HIPAA Security Rule
Administrative

HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(b)(3): Written Contract or Other Arrangement

Document the satisfactory assurances required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section through a written contract or other arrangement with the business associate that meets the applicable requirements of 164.314(a).

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 41 controls across 20 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.RR-02 Roles, responsibilities, and authorities related to cybersecurity risk management are established, communicated, understood, and enforced
  • NIST-CSF-GV.SC-04 Suppliers are known and prioritized by criticality
  • NIST-CSF-GV.SC-05 Requirements to address cybersecurity risks in supply chains are established, prioritized, and integrated into contracts and other types of agreements with suppliers and other relevant third parties
  • NIST-CSF-GV.SC-07 The risks posed by a supplier, their products and services, and other third parties are understood, recorded, prioritized, assessed, responded to, and monitored over the course of the relationship
  • NIST-CSF-ID.AM-04 Inventories of services provided by suppliers are maintained
  • NIST-CSF-ID.IM-04 Incident response plans and other cybersecurity plans that affect operations are established, communicated, maintained, and improved
  • NIST-CSF-ID.RA-10 Critical suppliers are assessed prior to acquisition

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 4 controls

  • NIST800-AC-20 Use of external systems
  • NIST800-PS-6 Access agreements
  • NIST800-SA-4 Acquisition process
  • NIST800-SR-7 Supply Chain Operations Security. Employ the following Operations Security (OPSEC) controls to protect supply chain-related information for the system, system component, or system service: [organization-defined]

CIS Controls v8 · 3 controls

  • CIS-15.1 Establish and Maintain an Inventory of Service Providers
  • CIS-15.2 Establish and Maintain a Service Provider Management Policy
  • CIS-15.4 Ensure Service Provider Contracts Include Security Requirements

SOC 2 · 3 controls

  • SOC2-CC9.2 Risk mitigation activities include assessment of vendor and business partner controls
  • SOC2-P6.4 Obtains privacy commitments from vendors and other third parties who have access to personal information to meet the entity's objectives related to privacy. The entity assesses those parties' compliance on a periodic and as-needed
  • SOC2-P6.5 Obtains commitments from vendors and other third parties with access to personal information to notify the entity in the event of actual or suspected unauthorized disclosures of personal information. Such notifications are reported to

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • C5-SSO-01 Policies and instructions for controlling and monitoring third parties
  • C5-SSO-04 Monitoring of compliance with requirements

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SR-6 Supplier Assessments and Reviews (SR-6)

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SR-6 Supplier Assessments and Reviews (SR-6)

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.20 Addressing information security within supplier agreements
  • 6.6 Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 2 controls

  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SR-6 Supplier Assessments and Reviews (SR-6)
  • SA-4 Acquisition Process
  • SR-6 Supplier Assessments and Reviews (SR-6)
  • CPS230-50 Formal Agreement Content for Material Arrangements

APRA CPS 234 · 1 control

  • CPS234-P19 Policy Direction to All Responsible Parties
  • CFTC-SS-26 Own Resources or Contractual Arrangements to Meet the Recovery Objective

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.20 Addressing information security within supplier agreements

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 7.2.6 Contracts with PII processors
  • SA-4 Acquisition Process

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 12.8.2 Written agreements with TPSPs

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in Administrative

You are reading one control. How much of HIPAA Security Rule have you already done?

HIPAA Security Rule 164.308(b)(3) 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.

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