The HITRUST Certification Checklist

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HITRUST is the global leader in cybersecurity assurance that offers a comprehensive, effective, and efficient approach to regulatory compliance and cybersecurity risk management. Earning a HITRUST certification demonstrates your organization's commitment to safeguarding sensitive information and empowers you to earn the trust of your customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
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Vanta, the leading trust management platform, has partnered with HITRUST to be the first automated compliance partner for all three levels of HITRUST Validated Assessments—e1, i1, and r2—and reseller of their audit platform, HITRUST MyCSF. Vanta is the first pre-built solution that includes the controls, documents, and policies necessary to demonstrate your commitment to safeguarding data and protected health information—all in a way that can be validated by HITRUST.
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Together we've created this checklist to help guide your organization on the requirements for HITRUST certification and set your organization up for success. This checklist lays the foundation for what you should expect and informs you on which parties are involved, throughout the validation process.

Access Review Stage	Content / Functionality
Across all stages	Easily create and save a new access review at a point in time View detailed audit evidence of historical access reviews
Setup access review procedures	Define a global access review procedure that stakeholders can follow, ensuring consistency and mitigation of human error in reviews Set your access review frequency (monthly, quarterly, etc.) and working period/deadlines
Consolidate account access data from systems	Integrate systems using dozens of pre-built integrations, or “connectors”. System account and HRIS data is pulled into Vanta. Upcoming integrations include Zoom and Intercom (account access), and Personio (HRIS) Upload access files from non-integrated systems View and select systems in-scope for the review
Review, approve, and deny user access	Select the appropriate systems reviewer and due date Get automatic notifications and reminders to systems reviewer of deadlines Automatic flagging of “risky” employee accounts that have been terminated or switched departments Intuitive interface to see all accounts with access, account accept/deny buttons, and notes section Track progress of individual systems access reviews and see accounts that need to be removed or have access modified Bulk sort, filter, and alter accounts based on account roles and employee title
Assign remediation tasks to system owners	Built-in remediation workflow for reviewers to request access changes and for admin to view and manage requests Optional task tracker integration to create tickets for any access changes and provide visibility to the status of tickets and remediation
Verify changes to access	Focused view of accounts flagged for access changes for easy tracking and management Automated evidence of remediation completion displayed for integrated systems Manual evidence of remediation can be uploaded for non-integrated systems
Report and re-evaluate results	Auditor can log into Vanta to see history of all completed access reviews Internals can see status of reviews in progress and also historical review detail