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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to ensure that personal information stored, accessed, or processed adheres to a set of guidelines or
“security rules”. These rules outline security measures that should be implemented to adequately secure all electronic protected health information (EPHI). The Secretary of Health and Human Services enforces this law. Non-compliance can lead to civil monetary penalties and public distrust.
The collection, management, and analysis of log data is integral to meeting many HIPAA requirements. The use of
LogRhythm directly meets some requirements and decreases the cost of complying with others. IT environments consist of heterogeneous devices, systems, and applications all reporting log data. Millions of individual log entries can be generated daily if not hourly. The task of organizing this information can be overwhelming in itself. The additional requirements of analyzing and reporting on log data render manual processes or homegrown remedies inadequate and costly.
LogRhythm can help. Log collection, archive, and recovery is fully automated across the entire IT infrastructure. LogRhythm automatically performs the first level of log analysis. Log data is categorized, identified, and normalized for easy analysis and reporting. LogRhythm’s powerful alerting capability automatically identifies the most critical issues and notifies relevant personnel. With the click of a mouse, LogRhythm’s out-of-the box HIPAA reporting packages ensure you meet your reporting requirements.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-66 provides guidance for meeting HIPAA Standards. The remainder of this paper lists the applicable standards LogRhythm can help address. For each standard, an explanation of how LogRhythm supports compliance is provided.
Learn how LogRhythm’s comprehensive log management and analysis solution can help your organization meet or exceed HIPAA regulatory requirements.
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