HITRUST Assessment
Prepare your organization for reliable assurance with MegaplanIT’s HITRUST assessments.
HITRUST Assessment Overview
HITRUST Assessments, initially based on NIST 800-53 and HIPAA assessments, have evolved to encompass many other security frameworks by taking a risk-based management approach to their standards and have been recognized as an industry-leading certification. HITRUST is no longer limited to healthcare providers.
Other industry standards and best practices 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 achieve its motto, “Audit Once, Assess Many.”
- Certified HITRUST r2 assessments are valid for two years pending a single interim-assessment which may be performed by MegaplanIT. HITRUST i1 and e1 are only valid for one year.
- 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.
HOW IT WORKS
HITRUST Assessment Process
HITRUST R2 assessments remain valid for two years with a single interim assessment performed by MegaplanIT if needed. HITRUST i1 and e1 assessments have a one-year validity. HITRUST streamlines assessments to lower risk, reduce costs, and improve efficiency and consistency across 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 MegaplanIT Holdings ensures that all appropriate fields are populated. This includes the overview and scope, the management representation letter, and other client-provided documentation.
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 identical 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 are taken into account for a comprehensive assessment. This approach supports a single, unified assessment across multiple compliance frameworks and regulations, rather than conducting separate assessments.
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.
