HIPAA is a US federal law that requires covered entities and business associates to protect health information. HITRUST is a private organisation whose framework, the HITRUST CSF, turns HIPAA and other standards into prescriptive, testable controls with an independent certification. HIPAA tells you what to achieve. HITRUST shows how, and proves it. What is HIPAA? …
SOC 2 is a flexible attestation report issued by a CPA firm against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria. HITRUST is a prescriptive, scored certification issued by HITRUST against the HITRUST CSF. Choose SOC 2 for broad SaaS and enterprise buyers. Choose HITRUST when selling to US payers, health systems or anyone handling large PHI volumes….
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No. HITRUST certification is not mandatory under any US federal law, including HIPAA. It becomes mandatory in practice when a customer, typically a payer, health system or large health tech platform, writes it into a contract, business associate agreement or vendor risk programme. For many healthcare vendors, that commercial requirement is as binding as a…
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HITRUST certification cost has four parts: HITRUST’s own fees, external assessor fees, remediation spend and internal effort. Publicly quoted all-in first-year ranges run from tens of thousands of US dollars for an e1 to well into six figures for an r2. Scope, assessment type and control maturity drive the number far more than company size. …
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HITRUST certification is worth it when at least one of three conditions is true: a customer or prospect contractually requires it, more than roughly a quarter of your pipeline is US healthcare enterprise, or you hold large volumes of PHI. If none apply, a SOC 2 Type 2 report or a HITRUST e1 is usually…
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HITRUST originally stood for the Health Information Trust Alliance. Today the organisation simply uses the name HITRUST. It is a private standards body, founded in 2007, that publishes the HITRUST CSF, a certifiable security and privacy framework that consolidates HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and other standards into one set of controls that an…
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Every enterprise network has a command layer. It is the tier that lets your administrators push configurations, enforce policies, and respond to incidents in real time. Now imagine that layer going completely silent because an unauthenticated attacker on the open internet sent it too many connection requests. That is not a hypothetical. That is CVE-2026-20188….
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The most dangerous breach your organisation will face this year will not arrive through an unpatched server. It will arrive through a Microsoft Teams notification, dressed as an IT support request, carrying the implicit authority of your own enterprise infrastructure. In early 2026, the Iranian state-sponsored group MuddyWater, also tracked as Mango Sandstorm and Seedworm,…
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In the modern corporate world, the line between performance monitoring and privacy is often thin. We have grown accustomed to workforce analytics tools that track our engagement and output. However, a startling new report from Malwarebytes reveals a cynical twist in this narrative. Hackers are now using the very tools your organization might use for…
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The digital landscape in 2026 continues to see the rise of aggressive extortion groups targeting the world’s most recognizable brands. Recently, the threat actor known as CoinbaseCartel has publicly claimed a successful breach of Dolby Laboratories, the American audio technology behemoth. While the full extent of the data exfiltration is still being verified, the claim…
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