Course Overview

This course focus on the federal health privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and what it takes to comply with it. This course focuses on privacy and data protection in action, specifically using HIPAA as the framework, and focuses on the threats to data security and the processes that exist for dealing with a data breach. A better understanding of HIPAA security and privacy laws will enable you to protect your organization and the constituents that depend on your organization to safeguard their personal information. The following are the highlights of the course:

• discover the HIPAA security and privacy concepts
• recognize examples of personally identifiable information
• recognize examples of protected health information
• recognize how regulatory compliance often plays a role in crafting organizational security policies
• describe how HIPAA protects sensitive medical information
• describe how GDPR assures data privacy
• recognize different privacy concerns such as private data and jurisdictional concerns
• describe vendor management considerations such as supply chain risk and management strategies
• describe risk management and risk response
• define incident response and the incident response process
• define disaster recovery and the disaster recovery plan
• describe media sanitization and data destruction
• describe strategies of effective vendor risk management