, government regulators were clear and direct when it comes to risk assessments (emphasis ours):
“Risk analysis should be an ongoing process, in which a covered entity:
With security risk bound up in virtually every aspect of patient care and modern healthcare operations, Kroll’s HIPAA security risk assessments go broad and deep. Our methodology continually incorporates the most current learnings on cyber risk trends and threats, so you can be more confident in the accuracy and thoroughness of the risk profile we develop for your organization.
Kroll follows a rigorous, proven process in conducting your HIPAA Risk Assessment. Throughout the analysis, we will interview key technical and business stakeholders to develop a more complete picture of your organization’s cyber security preparedness and vulnerabilities:
Kroll HIPAA risk assessment helps regional healthcare system enhance cyber resiliency enterprise-wide
When a large regional healthcare system asked Kroll to conduct a HIPAA risk assessment, their goals went beyond regulatory compliance. They also wanted in-depth, pragmatic guidance around security implementations that would help mature the organization’s overall cyber resiliency. This included a focus on identifying gaps in the organization’s cyber risk management program to assess the capability to identify and respond to modern cyber threats.
Kroll utilized the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework to evaluate the maturity of the organization’s information security program. Our risk analysis methodology included developing a customized assessment strategy to identify the cyber security risks unique to the organization.
*As the DHHS Office for Civil Rights noted in its HIPAA Security Rule Crosswalk to NIST Cybersecurity Framework, “Although all Security Rule administrative, physical, and technical safeguards map to at least one of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Subcategories, other Security Rule standards, such as specific requirements for documentation and organization, do not.” Kroll has accounted for these control gaps in other areas of our assessment.
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