Compliance Glossary

The HITRUST CSF Assurance Program offers organizations a practical way to validate their compliance with the HITRUST CSF. This framework consolidates legal and regional requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR, NIST guidelines, FTC, laws of states similar to Nevada and Texas, and standards like PCI and COBIT.

The two assessment models are self-assessment and validated assessment. Performing a validated assessment and achieving the necessary score and standards is enough for certification.

This is not exactly a badge certification – in the truest sense, it is a validation of your security controls.

Typically, a CSF third-party assessor arranges on-site testing, which saves time and money compared to traditional audits. Further, it has tangible risk management supervision and a plausible evaluation approach systematically.

Using the Program, you can self-evaluate or evaluate the request of some other entity. It saves you a lot of time because this single assessment can provide information on how you are doing in compliance with most of the requirements provided within the HITRUST CSF. 

Also, it can potentially eliminate the need to implement custom processes and requirements for validating third-party compliance, thus making things easier and less cumbersome. In short, the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program simplifies your compliance efforts.