Your Step-by-Step Guide to HITRUST Certification
From preparation to long-term compliance, use our checklist to navigate every stage of the certification process. Download the full checklist for a detailed look.
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Prepare for your HITRUST certification
Align your goals, find internal stakeholders, and educate your leadership.
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Begin your HITRUST certification
Identify your compliance needs, select the appropriate assessment type, and find an external assessor.
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Complete the Validated Assessment
Provide evidence to your external assessor, review and submit, and receive your assessment report.
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Ensure compliance over time and beyond
Continue monitoring to remediate gaps, plan for your next assessment, and leverage the business benefits of HITRUST certification.
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highest standards in information protection, we’re here to help.
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Benefits of HITRUST Certification
HITRUST certification provides the highest levels of trust and confidence for your organization to your customers and stakeholders. It demonstrates that your organization is meeting the highest standards in information protection.
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Commercial Compliance – satisfy customers, contractual requirements or preferences for HITRUST certification
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Market Access – gain access to new or additional markets that require or prefer HITRUST certification
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Market Differentiator – demonstrate highest level of security posture as a vendor or partner
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Risk Mitigation – adopt proven, repeatable, and measurable methods ensure significant risk reduction in certified environments (only 0.64% experienced breaches over two years)
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Cyber Insurance – access coverage with streamlined underwriting, enhanced coverage with better features, predictable renewals, and preferred rates
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Value Creation – improve potential valuation with investors and shareholders
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Liability Reduction – protect yourself and your organization by using a prescriptive, complete, and proven framework to plan, build, execute and validate your cybersecurity program instead of building your own
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Regulatory Compliance - add incremental controls for validation and reporting in the language of regulatory requirements and authoritative sources (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, etc.)
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AI Assurance – gain access to industry-first AI risk management and assurance programs
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Operational Integrations – leverage API integrations with major GRC, and security and compliance platforms to maximize efficiencies
Our VP of Adoption, Ryan Patrick, helps you understand the certification process.