[author: Nicholas Parker]
HITRUST recently announced a formal partnership with both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Essentially, HITRUST has collaborated with both cloud hosting service providers to outline and define a responsibility matrix called the HITRUST Shared Responsibility Matrix™ (SRM). This represents a step forward in enhancing the HITRUST inheritance program that is native to their MyCSF portal, and the overall efficiency of performing HITRUST CSF Validated Assessment with clear inheritance guidelines.
What is the HITRUST MyCSF Inheritance Program?
The HITRUST MyCSF Inheritance Program is a functionality native to the MyCSF portal that allows subscribers to inherit control maturity of a parent organization or third-party who is responsible for that control within the subscriber’s environment. Control inheritance decreases the work effort for both the subscriber and assessors during HITRUST CSF assessments and allows the subscriber to have a clearer picture of controls implemented by third-parties within their environment.