HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(a)(7)(i): Contingency Plan (Standard)
Establish policies for responding to emergencies that damage ePHI systems. NIST recommends contingency planning per SP 800-34 with business impact analysis driving recovery priorities.
Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk·Verified against the published standard ·Control text last updated
What else in your programme already covers this
This control maps to 58 controls across 24 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
NIST-CSF-GV.OC-04 Critical objectives, capabilities, and services that external stakeholders depend on or expect from the organization are understood and communicated
NIST-CSF-ID.IM-04 Incident response plans and other cybersecurity plans that affect operations are established, communicated, maintained, and improved
NIST-CSF-PR.DS-11 Backups of data are created, protected, maintained, and tested
NIST-CSF-RC.RP-01 The recovery portion of the incident response plan is executed once initiated from the incident response process
You are reading one control. How much of HIPAA Security Rule have you already done?
HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(a)(7)(i) is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of HIPAA Security Rule your existing evidence covers. Hold ISO 27001:2022 and 53 of 67 HIPAA Security Rule controls already carry evidence.
Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 64 were rejected on the ISO 27001:2022 pair alone.