Product:
BigFix Compliance
Title:
New HIPAA Checklist for Windows Workstation
Security Benchmark:
HIPAA Checklist for Windows Workstation
Published Sites:
HIPAA Checklist for Windows Workstation, site version 1
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)
Overview:
The BigFix Compliance team is excited to introduce the NEW HIPAA Checklist for Windows Workstation, which is designed to help organizations meet the security and compliance requirements outlined in the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Why is this important?
The HIPAA compliance is mandatory for organizations that are handling Protected Health Information (PHI), including hospitals, healthcare providers, insurers, and associated businesses. A single security misconfiguration on a workstation can lead to data breaches, regulatory penalties, and operational risks. Ensuring that Windows 10 and Windows 11 endpoints adhere to HIPAA security guidelines is critical for protecting patient data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
What does this Checklist include?
The New HIPAA Checklist for Workstation encompasses a total of 486 checks, aligned with 10 different HIPAA controls. Remarkably, 99% of these checks incorporate remediation strategies, ensuring comprehensive compliance measures.
This checklist addresses essential HIPAA security mandates, enabling organizations to evaluate endpoints according to the following controls:
- Protection from malicious software
- Password Management
- Device and media controls
- Access Control
- Integrity
- Automatic logoff
- Audit Controls
- Mechanism to authenticate electronic protected health information
- Transmission Security
- Encryption
The Checklist includes both analysis and remediation checks. Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable customization for compliance evaluation.
Note: Parameterization and remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.
Actions to take:
- Use the License Overview dashboard from the BES Support site to enable and gather the site.
Note: You must be entitled to the new content and are using BigFix version 10 or later.
- Create a custom site for the HIPAA Checklist for Windows Workstation site using Create Custom Checklist under SCM Reporting in Wizards.
More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:
We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!
– The BigFix Compliance team