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GRC where a breach can cost lives, not just dollars

Healthcare holds the most sensitive data there is, and it is ransomware's top target. A single attack now averages millions in cost and measurably raises patient mortality, and HIPAA is getting its first major overhaul in twenty years, making the controls mandatory.

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The landscape

The rules are catching up to the risk

Healthcare security is defined by HIPAA, and HIPAA is changing. The Security Rule is getting its first major overhaul since 2005, with a proposed final rule that makes once-addressable safeguards mandatory: encryption at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability scans, and annual penetration testing. On top of HIPAA sit HITRUST certification, the HITECH breach-notification regime, FDA requirements for connected devices, and PCI DSS wherever payments are involved.

HIPAA Security Rule HITECH HITRUST NIST CSF HICP 405(d) FDA PCI DSS SOC 2
$10.22M
the average cost of a healthcare ransomware attack, in a sector where an incident has been shown to raise in-hospital mortality, making security and patient safety the same job.

The threat is relentless, and it is physical: ransomware against healthcare providers does not just leak records, it has been shown to raise in-hospital mortality during an incident. Regulators are responding in kind, with willful-neglect penalties now climbing past two million dollars per violation. The controls are no longer optional, and neither are the consequences of missing them.

Why it is hard

The data is everywhere, and so is the risk

Protected health information does not stay in one system. It moves across electronic health records, connected medical devices, billing, labs, and a web of business associates, each a place a breach can start and each in scope for HIPAA. Add HITRUST, FDA, and PCI, and a single control, say access management, has to answer to several frameworks at once.

Managed separately, that is duplicated evidence, blind spots between systems, and a program racing to meet new mandatory safeguards before the deadline arrives.

How SimpleRisk fits

One control library, every obligation

SimpleRisk treats healthcare's obligations the way they should be treated: as one connected set of controls, mapped once and proven to an auditor, a certifier, or the OCR.

  • Map once, satisfy many. Through the Secure Controls Framework, one control maps across HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and 250-plus frameworks, so you test once and satisfy many at the same time.
  • Get ahead of the HIPAA overhaul. Map the new mandatory safeguards to the controls you already have, so the deadline is a checklist, not a scramble.
  • Cover every business associate. Track third-party and vendor risk against the same controls, so the weakest link in the chain is not a blind spot.
  • Prove it on demand. Define tests, run audits, and produce exactly the evidence an OCR investigation or HITRUST assessment requires.
Compliance in SimpleRisk → Risk Management → Secure Controls Framework →

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