Section 1: Written Paper
Noncompliance with HIPAA regulations can result in significant fines and negative publicity. To help ensure that your organization remains in compliance with HIPAA regulations.
1) Create an overview of the HIPAA security and privacy rules.
2) Analyze the major types of incidents and breaches that occur based on the cases reported.
3) Analyze the technical controls and the nontechnical controls that are needed to mitigate the identified risks and vulnerabilities.
4) Analyze and describe the network architecture that is needed within an organization, including a medium-sized hospital, in order to comply with HIPAA regulations.
5) Analyze how a hospital is similar to and different from other organizations in regard to HIPAA compliance.
6) List the IT audit steps that must be included in the organization’s overall IT audit plan to ensure compliance with HIPAA rules and regulations.
Part 2
Network Architecture
1) Create a network architecture diagram (using Visio or an open-source equivalent to Visio for creating diagrams), based on the description of the network architecture that you defined above for the organization to comply with HIPAA regulations.
2) Include in the diagram the switches, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and any other devices needed for a compliant network architecture.
