HIPAA Security RuleAWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

HIPAA Security Rule covers 34.9% of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

22 of the 63 controls in AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar are already satisfied by evidence you collected for HIPAA Security Rule. 41 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.

34.9%
of the target already covered
22
controls evidenced
41
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar your HIPAA Security Rule evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.

51 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner. Every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it. Ask and a practitioner will review this pair.

Where the gaps are

Coverage is never evenly spread. A source standard usually satisfies one part of a target almost completely and barely touches another, and which part is which is the thing worth knowing before you plan the work.

Detection3 of 4 evidenced, 1 to do
Identity & Access Management10 of 15 evidenced, 5 to do
Incident Response5 of 8 evidenced, 3 to do
Data Protection4 of 11 evidenced, 7 to do
Application Security0 of 8 evidenced, 8 to do
Security Foundations0 of 8 evidenced, 8 to do
Infrastructure Protection0 of 9 evidenced, 9 to do

Theme level, not control level, deliberately. The per-control list of what is evidenced and what is a gap is the report itself, so publishing it here would be publishing the thing being sold.

Claims that held

A sample. Each one names the control whose evidence does the work, the control it satisfies, and why.

164.308(a)(2)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP01argued against and upheld
Identify key personnel and external resources

A named security official carries responsibility for incident handling.

164.308(a)(6)(i)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP02argued against and upheld
Develop incident management plans

Documented security incident procedures for identifying and responding.

164.308(a)(6)(i)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP04argued against and upheld
Develop and test security incident response playbooks

Incident procedures set the prescriptive steps for anticipated scenarios.

164.312(a)(2)(ii)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP05argued against and upheld
Pre-provision access

Emergency access procedure prepares the access responders need.

164.308(a)(6)(ii)SEC 10: How do you anticipate, respond to, and recover from incidents? | SEC10-BP08argued against and upheld
Establish a framework for learning from incidents

Incidents and their outcomes documented, which is the review record.

164.312(d)SEC 2: How do you manage identities for people and machines? | SEC02-BP01argued against and upheld
Use strong sign-in mechanisms

Person or entity authentication verifies identity before access.

164.308(a)(5)(ii)(D)SEC 2: How do you manage identities for people and machines? | SEC02-BP03argued against and upheld
Store and use secrets securely

Creating, changing and safeguarding credentials is required.

164.312(a)(2)(i)SEC 2: How do you manage identities for people and machines? | SEC02-BP04argued against and upheld
Rely on a centralized identity provider

Unique user identification gives each user one tracked identity.

Claims that did not hold

Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.

The full report

Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.

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