HIPAA Security

Download Free HIPAA Policy - IT Security Incident Response Template

Scope
This policy governs the University’s general response, documentation and reporting of incidents affecting computerized and electronic communication information resources, such as theft, intrusion, misuse of data, other activities contrary to the University’s Acceptable Use Policy, denial of service, corruption of software, computer- and electronic communication-based HIPAA violations, and incidents reported to Yale by other institutions and business entities. This policy does not include damage to personal computers owned by students, unless their computers contribute to the Incident defined by the parameters in Definitions, below.

Policy Statement
The Yale University IT Security Incident Response Policy and subordinate procedures define standard methods for identifying, tracking and responding to network and computer-based IT Security Incidents.

Download Free HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Software for Security Rule Assistant. HIPAA Security Rule Assistant provides HIPAA covered entities a program to learn and understand the HIPAA Security Rule. It contains Risk Analysis worksheet, sample policy templates, sample disaster recovery plan, and a sample Incident Report form. It also has areas to tract actions taken and enter policies and procedures developed to meet the requirements of the rule. You can view the entire rule or portions thereof.

Download Free Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Secure Data Connection Software using HIPAA FTP 2.5

HIPAA FTP is designed to keep your data secure through the entire data transfer and storage process, so there is no need to invest in expensive FTP Servers. HIPAA FTP simply works along side your existing Web or FTP server. Using advanced encryption technologies HIPAA FTP scrambles your client data files so that only you can ever view them. Dual-layer 256-bit encryption techniques like those used by CIA and FBI are considered

Basically HIPAA Security Rule require encryption only when individually identifiable health information is sent over a public network, such as the Internet. Encryption will not be required for other network connections, such as dial-up lines and Intranets. However to fully comply with HIPAA Security Requirement you can use Free Autokrypt 8.12.

Autokrypt designed for automation. Automatically encrypt and decrypt files and folders. Encryption methods include password based, secret key, public and private key, OpenPGP password, OpenPG, Email notification of task status. Includes private,public and OpenPGP key generator and a Key Store to manage keys. Common tasks include encrypt, decrypt, copy, zip, unzip, synchronize and file monitors. Includes scheduler to run tasks. This would be very help to become HIPAA Compliant

Protect the key information is one of the requirement of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability). Therefore you can use Folder Lock to comply with the regulations. Basically this application provides two levels of protection:
1. Lock files and folders,
2. Encrypt them using the 256-bit Blowfish algorithm.

For free version the size of file encryption is limited to 25 MB.