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I recommend contacting the ISS X-Force Professional Services team:<br />
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I recommend contacting the ISS X-Force Professional Services team:

http://www.iss.net/solutions/regulatory_compliance/hipaa_programs.html [http://www.iss.net/solutions/regulatory_compliance/hipaa_programs.html]

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We are looking to do our own HIPAA security audit and risk analysis from a technical standpoint, making sure that the IT infrastructure is secure and that there are policies in place to address everything regarding computer/data security and HIPAA. &nbsp;Is there a good place to get a checklist that &nbsp;third party IT auditing firms might use if they are hired to conduct a HIPAA analysis on a network?
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We are looking to do our own HIPAA security audit and risk analysis from a technical standpoint, making sure that the IT infrastructure is secure and that there are policies in place to address everything regarding computer/data security and HIPAA.  Is there a good place to get a checklist that  third party IT auditing firms might use if they are hired to conduct a HIPAA analysis on a network?

HIPAA Compliance - Security Audit Checklist and risk analysis guidelines?

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, broadband telephony, and broadband phone service. The term specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).  Examples of the VoIP protocols are H.323, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.248 (also known as Media Gateway Control (Megaco)), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), Session Description Protocol (SDP), and Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX).

Voice Over IP

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.

Security

A vulnerability is a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance. Vulnerability is the intersection of three elements: a system susceptibility or flaw, attacker access to the flaw, and attacker capability to exploit the flaw. To exploit a vulnerability, an attacker must have at least one applicable tool or technique that can connect to a system weakness, known as the attack surface. Vulnerability management is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. Other vulnerabilities include security risks, security defects and constructs in programming languages that are difficult to use properly.