ISC2 HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP) Training

The broad spectrum of topics included in the HCISPP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) ensure its relevancy across all disciplines in the field of information security. Successful candidates are competent in the following seven domains:

• Healthcare Industry
• Data and Information Governance in Healthcare
• Information Technologies in Healthcare
• Regulatory and Standards Environment
• Privacy and Security in Healthcare
• Risk Management and Risk Assessment
• Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Management

• Domain 1: Healthcare Industry
  • Understand the Healthcare environment
  • Types of Organizations in the Healthcare Sector (e.g. providers, pharma, payers, business associates)
  • Health Information Technology (e.g., computers, medical devices, networks, health information exchanges, Electronic Health Record [EHR], Personal Health Record [PHR]
  • Health Insurance (e.g., claims processing, payment models)
  • Coding (e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD-9/10)
  • Billing, Payment, and Reimbursement
  • Workflow Management
  • Regulatory Environment (e.g., security, privacy, oversight)
  • Public Health Reporting
  • Clinical Research (e.g., process)
  • Healthcare Records Management
  • Understand Third-party relationships
  • Vendors
  • Business Partners
  • Data Sharing
  • Regulators
  • Understand foundational health data management concepts
  • Information Flow and Life Cycle in the Healthcare Environments
  • Health Data Characterization (e.g. classification, taxonomy, analytics)
  • Data Interoperability and Exchange (e.g. HL7, HIE, DICOM)
  • Legal Medical Records
• Domain 2: Regulatory Environment
  • Identify applicable regulations
  • Legal issues that Pertain to Information Security and Privacy for Healthcare Organizations
  • Data Breach Regulations
  • Personally Identifiable Information
  • Information Flow Mapping
  • Jurisdiction Implications
  • Data Subjects
  • Data Owners/Controllers/Custodians/Processors
  • Understand international regulations and controls
  • Treaties (e.g., Safe Harbor)
  • Regulations
  • Industry-Specific Laws
  • Legislative (e.g., EU Data Privacy Directive, HIPAA/HITECH)
  • Compare internal practices against new policies and procedures
  • Policies (information security and privacy)
  • Standards (information security and privacy)
  • Procedures (information security and privacy)
  • Understand compliance frameworks
  • Understand responses for risk-based decision
  • Compensating Controls
  • Control Variance Documentation
  • Residual Risk Tolerance
  • Understand and comply with Code of Conduct/Ethics in HealthCare information
  • Environment
  • Organizational Code of Ethics
  • (ISC)2 Code of Ethics
• Domain 3: Privacy and Security in Healthcare
  • Understand security objectives/attributes
  • Confidentiality
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Understand general security definitions/concepts
  • Access Control
  • Data Encryption
  • Training and Awareness
  • Logging and Monitoring
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Systems Recovery
  • Segregation of Duties
  • Least Privilege (Need to Know)
  • Business Continuity
  • Data Retention and Destruction
  • Understand general privacy principles
  • Consent/Choice
  • Limited Collection/Legitimate Purpose/Purpose Specification
  • Disclosure Limitation/Transfer to Third Parties/Trans-Border Concerns
  • Access Limitation
  • Security
  • Accuracy, Completeness, Quality
  • Management, Designation of Privacy Officer, Supervisor Re-authority, Processing Authorization, Accountability
  • Transparency, Openness
  • Proportionality, Use, and Retention, Use Limitation
  • Access, Individual Participation
  • Notice, Purpose Specification
  • Additional Measures for Breach Notification
  • Understand the relationship between privacy and security
  • Dependency
  • Integration
  • Understand the disparate nature of sensitive data handling implications
  • Personal and Health Information protected by Law
  • Sensitivity mitigation (e.g., de-identification, anonymization)
  • Categories of sensitive data (e.g., mental health)
  • Understand Security and Privacy Terminology Specific to Healthcare
• Domain 4: Information Governance and Risk Management
  • Understand Security and Privacy Governance
  • Information governance
  • Governance structures
  • Understand basic risk management methodology
  • Approach (e.g., qualitative, quantitative)
  • Information Asset Identification
  • Asset Valuation
  • Exposure
  • Likelihood
  • Impact
  • Threats
  • Vulnerability
  • Risk
  • Controls
  • Residual Risk
  • Acceptance
  • Understand information risk management life cycles
  • Participate in risk management activities
  • Remediation Action Plans
  • Risk Treatment (e.g. mitigation/remediation, transfer, acceptance, avoidance)
  • Communications
  • Exception Handling
  • Reporting and Metrics
• Domain 5: Information Risk Assessment
  • Understand risk assessment
  • Definition
  • Intent
  • Lifecycle/Continuous Monitoring
  • Tools/Resources/Techniques
  • Desired Outcomes
  • Role of Internal and External Audit/Assessment
  • Identify control assessment procedures from within organizational risk frameworks
  • Participate in risk assessment consistent with a role in the organization
  • Information Gathering
  • Risk Assessment Estimated Timeline
  • Gap Analysis
  • Corrective Action Plan
  • Mitigation Actions
  • Participate in efforts to remediate gaps
  • Types of Controls
  • Controls Related to Time
• Domain 6: Third-party Risk Management
  • Understand the definition of third parties in the Healthcare context
  • Maintain a list of third-party organizations
  • Health Information Use (e.g., processing, storage, transmission)
  • Third-Party Role/Relationship with the Organization
  • Apply Third-Party Management Standards and Practices for Engaging Third Parties Based upon the relationship with the organization
  • Relationship Management
  • Comprehend Compliance Requirements
  • Determine when the third-party assessment is required
  • Organizational Standards
  • Triggers of Third-Party Assessment
  • Support third-party assessments and audits
  • Information Asset Protection Controls
  • Compliance with Information Asset Protection Controls
  • Communication of Findings
  • Respond to notifications of security/privacy events
  • Internal Process for Incident Response
  • Relationship between Organization and Third-Party Incident Response
  • Breach Recognition, Notification, and Initial Response
  • Support establishment of third-party connectivity
  • Trust Models for Third-Party interconnections
  • Technical Standards (e.g., physical, logical, network connectivity)
  • Connection Agreements
  • Promote awareness of the third-party requirements (internally and externally)
  • Information Flow Mapping and Scope
  • Data sensitivity and classification
  • Privacy Requirements
  • Security Requirements
  • Risks Associated with Third Parties
  • Participate in remediation efforts
  • Risk Management Activities
  • Risk Treatment Identification
  • Corrective Action Plans
  • Compliance Activities Documentation
  • Respond to third-party requests regarding privacy/security event
  • Organizational Breach Notification Rules
  • Organizational Information Dissemination Policies and Standards
  • Risk Assessment Activities
  • Chain of Custody Principles
• Domain 7: Practice questions

The audience for whom this course is intended would be made up of mid-level to senior security and privacy practitioners who have 5 or more years of professional practice, of which at least 2 should be in such a role in a healthcare environment. Ideally, the candidate would already hold the CISSP certification from ISC2, but this is not required for the material to be accessible to the attendee.

The roles normally occupied by such persons would include:

• HealthCare Compliance Officers
• Privacy Officers of HealthCare companies
• Security Managers
• Auditors
• IT Management
• Risk Managers
• Industry consultants in Security and Privacy

There are currently no prerequisites for this course.