HITRUST Assessment
Prepare your organization for ‘Rely-able’ Assurances with MegaplanIT’s HITRUST assessments
HITRUST Assessment Overview
HITRUST Assessments, initially based off of NIST 800-53 and HIPAA assessments, have grown to encompass many other security frameworks by taking a risk-based management approach to its standards and has been recognized as an industry-leading certification. HITRUST is not just for healthcare providers anymore.
Other industry standards and practice principles benefit from this multifaceted approach by collecting relevant data for the HITRUST assessment while simultaneously gathering the same information, interviews, and evidence. This allows HITRUST to attain its motto “Audit Once, Assess Many”.
- Certified HITRUST assessments are valid for two years pending a single interim-assessment which may be performed by MegaplanIT.
- HITRUST assessments address increasing risks, inefficiencies, increasing costs, and consistency of reporting by culminating all relevant assessments to a single location which may be leveraged for future certifications.
Why Consider HITRUST
Assessments
- As of version 9.2, HITRUST assessments encompass all industries and are no longer only for healthcare organizations.
- Compliance and risk considerations for many local, federal, and international data standards are included within the assessment.
- Deficiencies addressed as CAPs (Corrective Action Plans) will provide a roadmap to improved security posture and continuous improvement.
- Harmonizes existing controls and requirements from standards, regulations, business and third-party requirements.
- Industry recognized certification used by companies to identify strong risk management.
- Mitigates cost, risk, inefficiency, and inconsistency in reporting of security controls.
HOW IT WORKS
HITRUST Assessment Process
Certified HITRUST assessments are valid for two years pending a single interim-assessment which may be performed by MegaplanIT. HITRUST assessments address increasing risks, inefficiencies, increasing costs, and consistency of reporting by culminating all relevant assessments to a single location which may be leveraged for future certifications.
Internal Project Scoping
Selection of HITRUST Model
Selection of the Assessment Report Type
It is the choice of your company to decide the scope and severity of the HITRUST CSF. These types include:
Security (75 Requirement Statements)
Security + Privacy (75 Requirement Statements + 21 Privacy Statements)
Comprehensive Security (135 Requirement Statements)
Comprehensive Security + Privacy (135 Requirement Statements + 21 Privacy Statements)
MegaplanIT Holdings LLC. will be able to assist and guide you through this process.
Submission to MegaplanIT Holdings
Submission to HITRUST
Assignment of rank to Requirement statements
HITRUST CSF is a risk-based assessment which over requirement statements have five main control area maturity scores, these will be assigned via the assessed entity:
Policy: Overall intention and direction as formerly expressed by management.
Procedure: Detailed steps to achieve the goals of policy.
Implementation: Deployment as applicable to the environment. Measured: How the control is monitored for effectiveness, metrics generated by the organization.
Managed: How the control is updated and changed as needed by the measured effectiveness.
Submission of artifacts to the Assessor
Submission to HITRUST
Receiving The Report
Internal Project Scoping
KEY BENEFITS
The Value of HITRUST Compliance with MegaplanIT
Clear and concise reporting and scoping ensures that all standards for your organization are organized and easy to reach.
Realize cost savings with a single audit point and auditor to prevent identic team meetings and/or resource drains. HITRUST CSF audits feature scalability from large corporations to smaller single office businesses as the risk based assessments allows for integrated, and harmonized requests derived from multiple authoritative sources.
The HITRUST reporting certification is updated as needed: As standards and regulations change, HITRUST adjusts its requirements to maintain the most up to date specifications for local, federal, and third-party regulations. HITRUST also updates based on industry trends and breach reports to give the most accurate and applicable assessments.
HITRUST as a Risk Management Framework (RMF) allows your organization to cultivate an information security governance program based on the risks your company is taking as opposed to a strict set of standards to be followed. Prescriptive controls are followed as needs from industry to industry vary and ensures that safeguards are “reasonable and appropriate”: (General, Organization, Geographical, System, and Regulatory)
Regulatory risk factors from other frameworks taken into account for a comprehensive assessment. Support one single assessment vs. multiple assessments, compliance frameworks, and regulations.
Make Our Team, Your Team!
Our innovative IT security and compliance solutions are designed to deliver customized, cost-effective service on time—because your priorities are our priorities. With a highly qualified team of qualified team of PCI Assessors, and Information Security Consultants here at MegaplanIT, we will assess your unique company and business environment and design a path to security that will fit all of your needs.
