HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996. HIPAA data is the information that would be covered under this act. Under this act is Protected Health Information (PHI) and ePHI which is only allowed to be viewed...
Next in line for the Exploring Series is exploring regulated information. That is information that is governed by law and punishable by fines or other sanctions if there are data breaches or compliance issues. This is a measure to get organizations to protect data...
If your organization doesn’t have a set of software standards, ask yourself or your IT Managers the following questions to begin documenting: What software is mandatory (business critical or daily driver)? What software is required for a particular job or...
There’s a trend in bringing in outside personnel to assist with documentation efforts. IT departments know they lack proper documentation and lack the time to concentrate efforts on documenting their systems. So it’s understandable to want to hire...
A few months ago I was casually discussing roles of IT personnel with a law enforcement professional. This discussion was rather short as we were only briefly going over the scope of duties. However, the discussion got me thinking about how much security is integrated...
We kicked off the exploring series by taking a look at policies. We started with recognizing policies as a major type of documentation. We moved into the importance of having policies. Then we took a look at how a policy is created and effected. In order to wrap up...
We’ve reviewed policies as a major type of documentation and why having policies are very important. Now, let’s jump into a brief overview of how a policy is created and effected. The IT policy creation process is as follows: Recognize Plan Research Draft...
In last week’s post, Exploring 3 Different Types of IT Documentation, we briefly touched on policies as one of the three common types of documentation. The importance of IT policies cannot be overstated. Policies are very important as they portray an...
Although there are clear boundaries of document types in theory, what a type of document actually is and should be can vary depending on who you talk to. There are some people who add procedures in with policies and add standards to procedures. These types of people...
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